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The Use of Large-Scale Assessment (PISA): Insights for Policy and Practice in the Case of Hong Kong
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Sui Chu Ho, Esther – Research Papers in Education, 2016
This paper examines to what extent and how the data and results of PISA have been used for various education stakeholders and to what extent PISA affect educational policy and practices in Hong Kong. From the point of view of the government, PISA has played an important role in supporting and legitimising government educational reform since 2000.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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