An Atlantic crossing?
Subtitle: the work of the International Examination Inquiry, its researchers, methods, and influence
By: edited by Martin Lawn.
Contributors: Lawn, Martin.
Series: Comparative histories of education
Publisher: Symposium Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781873927267
Subjects: Carnegie Corporation of New York; Comparative education -- International cooperation -- History; Comparative education -- Congresses -- History; Education, Secondary -- Cross-cultural studies; Education, Secondary -- Research -- History; Educational tests and measurements -- Research -- History
Genres: Congresses; Cross-cultural studies
Other titles: Work of the International Examination Inquiry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Blowing up the citadel of examinations : the English committee and the Carnegie Corporation / Martin Lawn; title: Awkward knowledge : the German delegation to the International Examinations Inquiry / Florian Waldow; title: Bovet's dilemma; title: examinations or no examinations : the Swiss contribution to the Carnegie initiative / Rita Hofstetter & Bernard Schneuwly; title: The battle of the baccalauréat : the long forgotten story of a divided committee / Marc Zarrouati; title: Naïve, expert and willing partners : the Scottish Council for Research in Education in the International Examinations Inquiry / Martin Lawn, Ian Deary, & David Bartholomew; title: Laurin Zilliacus and the "war" against the Finnish matriculation examination / Minna Vuorio-Lehti & Annukka Jauhiainen; title: Inter/national [sic] assessments as national curriculum : the case of Sweden / Christian Lundahl; title: Between common schooling and the academe : the International Examinations Inquiry in Norway, 1935-1961 / Harald Jarning & Gro Hanne Aas.