International comparisons and educational reform
By: edited by Alan C. Purves.
Contributors: Purves, Alan C., 1931-; Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Alex[andria], VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Comparative education.; Educational change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Patricia C. Conran; title: Introduction / Alan C. Purves; title: Comparing educational phenomena / Seth Spaulding; title: The problems of comparing curriculums across educational systems / Ian Westbury; title: How two educational systems learned from comparative studies / Inger Marklund; title: The Hungarian experience / Zoltan Bathory; title: What IEA studies say about curriculum and school organization / Edward Kifer; title: What IEA studies say about teachers and teaching / Lorin W. Anderson and T. Neville Postlethwaite; title: The IEA studies and reforms in reading, writing, and literacy / Alan C. Purves; title: Science, mathematics, and national welfare / Herbert J. Walberg; title: Afterword; title: a world of assessment, a universe of data / Chester E. Finn, Jr.