Contribution to Book
Understanding PISA and its impact on policy initiative: a review of the evidence
What Can PISA 2012 Data Tell Us? Performance and Challenges in Five Participating Southeast Asian Countries
(2016)
Abstract
In addition to monitoring the quality of education in national systems, the PISA empirical results provide the necessary evidence base for making changes to both policies and practices in education. In this regards, this chapter presents evidence from two systematic reviews of the impact of large scale assessments including PISA on educational policy. Particular attention is given to the types of assessment programmes undertaken, their goals and uses, the stages of the policy process informed by assessments; and the facilitators of and barriers to the uses of assessment data in the educational policy-making process. This chapter concludes with considerations regarding how the capacities of large-scale assessments to inform both policy development and implementation may be increased.
Keywords
- Asia Pacific region,
- PISA,
- Large scale assessments,
- Educational policy,
- Education policy making,
- Systematic review,
- Developing countries,
- International studies,
- Evidence based policy,
- Assessment programs
Disciplines
Publication Date
2016
Editor
Lei Mee Thien, Nordin Abd Razak, John P. Reeves, I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan
Publisher
Sense Publishers
ISBN
9789463004664 (pbk)
Citation Information
Lietz, Lietz; Tobin, Mollie; Nugroho, Dita (2016) Understanding PISA and its impact on policy initiative: a review of the evidence. In What Can PISA 2012 Data Tell Us? Performance and Challenges in Five Participating Southeast Asian Countries edited by Lei Mee Thien, Nordin Abd Razak, John P. Reeves and
I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers