Andreas Schleicher

Andreas Schleicher ( * 1964 in Hamburg) is a German statistician and educational researchers. He heads to the OECD, the Department of Statistics and Indicators in the Education Directorate. A wider audience than he is International Coordinator of the Program for International Student Assessment ( PISA ).

Curriculum vitae

Schleicher's elementary school teachers rated him in 1974 as " unsuitable for high school " a. His father, a professor of education, made ​​sure that the 10 -year-old still was able to visit a high school and sent him to the Waldorf School in Hamburg -Wandsbek. There Schleicher put the Abitur with a grade point average of 1.0. He studied physics in Hamburg and completed a postgraduate course in mathematics at Deakin University, which he graduated in 1992 with a Master of Science. He also worked on the TIMSS study.

From 1993 to 1994 he worked for the International Association for Educational Achievement at the Institute for Educational Research in the Netherlands. In 1994 he joined as a project manager at the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation ( CERI ) of the OECD in Paris. From 1995, he conceived there the PISA studies. In 1997, he rises to the Deputy Head of the Department for Education Statistics and Indicators ( Indicators and Analysis Division, Directorate for Education). In 2001 he presented the much acclaimed in Germany first PISA study. Since 2002 he is responsible for the PISA program and is involved in numerous other educational projects. Schleicher coordinated in this function also in 2013 published PIAAC.

Schleicher is married and has three children. His wife Maria Teresa Siniscalco is also an educational researcher; it was inter alia, technical director of PISA in Italy in 2003.

Criticism

Schleicher is a critic of the German education system. His criticisms here include, inter alia, the early selection of students with high homogeneity and low permeability between school types in higher grades. He also repeatedly criticized the low level of ability to transfer knowledge and the relationship between social background and educational success. The German reform efforts, he also repeatedly referred to as slow and inadequate.

Also on Schleicher even harsh criticism is practiced. He is accused of one-sided and simplistic to proceed in its analyzes, without considering the peculiarities of the German education system. Bavaria's Minister of Culture Siegfried Schneider ( CSU) threw Schleicher provide, inter alia, " mantra repeated and one-sided demand " for more high school graduates and college graduates to ignore the importance of vocational training in Germany with his perfect, although a far in Germany by OECD standards the average number located the 25- 64- year-old with a degree in secondary education concerning operative. This was even considered quitting the OECD, Schleicher should not resign.

After the preliminary announcement of the results of the second PISA survey in November 2007 again raised Ministers of the CDU / CSU-governed Länder in Germany calls for his resignation over Schleicher. This did not comply with the comment on the performance of German students of the vesting period. The OECD stood ostentatiously behind the then educational researchers. Schleicher had asked in interviews an improvement in Germany with regard to the non-comparability of the two PISA studies denied.

Honors and Awards

For his Master's thesis Schleicher was awarded the 1993 Bruce Choppin Award. Other awards followed. In April 2003 he received against the background of the broad discussion of the PISA study the Theodor Heuss Prize for " exemplary democratic engagement ".

2006 he was appointed the University of Heidelberg as Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Behavioural and Cultural Studies.