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How to Mess with PISA: Learning from Japanese "Kokugo" Curriculum Experts.
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To remove cultural bias is critical for the legitimacy of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as an internationally reliable academic assessment as discussed by the authors. But, since its inception, PISA has mad...Abstract:
To remove cultural bias is critical for the legitimacy of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as an internationally reliable academic assessment. Since its inception, PISA has mad...read more
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Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
TL;DR: The assessment program began in 1997 and over 70 countries have participated at least once as discussed by the authors, and every three years, a randomly selected group of 15-year-old students take the test, which primarily focuses on one key subject.
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An invitation to ‘negative’ comparative education
TL;DR: The authors reflect upon their journey of learning to do comparative education research over the last decade and half, which involves transnational moves from Japan, Canada, US, Australia and back to the UK.
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Datafication of schooling in Japan: an epistemic critique through the ‘problem of Japanese education’
Keita Takayama,Bob Lingard +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the increasing encroachment of data into the Japanese education system, in particular, the use of data associated with standardised academic assessments for governance purposes, and expose the possible limits of the existing English-language scholarship on this phenomenon.
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Reimagining Modern Education: Contributions from Modern Japanese Philosophy and Practice?:
Hikaru Komatsu,Jeremy Rappleye +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that there is a tendency to overlook Japan, perhaps because it appears highly modern, given that some of the countries in the world appear to be "too modern".
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How to achieve a ‘revolution’ : Assembling the subnational, national and global in the formation of a new, ‘scientific’ assessment in Japan
Keita Takayama,Bob Lingard +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the complexities, contingencies and tensions involved in the creation of a new, "scientific" assessment in what we call Prefecture A in Japan are traced. But the focus of this paper is not on prefecture A.
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The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity
TL;DR: Performativity is a new mode of state regulation which makes it possible to govern in an "advanced liberal" way as mentioned in this paper, and it requires individual practitioners to organize themselves as a response to targets, indicators and evaluations.
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After Method: Mess in Social Science Research
TL;DR: The authors argues that methods are always political and that they are involved in creating the social reality we want to understand and reason about, and they argue that many social reality is vague and ephemeral.
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Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization
TL;DR: Chen as mentioned in this paper argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war, and that the work of deimperialization became impossible to imagine in imperial centers such as Japan and the United States.
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PISA 2009 Technical Report
TL;DR: The PISA 2009 Technical Report as mentioned in this paper describes the methodology underlying the 2009 PISA survey and examines additional features related to the implementation of the project at a level of detail that allows researchers to understand and replicate its analyses.
Measuring Student Knowledge and Skills: A New Framework for Assessment.
TL;DR: In this article, international indicators can describe the levels of achievement in various countries, to which others might aspire, and can provide direction for schools' instructional efforts and for students' learning as well as insights into curriculum strengths and weaknesses.