Examining the influence of international large-scale assessments on national education policies

Fischman, Gustavo E.; Topper, Amelia Marcetti; Silova, Iveta; Goebel, Janna; Holloway, Jessica

doi:10.1080/02680939.2018.1460493

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“…The most comprehensive review of the impact of cross-national assessments on education policy is a recent meta-study by Fischman et al (2018) that analyzes all major ILSAs, 7…”

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“…Canadian and Argentine provinces. Fischman et al (2018) associate the global prominence of PISA with the early, highly publicized cases of countries' response to the "PISA shock" and the OECD's active program of technical assistance to countries seeking to improve their results. A key factor that emerges from our own research is the perception of middle-income countries such as Peru, Chile, Ecuador, and Brazil that PISA performance sets the global standard for education system quality and also for assessment quality.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Fischman et al (2018) review notes that while many studies document changes in education policy in the aftermath of PISA results, it is impossible to conclude causality. But the sheer volume of cases is impressive and Fischman et al (2018) describe four different channels through which PISA appears to affect countries' education policy:…”

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“…9 A third response is policies to raise teacher quality, such as in-service training, evaluation, new teacher development, and standards. Studies in Spain, Poland, Japan, Brazil, and Colombia, among other countries, have documented changes in teacher-related policies in reaction to PISA results (Fischman et al, 2018).…”

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“…Fischman et al (2018) administered a small survey to 21 "experts" directly involved with PISA in their countries as well as 24 "non-experts" familiar with the test and its results. While 96 percent of respondents agreed that PISA results are "used" in country policy, 43 percent of the experts thought results were mainly "mis-used" (either misunderstood by policymakers, "decontextualized" or mainly used for "name, shame and blame" purposes).…”

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Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa have not implemented testing of children's learning that can be benchmarked regionally or globally. In contrast, in the last two decades, almost all countries in Latin America have participated in regionally and globally benchmarked testing initiatives. Our analysis of the political economy of cross-national learning measurement in Latin America suggests that policymakers perceive the risks of exposing their education system's performance by joining cross-national assessments, but they also value the quality of the data generated, the strengthening of domestic technical capacity, and the political benefits in using comparative results to argue for reforms or to advertise progress. We document that in Ecuador and Peru cross-national tests played an important role in both stimulating and justifying reforms that have produced major improvements in learning. In sub-Saharan Africa, no cross-national test has been implemented as consistently or widely as the Latin American regional test. The context in Africa makes regional cooperation on cross-national testing more daunting-countries are poorer and more linguistically diverse than in Latin America, raising the relative costs of developing and administering crossnational tests. The experience of Latin America suggests that a coordinated and efficient application of resources in implementing cross-national tests in Africa, on the part of countries and with support of the international community, could help build countries' national capacity, strengthen focus on learning, support better research, and help diffuse reforms that raise learning.

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“…The most comprehensive review of the impact of cross-national assessments on education policy is a recent meta-study by Fischman et al (2018) that analyzes all major ILSAs, 7…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%