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Kanes, Clive; Morgan, Candia; Tsatsaroni, Anna – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2014
Within mathematics education research, the responses to the Programme for International Student Assessment's (PISA's) international testing regime tend to accept its framework and results as necessary points of reference, even when offering a critical reinterpretation or challenging national policy discourses based on PISA. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Research, Educational Theories, Textbook Evaluation
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Chen, Huilin; Chen, Jinsong – Educational Psychology, 2016
By analysing the test data of 1029 British secondary school students' performance on 20 Programme for International Student Assessment English reading items through the generalised deterministic input, noisy "and" gate (G-DINA) model, the study conducted two investigations on exploring the relationships among the five reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Models, Foreign Countries
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Stack, Michelle – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
It is through the media that audiences come to learn about the apparent successes and failure of the education system. Despite this power, the connection of the media to educational leadership and policy making is often given little attention in determining the forces at play in evaluating what happens in schools. Using a critical discourse…
Descriptors: Test Results, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Discourse Analysis