PISA FOR DEVELOPMENT Technical Workshop Out-of-School 15 year old 1 st and 2 nd October 2014 OECD Secretariat 1

Day One: Discussion of main technical challenges and options 2.A Defining out-of-school status Counting and locating out-of-school 15 year olds in the context of PISA for Development countries – constructing a sampling frame. 2 Agenda for the Workshop on OOS 15 year olds

2. B Finding and identifying: sampling 2.C Review of evidence and relevant studies on out-of-school children. Discussion of alternative and complementary approaches to sampling and surveying. 3 Agenda for the Workshop on OOS 15 year olds

2.D Assessment of out-of-school 15 year olds and treatment of knowledge, skills and competencies, particularly in reading and numeracy/mathematics. Strategies for persuading out-of-school youth to participate in the assessment, administering a test, and incorporating data in analysis. 4 Agenda for the Workshop on OOS 15 year old

Day Two: Discussion of main technical challenges to be addressed 2.E Development of a framework and instruments for cognitive assessment. Implementation of manually adaptive testing methods using gateways, filters and/or channels. The cases of the PISA for Development countries. Proposed way forward for the project. 5 Agenda for the Workshop on OOS 15 year old

2.F Review of evidence and approaches for the collection of contextual data on OOS children. Enhancement and adaptation of PISA constructs and indices. 2.G Summary of viable approaches and technical recommendations. Agreed revisions for the expert paper. 6 Agenda for the Workshop on OOS 15 year old

Day Two: Components of the ToR, discussion of the draft and further development of the technical strand. 3.A Presentation and discussion of the draft components of the ToR for the International Contractor. 3.B Confirmation of agreements on expert paper, draft components of the ToR for the International Contractor and further development of the technical strand, next steps. 7 Agenda for the Workshop on OOS 15 year old