RESEARCH IN COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

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

 

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