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Direct linkGorur, Radhika – Critical Studies in Education, 2017
International large-scale assessments and comparisons (ILSAs) in education have become significant policy phenomena. How a country fares in these assessments has come to signify not only how a nation's education system is performing, but also its future prospects in a global economic "race". These assessments provoke passionate arguments…
Descriptors: Criticism, Comparative Education, Validity, Educational Policy
Gorur, Radhika – European Educational Research Journal, 2014
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has developed impressive machinery to produce international comparative data across more than 70 systems of education and these data have come to be used extensively in policy circles around the world. In many countries, national and international comparative data are used as the…
Descriptors: Sociology, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Validity
Gorur, Radhika – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2011
The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is increasingly depended upon by education policy makers to provide reliable measures of their country's education system against international benchmarks. PISA attempts to provide efficient, scientific and technical means to develop educational policies which achieve optimal…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
