Improving Equity

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Improving Equity Quality of Education in
Thailand

• Using the results from International and
• National Assessments PISA , TIMSS,
  National Test

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Summary

• In conclusion
• The youth of Thailand are not been well prepared
  to meet the challenges in later life and to
  compete in the international regional
  community.
• The Impact of school factors gives information to
  the system level where to attack the weakness.

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Findings From PISA

• The following slides summarize schools factors
  that associated with science performance
• Only some selected factors, and their gross
  effect on performance are presented.

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School factors PISA looked at

• Admitting, selecting and grouping
• School management and funding
• Parental pressure and choice
• Accountability policy
• School autonomy
• School resources

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School management

• At School level
• Ability grouping for all subjects associates with
  negative effect (-10 score points)
• Student learning time for regular lessons in
  school ( 14 score points/ 1 additional hour)
• Student learning time for-out-of-school lessons,
  e.g. coaching schools(-13 score points/ 1
  additional hour)
• Index of school activity to promote learning (7
  score points/ 1 S.D. of the index)

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Out of school time classes with non school
teachers
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Out of school time classes with school teachers

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Effect of Resources and Funding

• More public funding- negative effect (- 3 score
  points for additional 10 of public funding)
• Lack of qualified teachers (-3.5 points for
  additional unit of index)
• Availability of quality educational resources
  ( 3.9 score points for additional unit of index)

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At System level
Data say that Education systems where

• Schools have higher degree of autonomy in
  budgeting ( 22.5 score points for one additional
  standard deviation).
• Schools have higher degree of autonomy in
  educational content ( 20 score points for one
  additional standard deviation).

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Implication for policyImproving equity/ Raising
performance

• Target factors that have impact on learning
  quality. Use research results as the base for
  decision making.
• Target low performance low performing schools /
  low- performing students within schools
• Targeting disadvantage children / disadvantage
  schools More assistant scheme is needed to gear
  towards this target.
• Allocation of schools resources (with precaution
  that computers do not show positive enhancing on
  learning.)

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Resource Do we target the disadvantage?
Data show that Big schools shortage decreased
small schools unchanged
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Thailand Top and Bottom performersFrom PISA
2000 to PISA 2006
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From the Studies of Computer for Instruction

• Results did not support the positive impact of
  computer on learning.
• Students most frequent use of computers did not
  score higher than the least users.

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ICT Performance (OECD)
Source OECD (2005) Are students ready for a
technology-rich world? What PISA studies tell us,
Figure 4.6, p.65.
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Frequent use of computer and score (Thailand)
The moderate users scored higher
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Implication for policy

• At system level What is needed to rethink !
• Schools autonomy in budgeting education
  content.
• Standards for all students. All students need
  to master reading and mathematics which are
  basics to any other learning.
• Quality time

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Where do we go from here?
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Will we see rainbow day after day? Here was she
said to me
Que sera, sera! What ever will be, will be. The
futures not ours to see. Que sera, sera!
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Thank you !
Sa-buy-dee Thailand
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Back up slides

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PISA 2006East Asian countries performed on top
group. But Thailand, Indonesia were on lower end
0f the scale.
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Change in Reading performance from PISA 2000 to
PISA 2006
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Change in Mathematics performance
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Change in Science performance
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By TIMSS results (Science mathematics) the
countries are separated High and low performers
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TIMSS Math from 1995 - 2007
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TIMSS Science from 1995 2007Countries in Asia
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Trend Thailand compared to Hong Kong (in TIMSS
1995 the two performed equally well)
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Thailand The National tests from 2000 to 2008
show no improvement but decline
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Thank you !
Sa-buy-dee Thailand