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Large-Scale Assessments and Educational Policies in Italy
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Damiani, Valeria – Research Papers in Education, 2016
Despite Italy's extensive participation in most large-scale assessments, their actual influence on Italian educational policies is less easy to identify. The present contribution aims at highlighting and explaining reasons for the weak and often inconsistent relationship between international surveys and policy-making processes in Italy.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
TIMSS and PISA Impact--The Case of Jordan
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Ababneh, Emad; Al-Tweissi, Ahmad; Abulibdeh, Khattab – Research Papers in Education, 2016
Jordan has participated in international large-scale assessments (LSAs) since 1991 and in most of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Studies (TIMSS) as well as the Programme for International Student Assessments (PISA). After a short description of education system and policy-making context in the country, this article provides an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
International Large-Scale Assessment Studies and Educational Policy-Making in Chile: Contexts and Dimensions of Influence
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Cox, Cristián; Meckes, Lorena – Research Papers in Education, 2016
Since the 1990s, Chile has participated in all major international large-scale assessment studies (ILSAs) of the IEA and OECD, as well as the regional ones conducted by UNESCO in Latin America, after it had been involved in the very first international Science Study in 1970-1971. This article examines the various ways in which these studies have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
The Experience of Middle-Income Countries Participating in PISA 2000. PISA
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Lockheed, Marlaine E. – OECD Publishing, 2015
This report provides a systematic review and empirical evidence related to the experiences of middle-income countries and economies participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2000 to 2015. PISA is a triennial survey that aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations