
The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment tests not mere regurgitation, but capacity for analysis, thinking and evidence-based deductions. In 2019, Australia scored its worst result since the tests began in the early 2000s. At the same time we have a growing incapacity of our political leaders to think, analyse or draw evidence-based conclusions.
They grab at any straw to bolster the ideology of their side irrespective of evidence or logic.
Indeed, Education Minister Dan Tehan did this very thing when looking at what should be done about the PISA results.
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