What does PISA for Schools reveal about an education network in Brazil? The experience of the Fundação Cesgranrio in 2019

Abstract

PISA for Schools, a student assessment promoted by the OECD, was applied in Brazil in two separate years, 2017 and 2019. The 2019 edition of PISA for Schools was administered, only by computer, to a population of 11,484 students from 229 public and private schools. PISA for Schools assesses three areas of knowledge with items based on the PISA frameworks. The results obtained by the schools of five education networks, public and private, were aggregated in a set of tables that allowed the comparative analysis of the students’ performance between the networks and with variables selected in the study. As a result, there was a variability in the performance of students in the Networks, explained largely by their socioeconomic and cultural characteristics, teaching practices and disciplinary climate. We also investigated three aspects that have been dealt with in the most current literature, and among them, the practice of bullying, the phenomenon of repetition and the importance of socioemotional skills in the school context.