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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Engel, Laura C.
• Frizzell, Matthew O.

Titel

Competitive comparison and PISA bragging rights: sub-national uses of the OECD's PISA in Canada and the USA

Ist Teil von

• Discourse (Abingdon, England), 2015-10, Vol.36 (5), p.665-682

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Participation in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) has continuously expanded: from 43 systems in 2000 to 65 systems in the 2012 cycle, with 71 signed up for PISA 2015. There also has been a growth in sub-national participation, expanding PISA's reach beyond the nation-state. This paper explores sub-national PISA participation in Canada and the USA, asking how PISA is being used within sub-national education policy spaces. We draw on analysis of documents and data from interviews with officials at sub-national, national, and international levels. Findings illustrate some of the diverse motivations and uses of PISA, providing insights into the effects of PISA at the sub-national scale. As such, we argue that competitive comparison in education has deepened through the enhanced granularity of international large-scale assessment data to new scales beyond the nation-state.