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With such a low immigration, the pisa sample tended to be more uniform in Finland which introduced a distortion with other countries having more immigration but
by IdontRememberIt 9y ago
With such a low immigration, the pisa sample tended to be more uniform in Finland which introduced a distortion with other countries having more immigration but a better teaching system. Recent immigration increase has lowered the last Finnish pisa rankings. So, of course, some methods are innovative, but being an example is maybe overrated. Results will be "assessable" only when these kids will have a professional path.
- zurn 9y agoI'm sure the problem is tractable statistically, by normalizing some variables related to immigration.
- tuukkah 9y agoYou are simply mistaken: The immigration increase is so recent and so small compared to the population size that it can't have lowered the country's rankings. Pasi Sahlberg is the expert to listen to: "I don’t believe that the PISA results in Finland have anything to do with the language or the fact that Finland is more homogenous than others[.] Of course Finland has had fewer non-Finnish speakers or children who were born outside of Finland, but that cannot explain the progress in previous PISA studies or the declining results in maths." http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finlands_school_system_the_new_nokia/6965192 http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finlands_school_system_the... EDIT: Same misconception propagated by BBC in the article here (for "balance"?): "Success has been attributed to a traditionally high regard for teaching and reading, as well as a small, largely homogenous population" How would population size contribute to the averages? Who has attributed? In the BBC archives I can find that claim by some right-wing British think tank.