Title: International comparisons and educational reform /
Authors: Purves, Alan C. 1931-1996.; Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Comparative education.; Educational change
Contents: Foreword / Patricia C. Conran -- Introduction / Alan C. Purves -- Comparing educational phenomena / Seth Spaulding -- The problems of comparing curriculums across educational systems / Ian Westbury -- How two educational systems learned from comparative studies / Inger Marklund -- The Hungarian experience / Zoltan Bathory -- What IEA studies say about curriculum and school organization / Edward Kifer -- What IEA studies say about teachers and teaching / Lorin W. Anderson and T. Neville Postlethwaite -- The IEA studies and reforms in reading, writing, and literacy / Alan C. Purves -- Science, mathematics, and national welfare / Herbert J. Walberg -- Afterword--a world of assessment, a universe of data / Chester E. Finn, Jr.