How to Become an Influential Actor — The ‘Comparative Turn’ in OECD Education Policy

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When Do Numbers Count? The Differential Impact of the PISA Rating and Ranking on Education Policy in Germany and the US (2013, background): “Although R&R are popular in the field of (higher) education, it was mainly PISA that triggered works on how and by what means these comparative depictions create attention and competition amongst participating members, particularly with regard to German underachievement in the OECD study.(10) In the”
The OECD PISA Study as a Soft Power in Education? Lessons from Switzerland and the US. (2011, background): “…international organisations in education today is the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (Rinne, Hokka & Kallo, 2004; Martens, 2007), particularly through its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) which measures the performance of students who have…”
The rise of international large-scale assessments and rationales for participation (2017, background): “Empirical research carried out by Martens (2007) and Pizmony-Levy (2013) has illustrated how the main organisations responsible for developing and administering ILSAs – the OECD and the IEA – experienced a shift in their assessment culture in the early-1990s, before the ILSA phenomenon fully…”