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In our global era, international standardized comparative achievement assessments [e.g., Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD’s) TIMMS assessment and Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)] can dominate much of the cooperative potential across international educational spaces (Spring in Review of Educational Research, 78(2), 330–363, 2008). Yet, such standardized comparisons fall short of achieving the professional collaborations needed in the field of teacher education for our twenty-first-century global society. More globally situated and culturally embedded conceptions of achievement and assessment are needed to balance single-ruler approaches.
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The gao kao (高考), literally translated as the “big test,” is the National Higher Education Entrance Examination required for entry into nearly all of China’s higher education institutions at the undergraduate level.
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A chengyu (成语) is a traditional Chinese idiomatic expression, typically expressed in four characters. Many chengyu are traced to ancient classical Chinese texts and still are used in modern dialogue.
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Ren (仁) is a Confucian term most often translated as benevolence, or benevolent human becoming.
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Liu, L.B. (2015). Conceptualizing Achievement in an Era of Globalization. In: Teacher Educator International Professional Development as Ren. New Frontiers of Educational Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46971-2_1
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