On the afternoon of May 23, 2018, sponsored by the Office of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Education in East China Normal University, the lecture, ” PISA Science Secondary Analysis: What Can We Learn from Students’ Views?”, was held in Room 104, Liberal Arts Building, and was given by Associate Professor Florence Le Hebel from Université Claude Bernard Lyon in France. All students majoring in Chinese and French Education at East China Normal University and also a number of teachers and students from other faculties attended the lecture. The lecture was presided by Bai Yun, director of the Instruction Affairs Division of the Faculty.
Florence Le Hebel, Associate Professor from Université Claude Bernard Lyon in France
Florence Le Hebel briefly summarized the history of PISA international assessment and showed the overall picture of 2006 and 2015 PISA scientific assessments of France by combining the research results of PISA science secondary analysis of the past 10 years. The average score of PISA in France in 2006 and 2015 was significantly higher than the OECD’s. Compared with other OECD countries, the socioeconomic and cultural status of French students had a great impact on their performance in the PISA test. Hebel pointed that there were great differences in the definition of scientific literacy between PISA 2006 and PISA 2015. The former emphasized the ability to acquire procedural knowledge while the latter emphasized the ability to acquire cognitive knowledge. From the perspective of the PISA test and the understanding of middle school students, Hebel analyzed the possible problems and countermeasures in PISA scientific evaluation and introduced how to predict students’ potential difficulties and strategies in solving the PISA scientific task. The speech received a large applause from teachers and students while frequent interaction and heated discussions also occurred.
Since the educational discipline joined the Sino-French training program of the postgraduate students in 2014, the French Normal University Group has sent experts specializing in educational research every year to set up professional courses for Sino-French training of postgraduate students. The group has also been invited to hold academic lectures for teachers and students to conduct in-depth exchanges to further promote the joint training and cooperation between Chinese and French postgraduate students and to improve the quality and international level of postgraduate training.
