Currently global assessment of national education systems is becoming more
urgent than a decade ago and not only developed countries, but also developing countries
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started to try on international education assessment systems in order to know the state of
national education development and become more integrated into Global education
system. One of the highly appreciated education assessment system is PISA which was
came into being by 2000. Nowadays more than 70 countries participate PISA education
assessment once in a three year. Last PISA education assessment was launched in 2018
and many Asian developing countries like China, Singapore, Republic of Korea, Vietnam
and others took top places in PISA 2018.
In this research Indian experience of joining PISA will be studied and the reasons
of Indian rejoining in PISA. So we will study the factors and reasons of Indian
participation in PISA. By researching some policy recommendations may be given.
On 28
th
of January in 2019 Indian minister of developing human resources signed
an agreement with Organization for Economic cooperation and development (OECD) for
participating India in PISA 2021. Indian Minister Prakash Javadekar told that Assessment
of students will be conducted offline and questions will only relate exclusively to India
[7].
Indian government announced its intention to return to the international student
assessment program, or PISA, after a 10-year absence. The country dropped out of the
ranking conducted by the Organization for economic cooperation and development in
2009, taking 72
nd
place out of 74 countries [5].
As Indian officials explained Indian failure in 2009 that India, not only,
competed with high-income OECD countries, but also with non-OECD countries,
including Brazil, China, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The government said the test
was unfair because it was not sufficiently adapted to the Indian context [4].
The OECD and India have now agreed to try again, and a group of 15-year-olds
from schools in Chandigarh, the capital of the Northern Indian States of Punjab and
Haryana, will be assessed by PISA experts in 2021. India wants students from its Central
government school system, known as Kendriya Vidyalaya and Navodaya Vidyalaya, to
pass the test [6].
From signing the agreement with OECD, India started to cooperate with PISA in
order to get high results in PISA 2021. Within the agreement OECD official proposed to
teacher training and to send team of teachers to Paris for whole PISA exam processes [2].
Indian government have recently adopted new education policy, where main focus
given into vocational education – there will be ten bag-less days – school intern for pupils.
Besides, there is an important principle for subject content, which should focus on key
concepts, ideas, applications, and problem-solving [3]. In era of google there is urgent
need for improving competence-based education.
By learning Indian experience following recommendations have been formed: