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Direct linkCarvalho, Luis Miguel – European Educational Research Journal, 2012
This article sets forth the main elements of the conceptual framework for the overall approach to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) taken in this special issue. PISA is here examined as a (knowledge for policy) regulatory instrument made by intertwined cognitive and social practices, and involving multidirectional flows of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Student Evaluation, Testing Programs, Foreign Countries
Download full textMeeks, Linda; Kemp, Coral; Stephenson, Jennifer – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
The establishment of international testing regimes such as the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has provided one way for individual countries to monitor the effectiveness of their educational…
Descriptors: Literacy, Numeracy, Academic Standards, Academic Achievement
Wagner, Daniel A.; Babson, Andrew; Murphy, Katie M. – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2011
Timely and credible data on student learning has become a global issue in the ongoing effort to improve educational outcomes. With the potential to serve as a powerful diagnostic tool to gauge the overall health and well-being of an educational system, educational assessments have received increasing attention among specialists and the media.…
Descriptors: Low Income, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Educational Change
Hopmann, Stefan Thomas – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2008
Why and under which conditions do international student assessment programmes like PISA have success? How can the results of these assessments be useful for advocates of different, even contradictory, policies? What might explain different patterns of using assessment as a tool for school governance? Drawing on historical and comparative research,…
Descriptors: Governance, Social Change, Accountability, Student Evaluation
Glassman, Deborah, Ed. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2002
IMHE-Info is the newsletter published by the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) programme. This issue includes: (1) Internationalisation Quality Review (IQR); and (2) What do Students Expect? How do HEIs Respond? IMHE News, publications of interest and upcoming events are included.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Administration, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
