What is Large-Scale Assessment

This chapter examines curriculum supporting global competence and different perspectives included in the OECD's PISA 2018 Global Competence large-scale assessment. The nine perspectives of global competence covered were students' interest in learning about other cultures, awareness of global issues, attitudes toward immigrants, respect for people from other cultures, ability to understand the perspectives of others, self-efficacy in the context of global competence, sense of agency regarding global issues, awareness of intercultural communication, and cognitive adaptability. The responses of 180,114 students from the 26 OECD countries that completed the PISA 2018 global competence section were included as a sample. The empirical results indicate that the more curriculum covers global competence-related topics, the better it predicts different perspectives of global competence. The tested hypotheses revealed a significant relationship between curriculum supporting global competence and each studied perspective of global competence.