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This chapter highlights Finnish students’ outstanding success in PISA studies during the last decade. This success has been a great joy to educational practitioners and decision makers in Finland. It has been amazing how the Finnish education system, with only average monetary investments, a very small amount of homework and lesson hours and extremely light education evaluation (no inspection system) can reach such results high quality and equality in international comparisons.
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Reinikainen, P. (2012). Amazing Pisa Results in Finnish Comprehensive Schools. In: Niemi, H., Toom, A., Kallioniemi, A. (eds) Miracle of Education. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-811-7_1
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