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What is Offered by International Comparative Studies

Author(s): Milica Andevski
Subject(s): Higher Education
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: international comparative studies; achievement; education system

Summary/Abstract: International, empirical comparative studies, which have been implemented in recent years, are better known under the abbreviations: PISA, TIMSS, IGLU, CIVED, „Reading Literacy”. These studies examine primarily results, performance (output), and the students’ achievements in the different national school systems. The paper discusses the possibilities and limits provided by these international comparative studies of achievement, their fields of work, methodical starting points that accompany them, the problems, as well as the benefits provided by these studies, by which we understand the reflection in public, school and teaching practice, and implications for further research in the field of education, and theories of education. The results of these studies should primarily put ministers, education planners, and politicians in a position to compare the effects of their education system with others, in order to better assess the strengths and weaknesses of the national education system, and then, offer more appropriate school-organizational and educational policy decisions.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 23-39
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Serbian