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OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is part of the new toolkit for the management of school improvement. That management focuses on measuring expectations related to school performance and benchmarks rather than on school inputs, such as increasing teacher credentials and the allocation of resources (Hopmann, 2008). The international measurements of what students learn in schools are related to earlier OECD programs.
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Popkewitz, T.S. (2011). Pisa. 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_3
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