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Liu, Ji – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
This study explores the multidimensionality of engagements with international large-scale standardised assessments (ILSAs). The objective is to understand how different policy actors--government, media, and citizens--rationalise, report, and perceive China's PISA participation. First, government archive analysis traces a decade of documents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Ioannidou, Olga; Georgiou, Despoina; Obersteiner, Andreas; Bas, Nilüfer Deniz; Mieslinger, Christine – International Education Studies, 2017
The results of international comparison studies such as the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) have initiated intense discussions about educational reforms in Germany. Although in-service and pre-service teachers are an essential part of such reforms, little is known about their attitudes towards PISA studies. The present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, College Students
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Pons, Xavier – European Educational Research Journal, 2012
The aim of this article is to open discussion by analysing the cognitive reception of PISA in six European countries which were studied in the European collective research project KNOWandPOL (Knowledge and Policy in Education and Health Sectors). Reception does not mean here a simple vertical transmission of messages from the international level…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Research, Public Opinion, Cognitive Processes
Lott, Johnny W. – Principal Leadership, 2007
Mathematical literacy is more than numeracy; it is an individual's capacity to identify and understand the role that mathematics plays in the world and to make well-founded judgments that use and engage mathematics to meet his or her future needs as a constructive, concerned, and reflective citizen (Programme for International Student Assessment…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Public Opinion, Mathematics Skills