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Direct linkWahlström, Ninni; Nordin, Andreas – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
In this article, we explore the processes of transfer and translation of education policy in a study focusing on the relationship between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Sweden. The purpose of the study is to investigate how selective borrowing occurs both in terms of references to different types of knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Policy, International Organizations
LeRoy, Barbara W.; Samuel, Preethy; Deluca, Marcella; Evans, Peter – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2019
Since 2003, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has included students with special educational needs (SEN), identified as those with functional disabilities, those with cognitive/behavioural/emotional disabilities and those with limited test language proficiency. While the number of countries and included students has…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Lewis, Steven; Hogan, Anna – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
This article explores the uptake of so-called fast policy solutions to problems in different education policy contexts and highlights the potential impacts that can arise from such policymaking approaches. We draw upon recent literature and theorising around notions of fast policy and evidence-informed policymaking, which suggests that, in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Government Publications
Download full textYang, Wenjie; Fan, Guorui – ECNU Review of Education, 2019
Purpose: This study analyzes the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data, revealing that the test itself reflects China's educational problems as well as the resultant effect of digital governance. Examining the root cause of these problems, this study demonstrates that the education reforms implemented in response to the PISA…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
Mullen, Carol A. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2020
Certain global leadership forces -- competitiveness, tolerance and creativity -- are so pervasive that they can be illustrated on the part of any country. However, nations also have unique dynamics to consider within our interconnected world. This is the overarching issue being expressed in this essay wherein the Carol Mullen deconstructs Canada's…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Prosocial Behavior, Creativity, Foreign Countries
Hopfenbeck, Therese N.; Görgen, Kristine – European Journal of Education, 2017
Using the PISA 2015 releases in Norway and England, this article explores how PISA has been presented in the media and how the policy level has responded to the results. England will be used as an example for comparison. The article presents early media responses from the 20 most circulated daily newspapers in the two countries and discusses them…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Foreign Countries
O'Doherty, Teresa – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2014
This paper explores the impact of significant OECD documents on the development of Irish education policy, specifically teacher education policy, over the last half century. While other commentators have argued that Irish education has been predominantly influenced by policy developments in the UK, US or Europe, this paper identifies the OECD as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Cartwright, Fernando – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This study examines the feasibility of reporting scores of a test based on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2000 instrument that was administered to a sample of 25-year-old Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) respondents on the PISA scale. Each of these respondents also participated in PISA 2000. The study examines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Reading Achievement, Reading Skills
Kozma, Robert B. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
In support of the conclusions and recommendations in the National Education Technology Plan (NETP), this article makes explicit the connections between the economic rationale used in the plan and the educational transformations it recommends. The article reviews macroeconomic research, microeconomic research, labor market and workforce studies,…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Technology Planning, Labor Market, Information Technology
Morris, Paul – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
Education reform is increasingly portrayed as a quest to achieve a "world class" education system through a process of identifying and adopting the practices of those systems whose pupils perform best in league tables of achievement. This is the rationale for the range of new policies proposed by the coalition government in the schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Evidence, Educational Change
Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2006
School systems that track students into certain classes and academic programs based on ability end up worsening disparities between high and low performers, according to a far-ranging report that offers recommendations for improving education across Europe. The study, commissioned by a branch of the European Union (EU), also found that bilingual…
Descriptors: Reports, Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, Track System (Education)
European Educational Research Journal, 2004
This article presents two reports on the interviews with school principals in Belgium and France. The first report presents the results of interviews with 5 Flemish secondary school leaders. The purpose of the investigation was to gain an explorative insight of their use of and their remarks on the recent initiated systems to provide schools with…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Foreign Countries, Principals, Reports
