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Understanding PISA's Attractiveness - Critical Analyses in Comparative Policy Studies (Paperback)
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Understanding PISA's Attractiveness - Critical Analyses in Comparative Policy Studies (Paperback)
Series: New Directions in Comparative and International Education
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Understanding PISA's Attractiveness examines how policy makers and
the media interpret the results of PISA league-leaders, losers, and
slippers in ways that suit their own reform agendas. As a result, a
myriad of explanations exist as to why an educational system is
high or low performing. The chapters, written by leading scholars
from Australia, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway,
Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK and the USA,
provide a fascinating account of why results from PISA and other
international large-scale assessments are interpreted and
translated differently in the various countries. The analyses in
this book bring to light the wide array of idiosyncratic
projections into these international tests. In some countries,
these tests are also used to scandalise one's own educational
system and to generate quasi-external reform pressure. Compiled by
two leading scholars in comparative education, Florian Waldow and
Gita Steiner-Khamsi, this book offers a truly global perspective on
the uses and abuses of PISA and will be of great interest to
students and academics working in educational policy, comparative
education and political science and those working on large-scale
data sets.
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