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I attended, when I was a student in the Comparative Department of the Institute of Education in London, a seminar given by C. Arnold Anderson. He argued that we needed ‘international testing’ (of the IEA kind) on the grounds that until we knew the outcomes of educational systems we could not have ‘a comparative education’. I thought the argument was unusual.
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Cowen, R. (2011). Coda. 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_17
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