The Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) is led by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in partnership with participating countries, international teachers’ unions, recognized research centers in the field of education and vocational training, as well as the European Commission. It is the largest international study dedicated to teachers and their working conditions. This survey allows for a comparison of the education systems of participating countries by providing teachers and school principals with the opportunity to express their views on their teaching practices and professional conditions. A large amount of data is collected through questionnaires filled out by teachers and school principals.
For the first time, Morocco is participating, alongside more than fifty countries, in this international study on teaching and learning, led by the OECD, with joint leadership between the National Body for Evaluation under the Higher Council for Education, Training, and Scientific Research, and the Ministry of National Education, Preschool, and Sports.
General goals
TALIS aims to:
- Obtain data to invest when developing public policies aimed at reforming the education system;
- Allow teachers and school directors to express their views on teaching and learning matters, notably those concerning developing, enhancing, and improving teachers’ professional performance and its conditions and requirements;
- Obtain internationally comparable data that will enable the participating countries to learn from each other’s experiences. Also, the data collected will allow decision-makers and stakeholders to learn from different approaches that contribute to stimulating thinking on teaching practices and developing the teaching profession for effective teaching and learning.
Specific goals
TALIS 2024 seeks to accurately depict the teaching profession and educational leadership, as well as collect pertinent data on educational policies, with a particular focus on students’ learning.
TALIS navigates the specific aspects of the teaching body, educational institutions, teachers’ practices, and classroom environment, as well as the importance of educational leadership. Moreover, it delves into the teaching methods to better understand the successes and challenges teachers and school directors face. For Morocco, the Survey’s general goals include the following:
- Accessing the latest knowledge on research-based teaching practices on an international scale;
- Evaluating the educational policy regarding the teaching profession;
- Offering knowledge on the teaching profession for effective educational policies;
- Identifying initial and continuous training needs with teachers’ active participation;
- Identifying factors that strongly impact students’ learning;
- Learning from the participating countries’ best practices;
- Sharing the experience of the National Body for Evaluation within the Council with the international community for research and the evaluation of educational policies.
The current TALIS cycle tackles four broad areas of content related to teaching and learning:
The institutional environment, professional teaching and learning, teachers’ knowledge development, professional and pedagogical practices, professional perceptions, and contemporary issues in educational systems, including diversity and equity, students’ social and emotional learning, and uses of technology.
The data are collected through questionnaires completed by teachers, school principals, and directors:
- Main survey questionnaires at the primary and secondary school levels;
- Questionnaire on teachers’ pedagogical knowledge at the middle school level;
- Questionnaires on preschool education.
The main survey concerns lower secondary education. TALIS enables countries wishing to deepen their research to expand the survey to include primary, upper secondary, and preschool education.
It is worth noting that educational institutions were selected based on teaching modes (public/private) from all regions of Morocco, ensuring coverage of both urban and rural areas, as well as institutions from the informal sector and schools involved in partnerships for preschool education, in order to achieve national representation by region.
According to Law n° 08-09 on individuals’ personal data protection during processing the Higher Council for Education, Training, and Scientific Research complies with, and which ensures strict confidentiality of the personal information and data collected, and in view of the statistical data protection laws followed by research centers in the participating countries and of the OECD, all statistical and personal data gathered are confidential, safeguarded, and will solely be used for the purposes of the Survey in question.
