Reporting evaluation findings to policy makers

At the June 2003 Network meeting in Athens it was decided to develop a framework for
reporting international evaluation findings to policy makers in order to prepare short national
case studies on this topic. The framework consists of the 9 questions, given below,
based on the publication of the TIMSS and/or PISA 2000 results.

Network members for the following 12 countries submitted their answers: Austria (A),
Belgium, FL (B), England (E), France (F), Germany (G), Ireland (IR), Luxemburg (L),
Netherlands (NL), Norway (NO), Scotland (SC), Sweden (SW) and Spain (SP).

Following a full discussion among all the Network members at the December 2003 Rome
meeting of the Network the conclusions were summarised and are presented in this report.
In the appendix the case studies prepared by the 12 countries are given. It should
be stressed that the answers provided describe the views of experts working in that professional
field but are not official national statements.