FreshEd with Will Brehm is a weekly podcast that aims to make complex ideas in educational research easily understood. FreshEd partnered with the Office of Global Engagement to produce a mini-series featuring speakers from the CIES Symposium as well as additional content about international large-scale assessments and global learning metrics:
- Learning as Development (Dan Wagner)
- The past and future of SDG 4.7 (Aaron Benavot)
- Measuring and Monitoring the SDGs (Silvia Montoya)
- Challenging the commonplace relationship between test scores and GDP (Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye)
- The power and perils of international large scale assessments (Gustavo Fischman)
- Schools, skills and economic growth (Eric A. Hanushek)
- Seeing Like PISA (Radhika Gorur)
- PISA, policy referencing, and pantomime (Bob Adamson)
- The problems with outcome-based approaches to education (David Edwards)
- The cultural insensitivity of global learning metrics (Inés Dussel)
- The meaning of “learning” in Global Learning Metrics (Supriya Baily)
- The history and development of international assessments (Dirk Hastedt)
- Setting the stage for the CIES Symposium on Global Learning Metrics (Karen Mundy)
- CIES Symposium Day 1: A missing voice?
- CIES Symposium Day 2: Wrap up with Pasi Sahlberg
Laboratory of International Assessment Studies
The Laboratory of International Assessment Studies is an innovative inter-disciplinary network for conversations surrounding the use of international education assessment data. It is co-directed by Innovations in Global Learning Metrics symposium participants Radhika Gorur (DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Australia) and Sam Sellar (Reader in Education Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University) as well as Mary Hamilton, Bryan Maddox, and Camilla Addey.