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Renae Sze Ming Loh; Gerbert Kraaykamp; Margriet van Hek – European Educational Research Journal, 2025
Students' information and communication technology (ICT) skills have been shown to be a valuable resource for their educational performance, although to varying degrees across countries. Our paper adds to existing knowledge to understand how and why country-specific ICT characteristics make a difference to math performance benefits students glean…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education, Mathematics Achievement, Access to Computers
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Mobarak Hossain – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
This study explores the perceptions of government officials, teachers, and parents in Scotland regarding the use of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results to evaluate national education performance. International large-scale assessments (ILSAs) such as PISA have been increasingly influencing education policymaking worldwide,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Louis Volante; Paola Mattei – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Education reform efforts stemming from the Programme in International Student Achievement have strengthened in recent years, particularly in response to the growth of global references societies -- high achieving educational jurisdictions such as Finland, Hong Kong-China, and more recently Estonia and Singapore. Despite political rhetoric,…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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Teresa Teixeira Lopo; António Teodoro; Leonor Borges – European Education, 2024
The purpose of this article is to reexamine the decision-making process on Portugal's entry into PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). The analysis indicates that the decision, which was not unanimous among the government members with responsibilities in the education field, was made in a context of normative emulation, with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students