International large-scale assessment studies and educational policy-making in Chile: contexts and dimensions of influence

Chile: The Challenge of Providing Relevant Information from ILSA Studies for the Improvement of Educational Quality

“…Mostly led by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), these studies have been providing information to the Chilean education system related to mathematics, natural sciences, reading literacy, financial literacy, civic education, writing, computer literacy, among others. Chile's systematic participation's fundamental purpose is to acquire knowledge and international perspective, otherwise not available, to better guide systems, institutions, and practices, deemed of strategic importance to the country's developmental goals (Cox and Meckes 2016).…”

“…13 Among other documentation and inputs (social demands started by secondary students, curriculum analysis, studies of relevance, surveys, revision of other countries' curricula, public consultations), the ILSA studies available up to that time were considered. This adjustment explicitly incorporated the information, both results and frameworks, obtained in TIMSS for Mathematics and Science, PISA for Language and Communication, and ICCS for Citizen training (Cox and Meckes 2016).…”

“…For example, "Earth sciences" was added to the contents of primary and secondary education in Natural Science, and civic contents related to formal political participation and relationships with the political system were added to the History and Social Sciences curricula. (Cox and Meckes 2016).…”

“…For example, the Citizen Education Law 16 was inspired by the poor results about Chilean students' civic knowledge, as shown by the ICCS 2009 study. With this base, on May 15, 2015, the President argued for the need for legislation to mandate every school in the country to define and implement a plan for citizenship formation (Cox and Meckes 2016), and during that year, the chamber of deputies submitted a bill of law to establish the obligation of every school to have a citizenship education plan. ICCS 2009 conclusions were presented as background and proof of this subjetc's lack of presence during school education (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile (2018).…”

Evaluaciones Internacionales a gran escala y ciudadanía. Explorando la relación entre políticas y ICCS en Chile (2009-2016)

“…La relación entre las ILSA y las políticas educativas en Chile ha sido recientemente analizada. Así, por ejemplo, se ha evidenciado como los resultados de PISA han sido utilizados tanto para entender y describir los "avances" y "estancamientos" del sistema escolar durante las tres primeras décadas desde el retorno a la democracia (Cox y Meckes, 2016). Adicionalmente, los datos de PISA (y en menor medida de TIMSS) han servido como fundamento para el desarrollo de reformas relevantes, como la Ley General de Educación en 2009 o la Ley de Inclusión Escolar en 2015 (Alarcón, 2020;Parcerisa y Verger, 2019).…”