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Cefai, Carmel; Cavioni, Valeria – Contemporary School Psychology, 2015
Over the past couple of decades, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) has gained an increasing role in shaping educational systems and policies across the world. PISA's measurement of a limited range of cognitive abilities across cultures, however, promotes a narrow view of education, one that focuses primarily on preparing…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Social Development, Emotional Development, School Role
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Cefai, Carmel; Clouder, Christopher; Antognazza, Davide; Boland, Neil; Cavioni, Valeria; Heys, Belinda; Madrazo, Claudia; Solborg, Claes – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2014
The rise of the PISA standards has taken the educational world by storm, with intense media attention and debate every time they are published. Over the past two decades, they have been gaining an increasing role in shaping educational systems and policies across the world, gaining a "canonical status" among member countries, and…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Mathematics Tests, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement