Abstract
AbstractTaiwan has, from 2006, participated in five Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) surveys. This chapter discusses Taiwan’s performance in PISA and its implications. At first, the education system and the process of educational reform in Taiwan were described. Then Taiwan’s performances for reading, math, and science in PISA were delineated. Taiwanese students have had consistently excellent performance for math and science; its reading performance, although not as outstanding as those for math and science, has improved significantly from 2009 to 2018. The gender gap in reading, in favour of female students, has narrowed, and the gender gap in math and science has been small. Educational equity, especially between rural and urban students, has also improved from 2006 to 2018. The proportion of high performers in reading and the proportion of low performers in reading, math, and science has increased from 2006 to 2018, while the proportions of top performers in math and science have decreased. These findings are interpreted from the perspectives of cultural beliefs, changes in the education system and national assessment, government investment in the related domains, and the nature of the PISA assessment.
Highlights
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), organized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), is a crossnational survey conducted once every 3 years
OECD (2013, 2014), PISA 2012 Database, Tables I.2.2a, I.4.2a and I.5.2a OECD (2010a, b), PISA 2009 Database, Tables I.2.2, I.3.2 and I.3.5 OECD (2007a, b), PISA 2006 Database, Tables 2.1b, 6.1b and 6.2b students and 14.2% of female students read below level 2; these figures were lower than the corresponding 2018 OECD averages of 27.6% and 17.5%, respectively
These figures were greater than those for low-performing Taiwanese students in PISA 2009: 20.7% of male students read below level 2 in 2009 compared with 21.3% in 2018, and 9.5% of female students read below level 2 in 2009 compared with a significant increase to 14.2% in 2018
Summary
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), organized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), is a crossnational survey conducted once every 3 years. Through evaluating the performance of students in foundational competence domains and gathering information on students, teachers, and schools, PISA provides an overall score that describes how well a country’s students are performing This score aids countries in the adjustment of their educational policies, and educational decision makers attach great importance to PISA: the results allow such decision makers to compare their students’ performance with those in other PISA-participating countries and economies, helping them better understand the future competitiveness of their students. Taiwan’s results in the five PISA surveys (2006–2018) are discussed, with regard to trends, gender difference, social equity in learning outcomes, and changes in top and low performers It concludes with implications and policy recommendations
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