Education by the numbers and the making of society : the expertise of international assessments /: the expertise of international assessments. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited] by Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson, and Thomas S. Popkewitz.
• Editors: Lindblad, Sverker, 1946-
• Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Getting the Numbers Right: An Introduction; Section I Numbers: A History of a Style of Reasoning; 2. Politics by the Numbers; 3. On the Contest of Lists and Their Governing Capacities: How â#x80;#x98;Tax Havensâ#x80;#x99; Became â#x80;#x98;Secrecy Jurisdictionsâ#x80;#x99;; 4. Time, Drawing, Testing: The Making Up of the Developmental Child and the Measuring of the Nationâ#x80;#x99;s Development; 5. And the World Has Finally Been Made to Measure; Section II The Field of Making of Data: Problematics of Assessment 6. Producing the â#x80;#x98;Right Kind of Peopleâ#x80;#x99;: The OECD Education Indicators in the 1960s7. Standards: Normative, Interpretative, and Performative; 8. International Assessments and Its Expertise Fabricating Expert Knowledge for Policy; 9. The Implications of Understanding That PISA Is Simply Another Standardized Achievement Test; Section III Large-Scale Assessment as the Production of Numbers; 10. PISA as a Social Media Event: Powering the â#x80;#x98;Logics of Competitionâ#x80;#x99;; 11. Who Governs the Numbers?: The Framing of Educational Knowledge by TIMSS Research 12. OECD as a Site of Coproduction: The European Education Governance and the New Politics of â#x80;#x98;Policy Mobilizationâ#x80;#x99;Section IV The Dissolution of the Science/Society Distinction; 13. Statistics Reasoning, Governing Education and Making Differences as Kinds of People; 14. Anticipating the Future Society: The Cultural Inscription of Numbers and International Large-Scale Assessment; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 379.1/58; Educational indicators; Educational evaluation; Comparative education; Comparative education; Educational evaluation; Educational indicators; EDUCATION / Administration / General; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351586092; 1351586092; 1351586084; 9781351586085
• Related ISBNs: 9781138295827; 1138295825; 9781138295834; 1138295833; 9781315100432; 9781351586078; 9781351586085
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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