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Komatsu, Hikaru; Rappleye, Jeremy – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
The OECD's PISA exercise has by now been widely critiqued. Whilst we agree with most concerns, we begin with the assumption that PISA will remain an enduring and powerful feature of the global educational landscape. Even if the PISA test itself were discontinued, a similar large-scale quantitative assessment exercise would soon arise to take its…
Descriptors: Criticism, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Showalter, Daniel A. – Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM), 2012
Place-based mathematics education (PBME) has the potential to engage students with the mathematics inherent in the local land, culture, and community. However, research has identified daunting barriers to this pedagogy, especially in abstract mathematics courses such as algebra and beyond. In this study, 15 graduates of a doctoral program in rural…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Mathematics Education, Rural Education, Statistics