International Large-Scale Assessments in Education: Insider Research Perspectives
Cover -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One Theory and method -- 1 Researching inside the international testing machine: PISA parties, midnight emails and red shoes -- 2 Assessment imaginaries: methodological challenges of future assessment machines -- 3 The infrastructures of objectivity in standardized testing Nelli Piattoeva and Antti Saari -- 4 Detecting student performance in large-scale assessments -- Part Two Observing data production -- 5 Starting strong: on the genesis of the new OECD survey on early childhood education and care -- 6 The situation(s) of text in PISA reading literacy -- 7 Self-reported effort and motivation in the PISA test -- 8 Student preparation for large-scale assessments: a comparative analysis -- 9 Investigating testing situations -- Part Three Reception and public opinion -- 10 Managing public reception of assessment results -- 11 The public and international assessments -- 12 Post script: has critique begun to gather steam again? Beyond 'critical barbarism' in studying ILSAs -- Index