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Kirwan, Liz – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
This article interrogates the extent to which the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) through its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) influenced the development of Project Maths, a new second-level mathematics education policy in Ireland. It argues that the Irish government, in its revision of mathematics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Curriculum, Secondary School Mathematics, International Assessment
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Münch, Richard – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background: The PISA study (assessing the competences of 15-year-old students in their mother tongue, in mathematics and in natural sciences) deals with the benchmarking of the OECD member states when it comes to meeting globally defined educational standards. Transnational educational experts now form the most powerful group within the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Educational Change