Educational Policy Evaluation through International Comparative Assessments
Printing on demand, production and shipping can take up to 2 weeks.

Rolf StrietholtWilfried BosJan-Eric GustafssonMonica Rosén (Editor)

Educational Policy Evaluation through International Comparative Assessments

2014,  246  pages,  paperback,  34,90 €,  ISBN 978-3-8309-3091-4

back to overview

One of the most salient findings from the field of education is that there are huge national differences in student achievement as shown in international comparative studies like PISA and TIMSS. The shockingly large gap between the highest performing countries (mostly in East Asia) and many European countries corresponds to a difference in attainment of two years of schooling. Although this finding has been replicated in several studies, the reasons for and consequences of such differences are currently not well understood.

This book is a collection of essays and studies by leading experts in international comparative education who demonstrate how international comparative assessments can be used to evaluate educational policies. The volume is organized into two parts that address, first, theoretical foundations and methodological developments in the field of international assessments, and, second, innovative substantive studies that utilize international data for policy evaluation studies. The intention of this book is to revisit the idea of ‘using the world as an educational laboratory’, both to inform policy and to facilitate theory development.


Contributors

Kim Bellens, Wilfried Bos, Charalambos Y. Charalambous, Demetris Demetriou, Sarah Gielen, Eugenio J. Gonzalez, Jan-Eric Gustafsson, Eric A. Hanushek, Leonidas Kyriakides, Petter Laake, Anne-Catherine Lehre, Hongqiang Liu, Patrick Onghena, Anastasia Panayiotou, Monica Rosén, Martin Schlotter, Guido Schwerdt, Joseph Andrew Sexton, Jan Van Damme, Wim Van den Noortgate, Rolf Strietholt, Ludger Woessmann.

You might also be interested in:

Schülerfeedback in der Grundschule

Gerlinde Lenske

Schülerfeedback in der Grundschule

Untersuchung zur Validität

Schulqualität und Schulentwicklung

Michael Pfeifer (Editor)

Schulqualität und Schulentwicklung

Theorien, Analysen und Potenziale

Aus- und Fortbildung der Lehrkräfte in Hinblick auf Verbesserung der Diagnosefähigkeit, Umgang mit Heterogenität und individuelle Förderung

Manuel Ade-ThurowWilfried BosAndreas HelmkeTuyet HelmkeNina HovengaMorena LebensGerlinde LenskeDetlev LeutnerGiang Hong PhamAnna-Katharina PraetoriusFriedrich-Wilhelm SchraderChristian SpodenJoachim Wirth (Editor)

Aus- und Fortbildung der Lehrkräfte in Hinblick auf Verbesserung der Diagnosefähigkeit, Umgang mit Heterogenität und individuelle Förderung

Damit Unterricht gelingt

Christian Fischer (Editor)

Damit Unterricht gelingt

Von der Qualitätsanalyse zur Qualitätsentwicklung