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Is the test designed for Australian students?

April 26, 2017Australian designed students Test

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Is the test designed for Australian students?

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The ISA is designed specifically for students in international schools worldwide. A few internationally-minded schools in Australia have taken the ISA each year: in 2008-9, for example, of the 218 schools that participated, only one was located in Australia. Although there are some Australian-developed educational theories embedded in the ISA, such as developmental assessment, and the test is written and analysed in Australia, the ISA is emphatically an assessment conceived on international principles, based on the frameworks and scales of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that is developed and overseen by international experts in mathematics and language education.