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Pisa under examination : changing knowledge, changing tests, and changing schools / editied by Miguel A. Pereyra, Hans-Georg Kotthoff and Robert Cowan.
Van Pelt Library LB2822.75 .P57 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Programme for International Student Assessment--Congresses.
- Programme for International Student Assessment.
- Minorities--Education--Congresses.
- Minorities.
- Educational evaluation--OECD countries--Congresses.
- Educational evaluation.
- Literacy--OECD countries.
- Literacy.
- Minorities--Education.
- OECD countries.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 334 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Rotterdam ; Boston, MA : Sense, 2011.
- Summary:
- In these papers from a November 2009 conference organized by the Comparative Education Society in Europe, international contributors in education, psychology, public policy, and political science discuss issues related to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)'s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which evaluates the academic performance of 15-year-old students in 62 countries every three years. Some topics explored include PISA as a political instrument, the context for interpreting PISA results in the US, the introduction of state-wide exit exams, and PISA's potential for analyses of immigrant students' educational success. There is no subject index. Pereyra is affiliated with the University of Granada, Spain, Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- The comparative challenges of the OECD PISA programme
- PISA and school knowledge
- The assessment of PISA, school effectiveness and the socio-cultural dimension
- PISA and the immigrant student question
- Extreme visions of PISA : Germany and Finland.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9460917380
- 9460917399
- 9789460917394
- 9789460917387
- OCLC:
- 774667366
- Publisher Number:
- 99948130808
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