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Halos, Love Boats, and the PISA Family: Understanding Contractors' Rationales for Carrying out International Large-Scale Assessment Contracts
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Camilla Addey – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
Why are contractors keen to develop, implement, and analyse International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs) when they appear to make no financial gains? What, if not monetary profit, makes ILSA contracts so attractive? Almost all ILSA contractors interviewed as part of this project state that their ILSA work is an investment, either in the form of a…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
Canadian and United States Students' Performances on the OECD's PISA 2012 Problem-Solving Assessment
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Dossey, John A.; Funke, Joachim – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2016
This article presents an overview of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 Problem-Solving assessment. The assessment examined the capabilities of 15-year-olds in 40 nations and four large international cities, as well as the Canadian Provinces, to solve a set…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, International Assessment, Achievement Tests
Communities of Practice and PISA for Schools: Comparative Learning or a Mode of Educational Governance?
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Lewis, Steven – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
This paper examines the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) "PISA for Schools," a new variant of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that compares school-level performance on reading, math and science with international schooling systems (e.g., Shanghai-China, Finland). Specifically, I…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
Toward One of the Leading Education-Based Economies? Investigating Aims, Strategies, and Practices of Finland's Education Export Landscape
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Schatz, Monika – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2015
Since the first publication of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) results in 2000, the Finnish education system has received much praise both in Finland and abroad. In recent years, Finland started to build up its own education export sector with the aim of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education, Case Studies, Commercialization