What pupils perceive as culture has little to do with their lives. This is one of the major results of our analysis on "How students perceive and use cultural offerings". The whole text is part of the complementary PISA surveys in Austria which have now been published in a comprehensive volume (in German) at Waxmann.
Critics of PISA studies stress the emergence of an education system that focuses only on key lesson which are comparable internationally without large effort.
However there are some possibilities to extend the PISA evaluation system to arts education.
In 2009 EDUCULT was assigned a study by BIFIE Salzburg to evaluate pupil´s participation in arts and cultural education.
Keynotes of the questionnaire are:
During the PISA survey in 2009 the questionnaire was filled out by 1562 pupils between the age of 15 and 16 from 150 different schools.
Duration: January 2008 to December 2011
Client: BIFIE Salzburg
Contact: tanja.nagel(at)educult.at
Salon of Cultures