The Primacy Of Pisa

Author : Joseph M. Piro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781498578509

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The Primacy of PISA by Joseph M. Piro Pdf

Every three years the world awaits the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment or PISA, the rankings of school systems overseen by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Nations around the world look eagerly and apprehensively to see where their students rank on these tests of competence in, mainly, science, math and reading. This book provides a window into PISA and its power. What exactly is PISA? How are its tests developed? Who takes the test? What countries tend to outperform and which underperform? What do countries learn from PISA? Why is PISA both revered and feared? And, most importantly, does PISA improve education globally? The first PISA, in 2000, included 32 countries. In 2018, nearly eighty nations took part in PISA. That number is expected to double by 2030. This may mean that students in over 80% of the world’s countries will take the PISA exams. This scenario has made PISA more important than ever. This book probes topics and themes related to “the world’s most important exam” and why many view a high PISA ranking—rightly or wrongly—as global education’s seal of approval. Because of this, PISA has been called a disruptor, a test which can trigger major reform in school systems around the world. But is it the PISA rankings that are the real disruptor or the decisions countries make because of their rankings? These decisions often involve systemic changes in teaching and learning which can substantially alter how a country measures and prioritizes its education system.

Author : Francis Patrick KENRICK (successively R.C. Bishop of Arath and of Philadelphia, and Archbishop of Baltimore.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019969392

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The Primacy of the Apostolic See, and the Authority of General Councils Vindicated. In a Series of Letters to the Rt. Rev. J. H. Hopkins by Francis Patrick KENRICK (successively R.C. Bishop of Arath and of Philadelphia, and Archbishop of Baltimore.) Pdf

Author : Florian Waldow,Gita Steiner-Khamsi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350057302

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Understanding PISA’s Attractiveness by Florian Waldow,Gita Steiner-Khamsi Pdf

Understanding PISA's Attractiveness examines how policy makers and the media interpret the results of PISA league-leaders, losers, and slippers in ways that suit their own reform agendas. As a result, a myriad of explanations exist as to why an educational system is high or low performing. The chapters, written by leading scholars from Australia, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK and the USA, provide a fascinating account of why results from PISA and other international large-scale assessments are interpreted and translated differently in the various countries. The analyses in this book bring to light the wide array of idiosyncratic projections into these international tests. In some countries, these tests are also used to scandalise one's own educational system and to generate quasi-external reform pressure. Compiled by two leading scholars in comparative education, Florian Waldow and Gita Steiner-Khamsi, this book offers a truly global perspective on the uses and abuses of PISA and will be of great interest to students and academics working in educational policy, comparative education and political science and those working on large-scale data sets.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Church history
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4TUY

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Handbook of the Geography and Statistics of the Church by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191588822

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Italy in the Central Middle Ages by David Abulafia Pdf

The eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries saw a great transformation in the political, cultural and economic life of the Italian peninsula, marked by the rise of the autonomous city-states in the north and centre, the expansion of international trade, and the creation of a wealthy southern kingdom which reached the peak of its power in this period, before fragmenting in two in the late thirteenth century. It was also the period in which the various dialects that we now call the Italian language came into being, and in which Tuscan in particular became the vehicle for impressive literary innovation. Presenting a rounded view of Italy at a time when it was the most dynamic region in western Europe, this book looks at Italy in its entirety, rather than concentrating largely on the north, as previous studies have done. It also includes expert coverage of topics such as the family and the Jewish, Greek, and Muslim minority communities, in addition to its coverage of developments in the cities, rural life, trade, the monarchy, papal Italy, and language and culture.

Author : William Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108010139

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A History of Pisa by William Heywood Pdf

Heywood's 1921 history of Pisa is a valuable addition to the study of the historiography of medieval Italy.

Author : Mary Stroll
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004139879

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Calixtus the Second, 1119-1124 by Mary Stroll Pdf

This new interpretation of the reign of Calixtus II (1119-1124) challenges the conventional analysis explaining why this life-long opponent of the emperor, Henry V, agreed to compromise over imperial investitures of bishops in the Concordat of Worms of 1122.

Author : Miguel A. Pereyra,Hans-Georg Kotthoff,Robert Cowen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460917400

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

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.

Author : Lee Del Col,Garth Stahl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000879971

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Working in a Survival School by Lee Del Col,Garth Stahl Pdf

Working in a Survival School documents how global educational policies trickle down and influence school cultures and the lives of educators and educational leaders. The research traces the everyday work and experience of educators within an all-boys Catholic college suffering an unprecedented decline in enrolment numbers. In short, it was a school in ‘survival mode.’ Drawing on Dorothy Smith’s scholarship on Institutional Ethnography, the authors document how the school operated and how its efforts to survive influenced the daily work of educators.Institutional ethnography reveals the school as a bounded space subject to a variety of competing local and translocal forces that are historical, political and economic in nature. Exploring the discursive and material effects of policy on both the work and identities of educators, the authors illustrate how the everyday experience of being an educator is shaped by marketisation and how leaders engage in stratagems to promote the school as a vehicle of educational excellence and quality to lure clientele. Building on existing scholarship in educational policy studies and new public management, Working in a Survival School considers how the global marketisation of education systems is experienced in one school fighting to survive. This book is of interest to educators, school leaders and academics interested in policy enactment.

Author : Tara Fenwick,Eric Mangez,Jenny Ozga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317814573

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World Yearbook of Education 2014 by Tara Fenwick,Eric Mangez,Jenny Ozga Pdf

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on a major and highly significant development in the governing of education across the globe: the use of knowledge-based technologies as key policy sources. A combination of factors has produced this shift: first, the massive expansion of technological capacity signalled by the arrival of ‘big data’ that allows for the collection, circulation and processing of extensive system knowledge. The rise of data has been observed and discussed extensively, but its role in governing and the rise of comparison as a basis for action is now a determining practice in the field of education. Comparison provides the justification for ‘modernising’ policy in education, both in the developed and developing world, as national policy makers (selectively) seek templates of success from the high performers and demand solutions to apparent underperformance through the adoption of the policies favoured by the likes of Singapore, Finland and Korea. In parallel, the growth of particular forms of expertise: the rise and rise of educational consultancy, the growth of private (for profit) involvement in provision of educational goods and services and the increasing consolidation of networks of influence in the promotion of ‘best practice’ are affecting policy decisions. Through these developments, the nature of knowledge is altered, along with the relationship between knowledge and politics. Knowledge in this context is co-constructed: it is not disciplinary knowledge, but knowledge that emerges in the sharing of experience. This book provides a global snapshot of a changing educational world by giving detailed examples of a fundamental shift in the governing and practice of education learning by: • Assessing approaches to the changing nature of comparative knowledge and information • Tracking the translation and mobilisation of these knowledges in the governing of education/learning; • Identification of the key experts and knowledge producers/circulators/translators and analysis of how best to understand their influence; • Mapping of the global production of these knowledges in terms of their range and reach the interrelationships of actors and their effects in different national settings. Drawing on material from around the world, the book brings together scholars from different backgrounds who provide a tapestry of examples of the global production and national reception and mediation of these knowledges and who show how change enters different national spaces and consider their effects in different national settings.

Author : Romuald Normand,Jean-Louis Derouet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317210603

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A European Politics of Education by Romuald Normand,Jean-Louis Derouet Pdf

A European Politics of Education proposes a sociology of education establishing connections between empirical data coming from European-scale comparative surveys, normative assumptions structuring actors’ representations and interpretative judgements, and a specific focus on Lifelong Learning policy areas. It invites readers to think about the place of standards, expertise and calculations in the European space from a common perspective, supported by a tradition of critical sociology and European political studies. The book: Addresses an important agenda: how the policies and politics of supranational Europe are making a European educational space Contains a response to the emergence of new epistemic governance and instruments at European level Contains contributions from the EU and the UK which give a comprehensive selection of perspectives and analysis of the field as it concerns Europe The complexity of the contemporary European education policy space is addressed here with new lines of inquiry as well as a reflexive outlook, on standardization, policy-making and actor engagement. Students and researchers of European policy studies, education policy analysts and theorists will all be particularly interested readers.

Author : Ludwig Freiherr von Pastor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Papacy
ISBN : UOM:39015009208029

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The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages by Ludwig Freiherr von Pastor Pdf

Author : Charles D. Stanton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473856295

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Medieval Maritime Warfare by Charles D. Stanton Pdf

This sweeping history of maritime warfare through the Middle Ages ranges from the 8th century to the 14th, covering the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. After the fall of Rome, the sea becomes the center of conflict for Western Civilization. In a world of few roads and great disorder, it is where power is projected and wealth is sought. Yet, since this turbulent period in the history of maritime warfare has rarely been studied, it is little known and even less understood. In Medieval Maritime Warfare, Charles Stanton depicts the development of maritime warfare from the end of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance, recounting the wars waged in the Mediterranean by the Byzantines, Ottomans, Normans, Crusaders, and the Italian maritime republics, as well as those fought in northern waters by the Vikings, English, French and the Hanseatic League. Weaving together details of medieval ship design and naval strategy with vivid depictions of seafaring culture, this pioneering study makes a significant contribution to maritime history.

Author : James Hall,Ariel Lindorff,Pamela Sammons
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030448103

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International Perspectives in Educational Effectiveness Research by James Hall,Ariel Lindorff,Pamela Sammons Pdf

This edited volume explores questions about ‘what works’, how, for whom, when, and why in education, and considers how and to what extent such knowledge can be understood and extended across countries and different educational systems. The book starts by presenting an overview of the history of educational effectiveness research and offers examples of current theories of educational effectiveness. Next, it provides exemplars of effectiveness studies that report on educational systems, policies, and practices from across six continents. These studies vary in their research methods and outcomes, illustrating a field of research that is conscious of its origins, its agenda, and its ambition to understand and improve the functioning of schools, networks, and education systems around the world. The book brings these threads together within the final chapter and uses them to signpost directions for future research. 'International Perspectives in Educational Effectiveness Research is an excellent and timely addition to the educational effectiveness literature. It offers a rigorous and insightful range of international perspectives that will be of interest to researchers, policy makers and students of the field.' - Professor Christopher Chapman, University of Glasgow, UK & President-Elect of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement 'This important new volume brings up to date the contributions of educational effectiveness research to the development of policy and practice in the field over the last 50 years. Drawing together the ideas of many of the major researchers in the field, it provides a comprehensive analysis of these earlier contributions, leading to critical commentaries that point to areas for future attention. The editors make use of expertise from a range of disciplines to strengthen the themes that are addressed. Most importantly, the book emphasises the need to pay greater attention to the challenge of equity - arguably the most significant challenge facing education systems internationally. In this respect, a particular strength of the book is the accounts provided from many different parts of the world. These underline the importance of context, a factor often previously overlooked in this field of research. Given all of this, I have no doubt that International Perspectives in Educational Effectiveness Research will become a major source for practitioners, policy-makers and researchers.' - Professor Mel Ainscow, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Manchester & Professor of Education, University of Glasgow, UK

Author : Kathryn Blair Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107139084

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The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land by Kathryn Blair Moore Pdf

Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.