PISA Under Examination / edited by Miguel A. Pereyra, Hans-Georg Kotthoff, Robert Cowen.

• Superior document: Comparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices, A Diversity of Voices, 11
• HerausgeberIn: Pereyra, Miguel A.; Kotthoff, Hans-Georg.; Cowen, Robert.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed. 2011.
• Language: English
• Series: Comparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices, A Diversity of Voices, 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

From the 23rd to 26th of November 2009 in La Palma island, in the Canaries, the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) organized an international symposium entitled PISA under Examination: Changing Knowledge, Changing Tests, and Changing Schools. During four days seventeen leading scholars of Europe and America presented their contributions to debate the different problematiques of the remarkable phenomenon represented by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment or PISA. PISA is not merely an educational event. It is also a media circus which involves the public rehearsal for reasons for failure or success; and even, in some cases, public and political and academic explanations about why 'failure' was not really that, and why 'success' was not really that either. At the centre of all these indications, we find the growing influence of international agencies on education and schooling which is decisively contributing to a marketisation of the field of education, in the context of an increasingly multilevel and fragmented arena for educational governance based on the formulation, the regulation and the transnational coordination and convergence of policies, buttressed at the same time by the diffusion of persuasive discursive practice. Organized in four sections entitled The Comparative Challenges of the OCDE PISA Programme, PISA and School Knowledge, The Assessment of PISA, School Effectiveness and the Socio-cultural Dimension, PISA and the Immigrant Student Question, and Extreme Visions of PISA: Germany and Finland, the contributions of this book offers a comprehensive approach of all these challenging and significant issues written from different and distinct research and academic traditions.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Miguel A. Pereyra , Hans-Georg Kotthoff and Robert Cowen -- PISA under Examination / Miguel A. Pereyra , Hans-Georg Kotthoff and Robert Cowen -- PISA as a Political Instrument / Ulf P. Lundgren Professor Emeritus -- PISA / Thomas Popkewitz -- Constructing the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment / Clara Morgan -- The Dissatisfaction of the Losers / Antonio Bolívar -- The Context for Interpreting PISA Results in the USA / David C. Berliner -- PISA, International Comparisons, Epistemic Paradoxes / David Scott -- Competencies vs. Interculturalty. Student Exchanges in the Age of PISA / Donatella Palomba and Anselmo R. Paolone -- The Introduction of State-Wide Exit Examinations / Katharina Maag Merki -- The PISA Girls and Ticking the Boxes / Gerry Mac Ruairc -- From the Appealing Power of PISA Data to the Delusions of Benchmarking / Marie Duru-Bellat -- Are You on the Educational Production Frontier? Some Economic Insights on Efficiency From PISA / Javier Salinas Jiménez and Daniel Santín González -- Pisa’s Potential for Analyses of Immigrant Students’ Educational Success / Aileen Edele and Petra Stanat -- Why Do the Results of Immigrant Students Depend so Much on their Country of Origin and so Little on Their Country of Destination? / Julio Carabaña -- Education Politics and Contingency / Hannu Simola and Risto Rinne -- Concepts, Cultures and Comparisons / Daniel Tröhler -- Coda / Robert Cowen -- Visualizing Pisa Scientific Literature Versus Pisa Public Usage / Antonio Luzón and Mónica Torres -- The Poster Exhibition / Miguel A. Pereyra , Hans-Georg Kotthoff and Robert Cowen -- Pisa a Examen, Cambiar El Conocimiento, Cambiar Las Pruebas Y Cambiar Las Escuelas / Miguel A. Pereyra , Hans-Georg Kotthoff and Robert Cowen -- Notes on Contributors / Miguel A. Pereyra , Hans-Georg Kotthoff and Robert Cowen.