TED Video

Link to TED Video:
http://www.ted.com/talks/andreas_schleicher_use_data_to_build_better_schools.html?quote=2053

The video “Andreas Schleicher: Use data to build better schools” is about how a country’s educations system may benefit from the PISA (OECD Programme for International Student Assessment) when developing education policies. Mr. Schleicher argues PISA is an innovative way to test people’s skills and knowledge by testing them with problems that would require that they actually understood the material, and if they are able to apply it in problems in which they have never been tested before; PISA tests the students’ abilities to adapt to new situations. This test is able to measure if a country is truly able to say that it provides “equal education” regardless of a student’s ethnic and economic background. The data collected from the PISA is able to provide data about which countries are providing excellent education to every student and the factors that contribute to this (selection of the best teachers, money spent on educational programs, and time spent on school), and from this, other countries may benefit by adapting the same model these successful countries have. Mr. Schleicher claims that common standardized test do not really provide any accurate information about a country’s education system. Our group topic relates to this video in the sense that the current standardized tests must be modified or eliminated as these do not prove what students really know and that in fact many are negatively affected by them. For our presentation, we plan to present a little bit of background information about our topic and the interviews we conducted for our documentary. After that, we will provide the steps we took to make the documentary and then a brief conclusion that summarizes our topic. Also, we plan to use plenty of visual to make sure we attract the audience’s attention.