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Direct linkBailey, Lucy; Ledger, Susan; Thier, Michael; Pitts, Christine M. T. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results have become synonymous with quality benchmarking, determining standards and comparing performance among 15-year-old students in countries around the globe. Concern, however, exists with the utility and consequential validity of the newest measure to the suite of the OECD's PISA tests:…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Hajisoteriou, Christina; Neophytou, Lefkios – Education Inquiry, 2022
This paper reports the results of a document analysis study examining the policies, trends, and conceptions developed by the OECD in the last 15 years regarding the development and mainstreaming of globalised policies of migrant education. From the process of the analysis, three thematic categories emerged: (i) Socio-economic aspects of education:…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Educational Policy, Migrant Education, Educational Trends
Camphuijsen, Marjolein K.; Møller, Jorunn; Skedsmo, Guri – Journal of Education Policy, 2021
This paper investigates how and why test-based accountability (TBA), a global model for education reform, began to dominate educational debates in Norway in the early 2000s, and how this policy has been operationalised and institutionalised over time. In examining the adoption and retention of TBA in Norway, we build on the cultural political…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Officials, Educational Policy, Standards
Vong, Teresa Sou-Kuan; Wong, Matilda – European Educational Research Journal, 2014
The creation of a European education space has been extensively discussed in Europe. Many scholars are concerned about the way in which the emergence of "global governmentality," such as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)'s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), has produced a "soft…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Global Approach, International Organizations
Forestier, Katherine; Adamson, Bob; Han, Christine; Morris, Paul – Educational Research, 2016
Background: This paper analyses the role of, and approach to, policy referencing and borrowing in Hong Kong's recent reforms that culminated in the creation of its New Academic Structure and the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education. Main argument: It argues that Hong Kong has gone further than most jurisdictions not just in responding to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Finkel, Ed – District Administration, 2012
If the results of the most recent international achievement tests were graded on a curve, U.S. students probably would rank somewhere in the B range. They placed 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in mathematics among 70 countries whose 15-year-olds participated in the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing, the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, Global Approach, Educational Practices
Schleicher, Andreas – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
International educational benchmarks make disappointing reading for Americans, but they also indicate a way forward. PISA results show strong performance is possible. Whether in Japan, Korea, Finland or Canada, many countries display strong overall performance and show socioeconomic background doesn't determine results. Some countries show that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Benchmarking, Global Approach
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009
To future generations, Americans' current educational myopia is likely to appear, at best, a negligent failure to anticipate and meet the needs of the nation and its citizens. And for the sake of those future generations, this brief suggests that the short-sighted practices and parochial policies that have delayed significant improvement in the…
Descriptors: International Education, Benchmarking, Global Approach, Participation
McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2008
No longer content with the patchwork quilt of assessments used to measure states' K-12 performance, top policy groups are pushing states toward international benchmarking as a way to better prepare students for a competitive global economy. The National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the standards-advocacy…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Global Approach, Student Evaluation, Achievement Tests
