Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-2024

Abstract

The Philippine Department of Education, despite seeing minimal improvements in the country’s score and rankings in the recent cycles of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) such as TIMSS and PISA, maintained that it shall continue to participate in ILSAs to monitor the progress of educational effectiveness and benchmark with other countries by observing and adopting commendable practices. While legislators and other stakeholders push for increased financial resources in the education sector as part of the country’s preparations for upcoming ILSAs, one crucial aspect that is largely overlooked is teacher training. This paper presents a viable yet contentious way of upskilling teachers – one that leverages ILSAs by training teachers to write or construct prototype items inspired by those in ILSAs. In this study, nine high school mathematics teachers participated in an item-writing seminar-workshop on constructing PISA-like items. As part of their in-service training, they were required to produce eight items each as individual outputs, which were then reviewed by external experts for feedback. Results from the experts’ qualitative and quantitative feedback showed that the teachers mostly produced satisfactory items that comply with the constraints posed by the PISA mathematics assessment framework, despite their initial difficulties in understanding it and its cognitive categories.

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Presented during the 2024 National Conference on Educational Measurement and Evaluation (NCEME), which was hosted by the Philippine Educational Measurement and Evaluation Association (PEMEA) and held in De La Salle University – Manila, on August 29-31, 2024. This paper received the Best Scientific Paper award, which was awarded to seven out of the 45 papers in the conference.

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