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Cross-national achievement surveys and educational outcomes: a brief history
Cross-national achievement surveys for monitoring educational outcomes: Policies, practices, and political reforms within the European Union, pp.18-34
Publications Office of the European Union
2022
Abstract
This chapter provides an introduction to the topic of cross-national achievement surveys and their use in monitoring educational outcomes. After a brief review of the scope of prominent surveys administered by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, we examine methodological issues as well as the contested nature of policy implications stemming from comparative studies. We discuss how design issues rarely, if ever, factor into debates on strategic large-scale reform. At the same time, this chapter, as well as the ensuing national profiles, underlines the diversity of policy decisions that are often taken in response to achievement results. A key conclusion is therefore that reacting to crossnational achievement surveys is not a uniform process, as is often suggested, but influenced by a range of political, cultural and historical perspectives. A framework for the national profiles in the second part of this book is also provided at the end of this chapter.
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- Title
- Cross-national achievement surveys and educational outcomes: a brief history
- Authors/Creators
- Louis Volante - Brock UniversitySylke V Schnepf - Joint Research CentreDon A. Klinger Professor - Murdoch University, Vice Chancellery
- Publication Details
- Cross-national achievement surveys for monitoring educational outcomes: Policies, practices, and political reforms within the European Union, pp.18-34
- Publisher
- Publications Office of the European Union
- Identifiers
- 991005619761507891
- Copyright
- © European Union, 2022
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Vice Chancellery
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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