Interpreting PISA – Understanding national educational improvement

Portugal has been highlighted as a success story in curriculum and educational reform, in particular due to the country’s leap in PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) test scores between 2006 and 2015. During the latter half of this period Portugal was able to achieve an outcome that many countries aspire to but few attain: increasing the share of top performers while simultaneously decreasing the share of low performers.

Professor Nuno Crato OIH who served as the country’s Minister of Education and Science in Portugal from 2011 to 2015, shared his insights into the country’s success story at the seminar which attracted hundreds of participants from 59 countries.

Watch the recording here.