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Perceptions of Key Education Actors towards PISA: The Case of Scotland
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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
The Politicization of PISA in Evidence-Based Policy Discourses
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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
Why Did Portugal Enter PISA? Divergent Political Views, the National Agenda and the OECD Push
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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
On the Supranational Spell of PISA in Policy
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Baird, Jo-Anne; Johnson, Sandra; Hopfenbeck, Therese N.; Isaacs, Talia; Sprague, Terra; Stobart, Gordon; Yu, Guoxing – Educational Research, 2016
Background: PISA results appear to have a large impact upon government policy. The phenomenon is growing, with more countries taking part in PISA testing and politicians pointing to PISA results as reasons for their reforms. Purpose: The aims of this research were to depict the policy reactions to PISA across a number of jurisdictions, to see…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Educational Change
School Regimes and Education Equity: Some Insights Based on PISA 2006
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Alegre, Miquel Angel; Ferrer, Gerard – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
This paper aims to analyze the effects of certain characteristics of the educational systems on the social composition of schools. After accounting for significant effects of schools' social composition on student outcomes (this is confirmed on the basis of a multilevel analysis), we explore the impacts of distinct components of what we name…
Descriptors: School Choice, Foreign Countries, School Segregation, Politics of Education
Voluntary Self-Control: Education Reform as a Governmental Strategy
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Pongratz, Ludwig A. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2006
This paper takes the vigorous political debate unleashed in Germany by the results of the PISA study as a stimulus to take a closer look at the strategic aims and effects of the current education reforms, of which the PISA study is only one example. It shows that the reform measures underpin a powerful process of normalisation. In this context,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Educational Change, Power Structure