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Yang, Wenjie; Fan, Guorui – ECNU Review of Education, 2019
Purpose: This study analyzes the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data, revealing that the test itself reflects China's educational problems as well as the resultant effect of digital governance. Examining the root cause of these problems, this study demonstrates that the education reforms implemented in response to the PISA…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
Najat Ouakrim-Soivio; Sirkku Kupiainen – National Center on Education and the Economy, 2023
The report provides a social and historical perspective on how Finland's education system was built and emerged as a high performer in Europe by 2000. In highlighting Finland's strengths, the authors focus on: (1) Finland's long-standing commitment to supporting all of its students as the driver of strong outcomes; (2 the systems's emphasis on…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Quality, Special Education, Inclusion
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Tröhler, Daniel – Educational Governance Research, 2018
Taking the example of the current educational reforms, that is, the harmonization of the Swiss education systems, this chapter engages with the paradoxical character of modern education policy that believes it enhances its agency by referring to the unshakeable basis of their policy, the "crystal-clear" facts or "data,"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Gill, C. M. Hugues D.; Berezina, Elizaveta – European Journal of Training and Development, 2021
Purpose: The three neighbouring nations of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore participated in the 2009, 2012 and 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) cycles. Despite many similarities between the three nations, Singapore has consistently been a top PISA performer, with Malaysia and Indonesia in the bottom third of the…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
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Kelly, Peter; Kotthoff, Hans-Georg – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2017
To consider how processes of education governance linking the work of international organisations and national and regional policy-making in two contrasting policy environments affect policy enactment in schools, differences in mathematics teaching between English and German secondary schools were analysed using Bernstein's account of pedagogic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Comparative Education, Educational Policy