Andreas Schleicher is Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division at the Directorate for Education of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Schleicher has previously been Deputy Head of the Statistics and Indicators Division of the OECD Directorate for Education, Employment, Labor and Social Affairs, Analyst at the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), Director for analysis at the International Association for Educational Achievement (IEA) and Senior lecturer at the Institute for Educational Research in the Netherlands (SVO), International Coordinator for the IEA Reading Literacy Study and Director of the IEA Data Processing Centre, Hamburg, Germany and Project manager for the development of an information management system for quality control and quality improvement at Philips Medical Systems in Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Hamburg, Germany; and Milano, Italy (mostly part-time). Since 2006 he has hold an honorary professorship at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Schleicher is best known for his development, international coordination and management of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), an evaluation system through which the OECD countries assess and compare student knowledge and skills in key subject areas on a three-yearly basis. For this work, he was awarded the Theodor Heuss Prize 2003. He is in charge of the extending of this assessment to now 30 non-Member countries. Additionally, Schleicher contributes to the development of OECD’s education strategies, policies, practices and management. He takes responsibility for the development, international coordination and management of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), through which OECD countries seek to assess key skills needed for adults to participate in society and economies to prosper, measure their impact on individual and aggregate social and economic outcomes, and help governments better understand how education and training systems can nurture these skills. He manages the OECD education indicators program (INES) through which the OECD evaluates the quality of learning outcomes, the policy levers and contextual factors that shape these outcomes, and the broader private and social returns that accrue to investments in education, from early childhood education up to continuing education and training in adult life. And he coordinates the comparative quantitative research with other international organizations (EUROSTAT, ILO, UNESCO, World Bank).
Schleicher is Author and Chief Editor both of Knowledge and Skills for Life, the study reporting the first results from the OECD Program for International Student Assessment (OECD 2001), and of Education at a Glance, the major annual work on cross-country education indicators, both of which have been selected as OECD Flagship publications. He has also written and edited numerous further education publications at the OECD and elsewhere, including contributions to the TIMSS reports. The participation of Schleicher as an external advisors to the network gives the network a major possibility to co-ordinate its work with the crucial work at the OECD, to disseminate its research to the OECD and to receive feedback from the leading institution on internationally comparative measures of characteristics of education systems.
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