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Direct linkTeodoro, António, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2022
This volume offers a critical examination of the Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), focusing on its origins and implementation, relationship to other international large-scale assessments, and its impacts on educational policy and reform at national and cross-national levels. Using empirical data gathered from a research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
OECD Publishing, 2014
The Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will establish technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the survey design and implementation processes of PIAAC yield high-quality and internationally comparable data. This document provides a revised version of the technical standards and guidelines originally…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Competence
Peer reviewedFreitag-Rouanet, Barbara – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1991
Evaluates the United Nations 1990 Human Development Report's portrayal of Brazil. Attributes missed human development opportunities cited in the report to the Brazilian military rule of 1964 to 1984 and subsequent redemocratization. Cites possibilities for human development, particularly in education. Questions whether Brazil will be among the…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Human Capital
Peer reviewedMacPhail-Wilcox, Bettye; King, Richard A. – Journal of Education Finance, 1986
Educational reform depends more on clearly defined missions and operational efficiency than on improved teacher quality. This article defines adequacy, equality, equity, and efficiency; examines numerous production function studies of teacher characteristics and policy and administrative structures; and summarizes seven policy implications.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
Peer reviewedPost, David – Sociology of Education, 1990
Asked 3,200 Peruvian graduating secondary students to explain their choice concerning whether to attend college. Reveals human capital theory's limited applicability, showing only wealthier urban boys used cost effectiveness in their decision. Relates the heterogeneity of higher education demand factors to inherent limits in Latin American…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Demand, Educational Policy
