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Chung, Jennifer – Educational Research, 2016
Background: International achievement studies such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have an increasing influence on education policy worldwide. The use of such data can provide a basis for evidence-based policy-making to initiate educational reform. Finland, a high performer in PISA, is often cited as an example of both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Models
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Chung, Jennifer; Atkin, Chris; Moore, Jane – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
The success of Finland in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) highlights the quality of Finnish teacher education underpinning its consistently high performance in the survey. In 2010 the UK government initiated a masters in teaching and learning (MTL) in order to raise the education level of teachers, following Finland's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Preservice Teacher Education, Adoption (Ideas)