Pisa, global reference societies, and policy borrowing

The promises and pitfalls of ‘academic resilience’

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21728005
AutoresLouis Volante (0000-0002-8723-6774, Brock University, autor de correspondencia), David A Klinger (0000-0002-8401-3719, University of Waikato), Don A Klinger (University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand)
Año2023
Volumen21
Número7
Páginas755-764
Fecha de publicación2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolicy Futures in Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1478-2103 • E-ISSN: 1478-2103
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14782103211069002
OpenAlexW4225093793
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas26

The Programme in International Student Assessment (PISA) has become the prominent method of international comparison of the achievement of 15-year-old children in reading, mathematics, and science. Recently, the OECD, which administers PISA, has devoted a great deal of energy promoting the notion of “academic resilience”—which refers to the capacity of individuals to prosper despite encountering adverse circumstances. Countries are compared and contrasted in relation to the relative share of disadvantaged students that are able to achieve at higher achievement levels on PISA, with associations drawn from school-level factors and resulting implications drawn for policy reform. This paper offers a number of cautions with the growing influence of cross-national comparisons of academic resilience. Our discussion underscores how the OECD’s notion of “academic resilience,” which has come to dominate transnational policy debates, is quite narrow and limited by the measures it uses to assess student competencies

Academic achievement · Development economics · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · International comparisons · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Psychological resilience · Sociology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology