EDUCATION MATTERS
As a result, some sections contain only common questions, while others may be omitted entirely in certain forms. This approach ensures that high-priority topics are addressed by a larger sample, allowing for more robust analysis. The form balancing, conducted in close collaboration with the Questionnaire Expert Group, the OECD Secretariat, and the Technical Advisory Group, considered multiple factors— such as the number of pages, items, words, and response times from the field trial. Another IEA-led innovation for the 2024 cycle was the inclusion of an open-ended question (on one of the three forms) asking teachers to voice their most important recommendation for educational policy. The post-collection processing used human-supervised machine translation from the source languages to English, including checks for construct-irrelevant or identifying texts in collaboration with national centers. This rich database contains tens of thousands of insights from teachers from more than 50 countries and will soon be analyzed using AI and LLM- driven topic extraction, modelling and sentiment analyses— approaches not previously feasible without resource intensive and manual qualitative data analysis. NEW ROLES IN PIAAC CYCLE 2 ROUND 2 A major milestone for ISU is its expanded role in the second round of PIAAC Cycle 2. Historically, IEA has been responsible for data management in PIAAC. In Cycle 2, IEA already developed, in cooperation with consortium partners, the PIAAC dashboard as a real-time monitoring tool establishing key performance indicators for production and interviewer quality. In this new round, however, IEA will now assume full responsibility for survey operations as well as sampling, marking an exciting development and diversification in its international portfolio. Currently, the ISU survey operations team is actively building capacity in this new area, reviewing PIAAC standards, and preparing for the 2026 summer interviewer training. Meanwhile, the data management team is setting up the project’s initial phases, including preparing presentations for the National Project Managers meeting in October 2025 and coordinating with new ETS project management and IT teams. Concurrently, the Sampling Unit is expanding its expertise in household survey sampling and preparing for the Field Test Sampling Workshop, also scheduled for October 2025. ■
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