Immigrant and Refugee Students Across “Receiving” Nations: To What Extent Can Educators Rely on PISA for Answers?

Massive population shift is a current global reality – especially given some of the latest development on European shores; some are calling it a humanitarian crisis. Although the United States (US) receives a large number of immigrants (documented and not) and about 70,000 refugees each year, it is certainly not the only nation to do so. Industrialized nations that receive migrants through immigration policies are typically referred to as “receiving” nations. The article addresses two main questions: (1) how well immigrant students across 17 receiving industrialized nations are doing according to the Programme for International Student Assessment (otherwise known as PISA), and (2) how are educators, immigrant and refugee parents and students experiencing integration in the school context. The education of immigrant and refugee students is a complex global issue that requires better understanding, collaborative attention, and long-term investment of several stakeholders.     

Fifteen years of research on PISA effects on education governance: A critical review

This article provides a literature review on the effects of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) on education governance and policy process across participating countries. This review seemed necessary because there has been a growing body of literature on this topic since 2003, especially since 2010, because this literature is not always well‐known and because the discourse on the so‐called ‘PISA shock’ remains important, even if it is more of a metaphor than a concept and may be politically partial. The article exploits a dataset of 87 references which show that PISA introduced major changes in the governance of education worldwide. Driven by soft power strategies and new policy transfers, this governance is based on data and measurement tools which redefine the scales of education policies. It also shows that PISA has a strong influence on a variety of national reforms, as illustrated in many case studies. However, this influence strongly depends on domestic policy contexts that scholars intended to capture through different theoretical frameworks. Nonetheless, few propose overarching theorisations of the political meaning of PISA effects on education governance and policy processes. The article concludes by stressing three main challenges for the subsequent studies on these PISA effects: better conceptualising these effects, preserving an epistemology of uncertainty in order to avoid taken for granted views and normalising the research on PISA effects not to perpetually and artificially rediscover its so‐called novelty.     

关于《思想道德修养与法律基础》(2015年修订版)教材的深度解读及理性思考

教材《思想道德修养与法律基础》(2015年修订版)相比以往版本,在内容上再次发生大的变化,主要体现在章节结构、主要内容、思想观点、言语表述及逻辑主线等诸多方面。正是这些内容上的变化使得新版教材逻辑主线清晰,章节分配合理,内容贴近实际,具有较强的时代感和鲜活感。要想使新版教材发挥应有作用,日臻完善,还迫切需要教育者、编写者、大学生注意以下几点:首先,教育者要注意专题教学方法的运用;其次,教材编写者要注意个别词语的再斟酌;最后,当代大学生要注意教材学习思考和阅读文献部分。     

2015年中国高等教育热点回眸

回眸中国高等教育2015 年的热点话题,有利于我们客观记录鲜活的高等教育历史,及时发现、反思、总结高等教育经验教训,积淀高等教育持续发展与改革的动力。为此,本文对浙江师范大学教育评论研究所网站“每日教育评论”栏目上传的热点话题,通过影响范围以及“百度”搜索量进行筛选,每月确定一个话题。并参照社会各界的议论,以教育评论的视角进行理性的归纳与反思。     

The impact of the Programme for International Student Assessment on academic journals

The aim of this study is to assess the impact of PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) on international scientific journals. A bibliometric analysis was conducted of publications included in three main scientific publication databases: Eric, EBSCOhost and the ISI Web of Knowledge, from 2002 to 2010. The paper focused on four main questions: who carried out these studies, in which academic journals have the articles been published, what has been the evolution of these publications and what were the main article topics? The study concludes that PISA has had a considerable impact on the scientific research, reflected primarily by university-based authors from the areas of education and social sciences analysing student performance. The evolution since 2007 seems to indicate that more articles will be published in coming years through the initiative of researchers (rather than the editorial boards), even from other scientific areas, thus increasing the number of topics of analysis.     

The influence of the family,the school,and the group on the environmental attitudes of European students

The attitudes of young people arise from an intense interaction with their social groups of reference, and in this work we examine the extent to which this background conditions the individual environmental attitudes of the young. Using data provided by the PISA 2006 survey for the European Union, we test for the influence of the family, the characteristics of the school, and the social interactions or school peer group on attitudes toward the environment. The existence of social interactions, as well as the important role of family characteristics and school activities, are confirmed. The results allow us to emphasize the importance of the social context of the adolescent, and the need to take this into account as a channel that amplifies the influence of specific environmental education strategies.     

国际学生阅读能力评价旨趣与过程——PISA 2006阅读能力评价框架解读

阅读、数学、科学是OECD国际学生评估项目PISA所关注的三个主要方面,PISA2006中对阅读能力的定义、文本格式、研究工具、评分重点等方面都做了新的阐述.     

PISA 2015科学素养内涵变化、价值取向及启示

PISA科学评价框架主要从"核心概念界定"及"评估框架"两个角度阐述"科学素养"的具体内涵,故本文将从上述两个角度探求PISA 2015科学素养内涵的若干新变化并阐述其价值取向.其内涵的变化主要表现在对能力、知识、态度的重新界定上:能力方面,将科学素养直接定义为能力,认为能力是科学实践与反思的统一;知识方面,将"关于科学的知识"重新划分为两类:程序性知识及认知性知识;态度方面,重视对科学探究方法的评价.其价值取向是:背景,融入真实生活的实际应用需要;能力,基于科学本质的实践与反思需要;知识,直面未来生活挑战的基础性需要;态度,满足社会及个人可持续发展的需要.最后,分析了基于PISA 2015科学素养价值取向的教学启示.