Pisa And Pirls The Effects Of Culture And School Environment

Author : Kay Cheng Soh
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789813276550

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Pisa And Pirls: The Effects Of Culture And School Environment by Kay Cheng Soh Pdf

International comparative studies of student achievement have caught the attention of governments, policy-makers, school leaders and educational researchers globally. They have become benchmarks of education for countries in the world and provide a broad perspective for countries to evaluate their education achievement. However, culture and school environment are two critical factors affecting educational achievement that deserve careful consideration and re-interpretation. This book brings light to these conceptual and methodological issues.The 14 articles in this book deal with various aspects of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), including cultural and social environments, principals' roles and views, achievements in Reading, Science, and Mathematics, and the trustworthiness of international comparisons. The articles use PISA and PIRLS data to present new insights and interpretations of international surveys. These insights will help educators, administrators, and policy-makers understand the working mechanisms of their school systems and the relationships between students' achievement and the culture and school environment they are in.This book is a companion volume to the author's earlier publication — PISA: Issues and Effects in Singapore, East Asia, and the World (World Scientific, 2017).

Author : Chong Ho Yu,Hyun Seo Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811531569

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Creating Change to Improve Science and Mathematics Education by Chong Ho Yu,Hyun Seo Lee Pdf

This book discusses the merits and potential shortcomings of Hong Kong STEM education from Grade 8 to Grade 12. Based on concurrent triangulated mixed-method methodology, which integrates both quantitative and qualitative procedures, it describes various change models and proposes new models that are considered compatible with Western cultures.

Author : Louis Volante
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315440507

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The PISA Effect on Global Educational Governance by Louis Volante Pdf

The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international achievement measure that assesses 15-year-old student performance in the areas of reading, mathematics, and science literacy in over 70 countries and economies triennially. By presenting an in-depth examination of PISA’s role in education governance and policy discourses, this book provides the reader with a critical analysis of the educational change process within our increasingly global educational policy environment. Exploring the prominent socio-political drivers of large-scale educational reform across the globe, chapter authors examine PISA’s national and global implications from a diverse range of regional contexts. Through the presentation of cross-disciplinary viewpoints and topical issues related to the PISA international survey, this volume explains the degree to which PISA-focused research is linked to national educational policy discourses and international education agendas.

Author : Louis Volante
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315440514

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The PISA Effect on Global Educational Governance by Louis Volante Pdf

The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international achievement measure that assesses 15-year-old student performance in the areas of reading, mathematics, and science literacy in over 70 countries and economies triennially. By presenting an in-depth examination of PISA’s role in education governance and policy discourses, this book provides the reader with a critical analysis of the educational change process within our increasingly global educational policy environment. Exploring the prominent socio-political drivers of large-scale educational reform across the globe, chapter authors examine PISA’s national and global implications from a diverse range of regional contexts. Through the presentation of cross-disciplinary viewpoints and topical issues related to the PISA international survey, this volume explains the degree to which PISA-focused research is linked to national educational policy discourses and international education agendas.

Author : Nuno Crato
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030590314

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Improving a Country’s Education by Nuno Crato Pdf

This open access book compares and contrasts the results of international student assessments in ten countries. The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) released the results of its 2018 assessment in December 2019. This book reflects the debates that typically follow the release of these results and focuses on the causes of differences between countries. Such causes include continuous decline in one country, improvement combined with increasing internal inequalities in another country, or rapid improvement in spite of an outdated curriculum in yet another. In addition, the book discusses a number of general questions: Is knowledge outdated? Are computers taking over and replacing teachers? Are schools killing creativity? Are we adequately preparing the next generation? Are schools failing to educate our kids? The book starts out with a summary of PISA’s evolution and PISA results, and an explanation of the major factors that play a role in changes in countries’ results. The next ten chapters are devoted to ten specific countries, offering a summary of data and an explanation of the major drives for changes in education results for each one. Each chapter includes a short description of the country’s educational system as well as the impact of PISA and other ILSA studies on the country’s educational policies. The chapters also include a timeline of policy measures and main hallmarks of the country’s educational evolution, discussing the impact of these measures on its PISA results. A final reference chapter explains what PISA is, what it measures and how. While highlighting the 2018 results, the book also takes into consideration previous results, as well as long-term initiatives. This book gathers the contribution of well-known and respected experts in the field. Specialists such as Eric Hanushek, for the US, Tim Oates, for England, Montse Gomendio, for Spain, Gunda Tire, for Estonia, and all other contributors draw on their vast experience and statistical analysis expertise to draw a set of rich country lessons and recommendations that are invaluable for all of those who care about improving a country’s education system.

Author : Michael Bender,Byron G. Adams,Ype H. Poortinga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781108476621

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Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology by Michael Bender,Byron G. Adams,Ype H. Poortinga Pdf

Cross-cultural studies require sound methodology and psychometrics. This book outlines advances in assessment from many expert perspectives.

Author : Cheng Yong Tan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811544910

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Family Cultural Capital and Student Achievement by Cheng Yong Tan Pdf

This book focuses on the relationship between cultural capital and student achievement. It fills the gap in the literature on large-scale quantitative studies of the effects of cultural capital. In particular, the review of empirical evidence presented, especially that from studies analyzing large-scale, international data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), makes a substantial contribution to the literature. This review addresses the knowledge gap on reviews investigating the effects of different forms of cultural capital on student achievement as compared to the more established evidence base in the related field of socioeconomic status.

Author : William C. Smith
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927724

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The Global Testing Culture by William C. Smith Pdf

The past thirty years have seen a rapid expansion of testing, exposing students worldwide to tests that are now, more than ever, standardized and linked to high-stakes outcomes. The use of testing as a policy tool has been legitimized within international educational development to measure education quality in the vast majority of countries worldwide. The embedded nature and normative power of high-stakes standardized testing across national contexts can be understood as a global testing culture. The global testing culture permeates all aspects of education, from financing, to parental involvement, to teacher and student beliefs and practices. The reinforcing nature of the global testing culture leads to an environment where testing becomes synonymous with accountability, which becomes synonymous with education quality. Underlying the global testing culture is a set of values identified from the increasing literature on world culture. These include: education as a human right, academic intelligence, faith in science, decentralization, and neoliberalism. Each of these values highlights different aspects of the dialogue in support of high-stakes standardized testing. The wide approval of these values and their ability to legitimate various aspects of high-stakes testing reinforces the taken-for-granted notion that such tests are effective and appropriate education practices. However, a large body of literature emphasizes the negative unintended consequences – teaching to the test, reshaping the testing pool, the inequitable distribution of school resources and teachers’ attention, and reconstructing the role of the student, teacher, and parent – commonly found when standardized, census-based tests are combined with high-stakes outcomes for educators or students. This book problematizes this culture by providing critical perspectives that challenge the assumptions of the culture and describe how the culture manifests in national contexts. The volume makes it clear that testing, per se, is not the problem. Instead it is how tests are administered, used or misused, and linked to accountability that provide the global testing culture with its powerful ability to shape schools and society and lead to its unintended, undesirable consequences.

Author : Sing Kong Lee,Wing On Lee,Ee Ling Low
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789814560085

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Educational Policy Innovations by Sing Kong Lee,Wing On Lee,Ee Ling Low Pdf

This volume presents how high performing education systems over the world are constantly innovating their educational policies to nurture their citizens for the challenges of the future economy and the anticipation of the unknown. This volume includes a state-of-the-art review of the literature in this field, several commissioned focal chapters focusing on the distinctive case of Singapore and internationally commissioned chapters of several other accomplished education systems around the world. A comparative study of Singapore against other high performing education systems is included to provide greater insights to the possible applications to other education systems.

Author : Kajsa Yang Hansen,Jan-Eric Gustafsson,Monica Rosén,Sari Sulkunen,Kari Nissinen,Pekka Kupari,Ragnar F. Ólafsson,Júlíus K. Björnsson,Liv Sissel Grønmo,Louise Rønberg,Jan Mejding
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789289327725

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Northern Lights on TIMSS and PIRLS 2011 by Kajsa Yang Hansen,Jan-Eric Gustafsson,Monica Rosén,Sari Sulkunen,Kari Nissinen,Pekka Kupari,Ragnar F. Ólafsson,Júlíus K. Björnsson,Liv Sissel Grønmo,Louise Rønberg,Jan Mejding Pdf

How is reading literacy taught in Nordic classrooms, and how is this influenced by the curricula? How can we improve mathematics teaching in Nordic classrooms? What is the relationship between school performance and policy variations? How do teachers’ attitudes, beliefs and practices influence pupils’ learning outcomes? What characterizes the top performing pupils, and how can we stimulate more pupils to perform at the highest levels? These are some of the questions that are discussed in this collection of articles that are based on the results of the IEA studies TIMSS and PIRLS 2011. The articles aim to provide input for policy discussions and further policy development within the Nordic countries. Therefore, the main target groups are educational ministers and policymakers at all levels. These analyses will also provide input to the joint Nordic initiatives on educational development.

Author : Knut Schwippert
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783830967590

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Progress in Reading Literacy by Knut Schwippert Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460917400

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PISA Under Examination by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Helene Ärlestig,Olof Johansson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030387594

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Educational Authorities and the Schools by Helene Ärlestig,Olof Johansson Pdf

This book describes and analyses the organisation, functions and development of national educational authorities and agencies and the influence they have on local schools in 20 countries around the world. It examines the governing chain in the respective countries from both a theoretical and descriptive perspective. It does so against the background of the stability and rigour of the governing chains having been challenged, with some researchers considering the chain to be broken. However, the view that comes to the fore in this book is that the chain is still present and contains both vertical implementation structures and intervening spaces for policy interpretation. How schools become successful is important for the individual students as well as the local community and the national state. A vast quantity of research has looked at what happens in schools and classrooms. At the same time, national governance and politics as well as local prerequisites are known to exert influence on schools and their results to a high degree. Societal priorities, problems and traditions provide variety in how governance is executed. This book provides an international overview of the similarities and differences between educational agencies and how their work influences schools.

Author : Amy Seely Flint,Mark Vicars,Amanda Muscat,Beryl Exley,Kylie Shaw,Maria Bennet,Robyn Ewing,Jaydene Barnes,Lisa Kervin,Jessica Mantei,Jeanne Iorio,Catherine Hamm,Mitchell Parker,Marcelle Cacciattolo,Lawry Mahon,Sarah Tartakover
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781394183838

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Literacy in Australia, Print and Interactive E-Text by Amy Seely Flint,Mark Vicars,Amanda Muscat,Beryl Exley,Kylie Shaw,Maria Bennet,Robyn Ewing,Jaydene Barnes,Lisa Kervin,Jessica Mantei,Jeanne Iorio,Catherine Hamm,Mitchell Parker,Marcelle Cacciattolo,Lawry Mahon,Sarah Tartakover Pdf

Infused with our authors' personal experiences teaching, Literacy in Australia, 4th Edition is delivered as a full colour printed textbook with an interactive eBook code included. With a prioritised focus on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures featured throughout the text, and a greater focus on using ICT in the classroom, pre-service teachers will be well-equipped with the knowledge of what kinds of activities they can include in and out of the classroom for an enriching learning experience for their students.

Author : Robin Alexander,Christine Doddington,John Gray,Linda Hargreaves,Ruth Kershner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136328718

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The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys by Robin Alexander,Christine Doddington,John Gray,Linda Hargreaves,Ruth Kershner Pdf

The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys is the outcome of the Cambridge Primary Review – England’s biggest enquiry into primary education for over forty years. Fully independent of government, it was launched in 2006 to investigate the condition and future of primary education at a time of change and uncertainty and after two decades of almost uninterrupted reform. Ranging over ten broad themes and drawing on a vast array of evidence, the Review published thiry-one interim reports, including twenty-eight surveys of published research, provoking media headlines and public debate, before presenting its final report and recommendations. This book brings together the twenty-eight research surveys, specially commissioned from sixty-five leading academics in the areas under scrutiny and now revised and updated, to create what is probably the most comprehensive overview and evaluation of research in primary education yet published. A particular feature is the prominence given to international and comparative perspectives. With an introduction from Robin Alexander, the Review’s director, the book is divided into eight sections, covering: children’s lives and voices: school, home and community children’s development, learning, diversity and needs aims, values and contexts for primary education the structure and content of primary education outcomes, standards and assessment in primary education teaching in primary schools: structures and processes teaching in primary schools: training, development and workforce reform policy frameworks: governance, funding, reform and quality assurance. The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys is an essential reference tool for professionals, researchers, students and policy-makers working in the fields of early years, primary and secondary education.