PISA-b on Proxima Centauri: A speculative story about the costs and benefits of ILSAs by Sam Sellar and Camilla Addey
In this NORRAG Highlights contributed by Sam Sellar (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Camilla Addey (Teachers College, Columbia University), the authors imagine life... Read More
Accountability to the rescue? by William C. Smith
This NORRAG Highlights is contributed by William C. Smith, Teaching Fellow in comparative education and international development at the University of Edinburgh,... Read More
What Is There Not to Like About a Global Learning Metric? by William C. Smith & Aaron Benavot
This NORRAG Highlights published by William C. Smith, Teaching Fellow in Comparative Education and International Development at the University of Edinburgh, and... Read More
Global movement for assessments of early childhood development and what’s missing in SDG4.2 by Kenji Kitamura
This NORRAG Highlights is published by Kenji Kitamura, master student in International Educational Development program at Teachers College, Columbia University. In this... Read More
Mind the Learning Gap: A Methodological Look into World Bank’s New Human Capital Index by Ji Liu
This NORRAG Highlights is written by Ji Liu, NORRAG Research Associate, PhD Candidate and Doctoral Fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University on... Read More
Defining Educational Quality(ies): Can the Right to Quality Education be Fulfilled through Market Incentives? By Felipe Gajardo and Nicolás Grau
This post is published as part of the NORRAG Debates stream on the Right to Education. The authors take a quantitative approach to... Read More
Critical Reflections on the 2018 World Development Report: If Learning is so Important then Why Can’t the World Bank Learn? by Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye
This post was prepared in response to the recent publication of the 2018 World Development Report, LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise, by... Read More
The Cost of Ignorance Revisited: Imitating the OECD or Learning to Be Critical? By Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye
By Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye, Kyoto University, Japan. In February 2016, Director of UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Silvia Montoya wrote... Read More
PISA for Development: Expanding the Global Education Community Esperanto or Developing a Dialect? By Camilla Addey
By Camilla Addey, Humboldt University in Berlin[1] In the 1990s, the International Large-Scale Assessment (ILSA) phenomenon suddenly exploded and over the following... Read More
Can the Measurement of Learning Outcomes Lead to Quality Education for All? By Pablo Zoido, Michael Ward, Kelly Makowiecki, Lauren Miller, and Catalina Covacevich
By Pablo Zoido (former OECD), Michael Ward, Kelly Makowiecki, Lauren Miller, Catalina Covacevich (OECD) This is one of the complex questions that... Read More
