RESEARCH
IN COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Volume 8 Number 3 2013
ISSN 1745-4999
SPECIAL
ISSUE
THE GLOBALIZATION OF
ASSESSMENT:
a forum on international tests of student
performance
Guest Editors: LAURA C. ENGEL & JAMES H.
WILLIAMS
James
H. Williams & Laura C. Engel. Testing to Rank, Testing to Learn,
Testing to Improve: an introduction and overview
ARTICLES
William
H. Schmidt & Nathan A. Burroughs. Opening the Black Box: prospects
for using international large-scale assessments to explore classroom effects
Judith
Torney-Purta & Jo-Ann Amadeo. International Large-Scale
Assessments: challenges in reporting and potentials for secondary analysis
David
Rutkowski & Leslie Rutkowski. Measuring Socioeconomic Background in
PISA: one size might not fit all
Rebecca
Winthrop & Kate Anderson Simons. Can International Large-Scale
Assessments Inform a Global Learning Goal? Insights from the Learning Metrics
Task Force
Marlaine
E. Lockheed & Hans Wagemaker. International Large-Scale
Assessments: thermometers, whips or useful policy tools?
Keita
Takayama, Florian Waldow & Youl-Kwan Sung. Finland Has it All?
Examining the Media Accentuation of ‘Finnish Education’ in Australia, Germany
and South Korea
CASES
Valena
White Plisko. Participation in International Large-Scale Assessments
from a US Perspective
Xavier
Bonal & Aina Tarabini. The Role of PISA in Shaping Hegemonic
Educational Discourses, Policies and Practices: the case of Spain
Susan
Seeber & Rainer Lehmann. The Impact of International Large-Scale
Assessments on Work-related Educational Monitoring and Policy-making in
Germany
Demus
K. Makuwa & Jan Maarse. The Impact of Large-Scale International
Assessments: a case study of how the Ministry of Education in Namibia used
SACMEQ assessments to improve learning outcomes
Amy
Jo Dowd & Lauren Pisani. Two Wheels are Better than One: the
importance of capturing the home literacy environment in large-scale assessments
of reading
Amber
Gove, Samir Habib, Benjamin Piper & Wendi Ralaingita. Classroom-up
Policy Change: early reading and math assessments at work
Rukmini
Banerji, Suman Bhattacharjea & Wilima Wadhwa. The Annual Status of
Education Report (ASER)
BOOK
REVIEWS
IEA 1958 2008: 50 years of experiences and memories
(Constantinos Papanastasiou, Tjeerd Plomp & Elena C. Papanastasiou, Eds),
reviewed by Oren Pizmony-Levy
PISA Under Examination:
changing knowledge, changing tests and changing schools (Miguel A. Pereyra,
Hans-Georg Kotthoff & Robert Cowen, Eds), reviewed by Morten
Greaves
PISA, Power and Policy: the emergence of global
educational governance (Heinz-Dieter Meyer & Aaron Benavot, Eds),
reviewed by Noel McGinn