John Jerrim - PISA 2025 results

Actually, no, I do know on the first one, a really interesting one using PISA data, where we basically look at...

The change or the apparent change in kids skipping school over time since the pandemic.

Why I'm raising that one is there's a really interesting slash nerdy methodological thing in there, which changed only in a few countries.

They changed the word in one round from skip school to missed school.

And now we know skipping school is very different to missing school.

And actually what you see very clearly in that data, which wasn't really documented anywhere, it took real detective work, was it had a big impact on the results to the point that there were some people that went and done some analysis and got it completely wrong, including some of the OECD, because they hadn't spotted it.

And so it was a really interesting paper.

Also, we ended up using large language models, speaking to your second point to say, how Hey, chat GBT, do you notice any problem here? And we couldn't do it to find the problem that we had spotted.

In fact, fed us back the usual bullshit that AI does.

I basically said, yeah, everything's fine.

You can go and look at trends in this measure.

So that was actually one of the most interesting ones that we've done over recent periods.

In

terms of

AI more

generally, I think it's really interesting because over the last few years, everyone started to realize What can I use this for and what can't I use it for and how I found it really useful recently is checking stuff.

The stuff that I do, does this make sense? What edits would you make here? Then I go back and think, shall I make that edit or not? Some people I know are using it to do coding and using codecs and crawls for their coding or whatever.

I'm not quite there yet because I don't have the, quite the trust yet to go out and farm it out to do it.

And when I have seen it done.

Stuff that would take me 10, 20 lines of code, it comes back with five or six pages.

I haven't got quite there yet, but definitely it's made me more productive, but also more accurate as well.

And I think people are underestimating how useful it is for

that purpose.

It's interesting the capacity that it has to proofread something with a degree of patience and attention that no human can achieve.

But like you, I've been using it to get feedback on bits and pieces of work and send it to writing.