Education Policy, Cross-National Tests of Pupil Achievement, and the Pursuit of World-Class Schooling
Subtitle: A Critical Analysis
Publisher: Institute of Education Press (IOE Press)
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781782771555
Subjects: Comparative education
Description: Educational reforms are increasingly presented as a technocratic exercise designed to emulate the features of educational systems that have performed well on cross-national tests of pupil achievement, such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). That process has been facilitated by the emergence of a form of comparative education that identifies and promotes transferable policies. This lecture analyses and critiques how this approach operates.