Tesis Magíster
Chilean Teachers Opinions About Skills And The Pisa Test
Autor
Soto-Lillo, Paula Cecilia
Institución
Resumen
The PISA test launch by the OECD measures skills for life and it is supposed to be an instrument for educational improvement. Despite that, in reality, it has become an instrument to classify the countries in a ranking in which Latin America is always at the bottom of the table and usually teachers are blamed for those results without considering their circumstances.
Considering the research on the field that shows that teachers’ beliefs influence the curriculum implementation, the purpose of this study was to explore Chilean teachers’ beliefs about skills for life in order to find out if they consider the skills measured by PISA as important, if they teach those skills, the problems they face when teaching skills, if they have any, and the level of awareness that they have about PISA. The participants were seventy teachers from a different area of the country who teach different subjects in different levels of the Chilean educational system. All this was done by using an online self-completion questionnaire that included closed and open-ended questions.
The outcomes of the questionnaire show that these Chilean teachers do consider skills important and they teach them but the reason to justify this are diverse. At the same time, they point out the multiple problems they think they face when teaching skills and the reasons they provide for not teaching some of them. Finally, it shows that although Chilean teachers know about the PISA test, this is not actually a benchmark, which means that even though they teach at some level the skills measured by PISA is not because they follow their guidelines. PFCHA-Becas PFCHA-Becas