Sjøberg, S and Jenkins, E orcid.org/0000-0002-1908-1862 (2022) PISA: a political project and a research agenda. Studies in Science Education, 58 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 0305-7267
Abstract
PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) is one of two large scale international comparative projects of student assessment that now exert considerable influence upon school science education policy, the other being TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study). This paper focuses on PISA, now the most influential study. This article outlines the origins of PISA, identifies some of the challenges in its construction and the claims made for it. It argues that while the statistical and methodological aspects of PISA have received much research attention, other elements of PISA have been largely ignored. In particular, there are several outcomes of PISA testing that point towards a significant research agenda. In addition, the political, ideological and economic assumptions underpinning the PISA project have implications for school science curriculum policy that deserve closer scrutiny and debate.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any med- ium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Science education, PISA, comparative education, globalisation, education policy |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2020 14:40 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2022 14:59 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/03057267.2020.1824473 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:166096 |