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Direct linkViadero, Debra – Education Week, 2006
In 1958, a group of international scholars met in Hamburg, Germany, and hatched an idea for a huge study to measure student learning around the globe. They saw the world as one big educational laboratory, with each country acting as its own naturally occurring experiment. If tests could gauge the effects of those experiments, the researchers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Student Evaluation
