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Chung, Jennifer – London Review of Education, 2023
Finnish education has received worldwide attention due to the country's performances in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Research investigating Finland's positive outcomes in the assessment has highlighted not only the strength of teachers, but also the rigour of Finnish teacher education. Finnish student teachers must…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
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Clare Brooks; Joanna McIntyre; Trevor Mutton – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
This paper examines how the policy process around initial teacher education (ITE) during the pandemic of 2020 was experienced by the leaders of ITE programmes across England. Education policies, it is argued, are solutions to perceived problems, revealing latent values that drive action. Group interviews with leaders of ITE programmes across the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Professionalism
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Luschei, Thomas F.; Jeong, Dong Wook – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2021
Although cross-national evidence suggests that decentralization of educational governance is positively related to student achievement, related research often fails to recognize the separate roles and influences of governments, school boards, principals, and teachers. We use data from the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment to…
Descriptors: School Administration, Governance, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Skipp, Charlotte S.; Dommett, Eleanor J. – Education Sciences, 2021
This paper reflects on UK mathematics education following the poor performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) metric, which compares reading, science, and mathematics across 27 countries. We compared a range of features within secondary school mathematics in the UK with the countries outperforming the UK. We note…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, 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