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From the 23rd to 26th of November 2009 in La Palma island, in the Canaries, the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) organized an international symposium entitled PISA under Examination: Changing Knowledge, Changing Tests, and Changing Schools. During four days seventeen leading scholars of Europe and America presented their contributions to debate the different problematiques of the remarkable phenomenon represented by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment or PISA. PISA is not merely an educational event. It is also a media circus which involves the public rehearsal for reasons for failure or success; and even, in some cases, public and political and academic explanations about why 'failure' was not really that, and why 'success' was not really that either. At the centre of all these indications, we find the growing influence of international agencies on education and schooling which is decisively contributing to a marketisation of the field of education, in the context of an increasingly multilevel and fragmented arena for educational governance based on the formulation, the regulation and the transnational coordination and convergence of policies, buttressed at the same time by the diffusion of persuasive discursive practice. Organized in four sections entitled The Comparative Challenges of the OCDE PISA Programme, PISA and School Knowledge, The Assessment of PISA, School Effectiveness and the Socio-cultural Dimension, PISA and the Immigrant Student Question, and Extreme Visions of PISA: Germany and Finland, the contributions of this book offers a comprehensive approach of all these challenging and significant issues written from different and distinct research and academic traditions.

Educational change. --- Educational evaluation. --- Programme for International Student Assessment. --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Education - General --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Educational assessment --- Educational program evaluation --- Evaluation research in education --- Instructional systems analysis --- Program evaluation in education --- Self-evaluation in education --- Education. --- Education, general. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Evaluation --- Change, Educational --- Education change --- Education reform --- Educational reform --- Reform, Education --- School reform --- Educational planning --- Educational innovations

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Religiöse Bildung und Erziehung stehen insbesondere seit dem 11. September 2001 erneut zur Diskussion. Die Herausforderungen der pluralen Gesellschaft erzwingen nicht nur eine rationale Aufklärung in Sachen Religion, sondern machen eine Erziehung zur praktischen Toleranz für den interkulturellen und interreligiösen Dialog notwendig, der die Wahrheitsfrage nicht suspendiert. In kritischer Rezeption von PISA und anderen Bildungsstudien wird untersucht, welche tatsächlichen Handlungsspielräume für die bildungspolitische Ausgestaltung eines Staat-Kirche-Verhältnisses sowohl durch das Europarecht als auch durch das Recht der Mitgliedsstaaten bestehen. Die Ausgestaltung des Religionsunterrichts ist in Europa aufgrund unterschiedlicher Bildungstraditionen sehr unterschiedlich erfolgt. Dieses Buch leistet einen Beitrag zur Entwicklung europäisch vergleichbarer Kompetenzen und Standards für eine "religious literacy". Die allgemeine und interkulturelle Pädagogik und die evangelische Theologie werden dazu in europäischer Bildungsperspektive bildungspolitisch, rechtshermeneutisch und bildungstheoretisch ins Gespräch gebracht.

Religious education --- Church and state. --- Christianity and state --- Separation of church and state --- State and church --- State, The --- Ethical education --- Theological education --- Education --- Moral education --- Programme for International Student Assessment. --- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. --- International Programme for Student Assessment --- OECD/PISA --- PISA --- Programa Internacional de Avaliação de Alunos --- Program for International Student Assessment --- Starptautiskā skolēnu novērtēšanas programma --- Programme international pour le suivi des acquis des élèves --- Programa Internacional de Evaluación de Estudiantes --- European Law. --- National Law. --- Religious Formation.

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This book explores new modes, spaces and relations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)'s global educational governance associated with the PISA for Schools test. Adopting a theoretically-rich policy sociology approach, with an emphasis on topological understandings of spatiality and power, the book examines the entire PISA for Schools policy cycle, from its initial development, to its administration and promotion in the U.S., and its local enactment by schools and teachers. It demonstrates how PISA for Schools helps to steer how schooling is locally understood and practised through separate and yet overlapping techniques: governing by (1) heterarchy, (2) respatialisation and (3) 'best practice'. The book reveals the specific effects of PISA for Schools as an exemplar of how global educational governance is increasingly enfolded within contemporary schooling, as well as discussing how we might practise a policy sociology in which the local is acknowledged as a relevant space of concern.

Assessment. --- Educational policy. --- Education and state. --- Educational sociology. --- Educational sociology . --- Education and sociology. --- Assessment, Testing and Evaluation. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- Sociology of Education. --- Education and sociology --- Social problems in education --- Society and education --- Sociology, Educational --- Sociology --- Education --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Aims and objectives --- Government policy --- Programme for International Student Assessment --- Influence. --- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. --- International Programme for Student Assessment --- OECD/PISA --- PISA --- Programa Internacional de Avaliação de Alunos --- Program for International Student Assessment --- Starptautiskā skolēnu novērtēšanas programma --- Programme international pour le suivi des acquis des élèves --- Programa Internacional de Evaluación de Estudiantes

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The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an important part of the OECD's Indicator Programme. It collects data and provides comparative indicators of education systems in OECD member and partner countries. PISA provides datasets of outstanding quality regarding samples, instruments and analyses. In addition to its important function for educational monitoring, the PISA datasets are the basis of a wide range of secondary analyses from a number of different scientific perspectives and disciplines. The aim of this book is to make some of the outstanding PISA related research results available for a wider audience. Specifically four research areas will be focused: (1) Content related research; (2) Methodological research; (3) Context related research; (4) Research on trends in PISA. Each part of the book is devoted to one of these areas and will start with an introduction from a leading expert in the field followed by chapters covering research conducted in this field.

Education. --- Educational evaluation -- Congresses. --- Educational tests and measurements. --- Learning -- Congresses. --- Educational tests and measurements --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Academic achievement --- Students --- Education and state --- Rating of --- Programme for International Student Assessment --- Pupils --- School life --- Student life and customs --- Academic underachievement --- Achievement, Academic --- Educational achievement --- Scholastic achievement --- Scholastic success --- School achievement --- Student achievement --- Underachievement, Academic --- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. --- International Programme for Student Assessment --- OECD/PISA --- PISA --- Programa Internacional de Avaliação de Alunos --- Program for International Student Assessment --- Starptautiskā skolēnu novērtēšanas programma --- Programme international pour le suivi des acquis des élèves --- Programa Internacional de Evaluación de Estudiantes --- International education. --- Comparative education. --- Mathematics --- Science education. --- Assessment. --- Educational psychology. --- Literacy. --- Educational Psychology. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Mathematics Education. --- Science Education. --- Assessment, Testing and Evaluation. --- Study and teaching. --- Psychology. --- Persons --- Performance --- Success --- Mathematics. --- Science --- Educational tests and measuremen. --- Science education --- Scientific education --- Math --- Illiteracy --- General education --- Psychology, Educational --- Psychology --- Child psychology --- Education—Psychology. --- International education . --- Mathematics—Study and teaching . --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- History