Conference Venue:

Teatro Chico (located at Almirante Díaz Pimienta street (see tha map), number 1 in Santa Cruz de La Palma)

Posters Exhibition:

Casino (Círculo de Instrucción y Recreo) de Santa Cruz de La Palma (located at Anselmo Pérez de Brito street, 15).

 

Monday, November 23

Morning Session

8.30 – 10.00 Registration.

10.00 – 10.30 Opening of the International Symposium “PISA under Examination” of CESE.

10.30 – 12.00 I Opening Address: Ulf P. Lundgren: "PISA as a Political Instrument: The History behind the Formulating of the PISA Programme".

12.00 – 12.30 Break.

12.30 – 14.00 II Opening Address: Thomas S. Popkewitz, “PISA: Numbers, Standardizing Conduct, and the Alchemy of School Subjects”.

Afternoon Session

The Comparative Challenges of the OCDE PISA Programme

16.00 – 17.30 Presentation and discussion: Clara Morgan: "The OECD PISA: Unravelling a Knowledge Network".

17.30 – 18.00 Break.

18.00 – 20.00 Presentation of the posters to be exhibited in the international symposium by their authors.

Tuesday, November 24

Morning Session

PISA and School Knowledge

9.30 – 11.00 Presentation and discussion: David Berliner: "Contexts of High-Stakes Testing: The 'Quality' of the PISA Results and the Challenges of PISA to Definitions of School Knowledge".

11.00 – 11.30 Break.

12.00 – 13.30 Presentation and discussion: David Scott: "PISA, International Comparisons and Epistemic Paradoxes".

Afternoon Session

The Assessment of PISA, School Effectiveness and the Socio-cultural Dimension

16:00 – 17:30  Presentation and discussion: Katharina Maag Merki, "Central Exit Exams as an Instrument to Improve School Effectiveness? Results of an Empirical Study in Germany”
17:30 – 18:00  Break
18:00 – 19:30  Presentation and discussion: Gerry Mac Ruairc, “‘Ticking the Boxes’. A Critical Examination of the Process of PISA Testing from a Student Perspective”

Wednesday, November 25

Morning Session

PISA and the Immigrant Student Question

9:30 – 11:00  Presentation and discussion: Petra Stanat, “Conditions of Immigrant Students’ Educational Success – Evidence from PISA”
11:00 – 11:30  Break
12:00 – 13:30  Presentation and discussion: Julio Carabaña, “Why Do the Results of the Immigrant Students in PISA Depend so Much of the Origin of their Countries?”

Afternoon Session

Extreme Visions of PISA: Germany and Finland

16:00 – 17:30  Presentation and discussion: Hannu Simola, "Educational Policy and Contingency: Belief, Status and Trust behind the Finnish PISA Miracle"
17:30 – 18:00  Break
18:00 – 19:30  Presentation and discussion: Daniel Troehler, "The Discomposure of the Inward Certainty: Germany's Double Discontent with PISA and its Results"

Thursday, November 26

Morning Session

The Economic Dimension of PISA and the Challenge of Competences

9:30 – 11:00  Presentation and discussion: Javier Salinas & Daniel Santín, “Are You on the Educational Production Frontier? Some Economic Insights on Efficiency from PISA"
11:00 – 11:30  Break
11:30 -13:00 horas  Presentation and discussion: Donatella Palomba & Anselmo R. Paolone, “Competencies vs. Interculturality: Student Exchanges in the Age of PISA”

Afternoon Session

The PISA Debate in the Spanish Speaking World

16:30 – 18:00  Presentation and discussion: Antonio Bolívar, “The Dissatisfaction of the Losers: The Public Discourse of PISA in the Spanish Speaking World”
18:00 – 18:30 Break
18:30 – 19:30  Closing Address: Robert Cowen, “Currencies, Contexts and Cassandra: Whose Truths are True and Where Does Policy Go from Here?”
19:30 – 20:00  Closing of the International Symposium “PISA under Examination” of CESE: Reading of Conclusions.