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Direct linkGorur, Radhika – European Educational Research Journal, 2016
PISA is an extremely influential large-scale assessment, and its "policy lessons" are being incorporated in a range of nations all over the world. In this paper I argue that not only is PISA influencing policies and practices, but also that "seeing like PISA" is becoming a widespread phenomenon. Globally, education…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Evaluation Utilization, Test Reliability, Test Validity
Perry, Nancy; Ercikan, Kadriye – Teachers College Record, 2015
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) was designed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to evaluate the quality, equity, and efficiency of school systems around the world. Specifically, the PISA has assessed 15-year-old students' reading, mathematics, and science literacy on a 3-year cycle, since…
Descriptors: International Education, Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests
Bonal, Xavier; Tarabini, Aina – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
The aim of this article is to analyse the direct and indirect effects that PISA generates in the orientation of educational policies and reforms in Spain and the ways in which PISA data and results are used in political discourses, at both national and sub-national levels. The main hypothesis of the article is that PISA results have played a key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Student Evaluation
Li, Hongli; Fortner, C. Kevin; Lei, Xiaoxuan – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
In this study, we examined relationships between the use of test results and US students' math, reading, and science performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009. Based on a literature review, we hypothesized that the 16 items in the PISA school questionnaire, which are related to the use of test results, can be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Tests, Evaluation Utilization, Mathematics Achievement
Breakspear, Simon – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
Little research has been done into how the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) affect national educational reform and policy-making. This paper examines the normative impact of PISA by investigating how, and the extent to which , national policy actors use PISA in policies and practices, to evaluate and improve…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Download full textBurns, Shelley, Ed.; Wang, Xiaolei, Ed.; Henning, Alexandra, Ed. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
Since its inception, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has been committed to the practice of documenting its statistical methods for its customers and of seeking to avoid misinterpretation of its published data. The reason for this policy is to assure customers that proper statistical standards and techniques have been observed,…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Data Processing, Statistical Data, Data Collection
Gur, Bekir S.; Celik, Zafer; Ozoglu, Murat – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
In this article we provide a critique of the interpretation and utilization of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results by the National Education Authorities in Turkey. First, we define and explain what OECD's PISA is. Second, we make an overview of the media coverage in Turkey of the PISA 2003 and 2006 results. Third, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Quality, News Reporting
Liang, Xin – Evaluation & Research in Education, 2010
The study examined the role of classroom assessment and its relationships to student characteristics and mathematics performance by comparing the USA, Canada and Finland using Program of International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003 data. The results indicated that student individual characteristics such as gender, family social-cultural status,…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Student Evaluation, Self Efficacy, Mathematics Achievement
Miller, David C.; Sen, Anindita; Malley, Lydia B. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
This report describes how the education system in the United States compares with education systems in the other Group of Eight (G-8) countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom. The report draws on the most current information about education from three primary sources: the Indicators of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Enrollment, Youth
