“…The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is one of the most prominent large-scale assessments that has had a significant influence within the context of education policy developments worldwide. By correlating student achievement to the quality of teachers and teaching, PISA and other international comparative studies brought teachers to the forefront of the global education policy agenda (Darling-Hammond, 2017;Tatto, 2007;Weidman, Jacob, & Casebeer, 2014) and many countries have striven to reform their teacher education systems in order to improve student performance (Murray, Swennen, & Kosnin, 2019;Tatto & Menter, 2019). This global reform wave is characterized by standardization, posing several challenges to teacher education, including the "primacy of policy" in terms of the politicization of teacher education and a new focus on the value and usefulness of teacher education (Trippestad, Swennen, & Werler, 2017, p. 9).…”