Designing Pisa-like mathematics problem using a COVID-19 transmission map context

Abstract

Regarding consistently poor outcomes in all PISA tests, the launch of minimum competency assessment (MCA) in 2021 creates concerns among students and educators regarding how learning will occur in the classroom. For this reason, this research aims to produce valid and practical PISA-like potentially affecting mathematics literacy to prepare them for MCA. Design research in the form of development studies is utilized in conjunction with online learning platforms. The findings reveal that the resulting PISA-like characteristics include the content of changes and relationships explored, the context used in the COVID-19 transmission map, and the PISA-like difficulty level at the reasoning level. To conclude, students worked on PISA-like relating change and relationship using COVID-19 transmission map context by predicting and interpreting information relevant to a given situation.