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Pisa Under Examination

Changing Knowledge, Changing Tests, and Changing Schools

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Pisa Under Examination

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PISA or the Programme for International Student Assessment of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) is one of the most famous educational events of the last decades. Thousands of students from sixty-two different countries (the OECD countries plus country partners which signed a contract with this institution) have been recently involved in its tests for the 2009 PISA (the fourth report of this kind was presented in December 2010).

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Miguel A. Pereyra Hans-Georg Kotthoff Robert Cowen

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Pereyra, M.A., Kotthoff, HG., Cowen, R. (2011). Pisa Under Examination. In: Pereyra, M.A., Kotthoff, HG., Cowen, R. (eds) Pisa Under Examination. Comparative Education Society in Europe Association ďÉducation Comparée en Europe Gesellschaft für Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft in Europa, vol 11. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-740-0_1

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