Axel Rivas
Biographic Data
| ID | 6329759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Axel Rivas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Axel |
| FAMILY NAME | Rivas |
| SIGNATURE | RIVAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Andrés |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4714-3511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring the pedagogical field
Standardized Educational Assessments
In the last 25 years, Latin America became a region overwhelmed with standardized educational assessments. Standardized assessments point to a major change in the governance of education systems, not only because they enter as policy inputs for decision-making, but also because they rise to the status of high-stakes standardized assessments where rankings on outcomes are published so that parents can make informed decisions regarding school choic…
Una teoría para la mejora sistémica de la educación en América Latina
El estudio de la mejora de los sistemas educativos tiene un escaso desarrollo en la tradición de la investigación en América Latina. La aparición de las evaluaciones estandarizadas, que permiten la comparación en el tiempo de los logros, ha generado interpretaciones sesgadas o simplistas sobre las causas de los resultados de aprendizajes. La propuesta de una teoría de la mejora sistémica parte de estas advertencias y busca generar un marco que es…
The long road to systemic improvement in education
Ideas about educational improvement are contextual and contested. This study proposes a critical and pragmatic framework to analyse systemic improvement, taking into account the paradoxes and limitations of quantitative sources. The study compared 83 subnational educational systems of three federal countries in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Based on a mixed methodology, we analysed the evolution of multiple educational indicators …
Low stakes, high risks
Since 2000, the PISA test implemented by OECD has become the prime benchmark for international comparisons in education. The 2015 PISA edition introduced methodological changes that altered the nature of its results. PISA made no longer valid non-reached items of the final part of the test, assuming that those unanswered questions were more a problem of motivation than skills. Latin American countries were the only ones that had a large proportio…
Race to the classroom
During the first years of the new century, Latin America went through significant political changes in a period of economic growth. In education, we identify a ‘regulatory governance turn’ characterised by the emergence of four policy instruments: 1-New performance-based teaching career regulations with teachers' evaluations, 2-Curricular standards and increasing regulation via textbook provision, 3-Test-based accountability based on high-stakes …
Race to the classroom
During the first years of the new century, Latin America went through significant political changes in a period of economic growth. In education, we identify a ‘regulatory governance turn’ characterised by the emergence of four policy instruments: 1-New performance-based teaching career regulations with teachers' evaluations, 2-Curricular standards and increasing regulation via textbook provision, 3-Test-based accountability based on high-stakes …
Race to the classroom
During the first years of the new century, Latin America went through significant political changes in a period of economic growth. In education, we identify a ‘regulatory governance turn’ characterised by the emergence of four policy instruments: 1-New performance-based teaching career regulations with teachers' evaluations, 2-Curricular standards and increasing regulation via textbook provision, 3-Test-based accountability based on high-stakes …
Low stakes, high risks
Since 2000, the PISA test implemented by OECD has become the prime benchmark for international comparisons in education. The 2015 PISA edition introduced methodological changes that altered the nature of its results. PISA made no longer valid non-reached items of the final part of the test, assuming that those unanswered questions were more a problem of motivation than skills. Latin American countries were the only ones that had a large proportio…
The long road to systemic improvement in education
Ideas about educational improvement are contextual and contested. This study proposes a critical and pragmatic framework to analyse systemic improvement, taking into account the paradoxes and limitations of quantitative sources. The study compared 83 subnational educational systems of three federal countries in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Based on a mixed methodology, we analysed the evolution of multiple educational indicators …
Standardized Educational Assessments
In the last 25 years, Latin America became a region overwhelmed with standardized educational assessments. Standardized assessments point to a major change in the governance of education systems, not only because they enter as policy inputs for decision-making, but also because they rise to the status of high-stakes standardized assessments where rankings on outcomes are published so that parents can make informed decisions regarding school choic…
Una teoría para la mejora sistémica de la educación en América Latina
El estudio de la mejora de los sistemas educativos tiene un escaso desarrollo en la tradición de la investigación en América Latina. La aparición de las evaluaciones estandarizadas, que permiten la comparación en el tiempo de los logros, ha generado interpretaciones sesgadas o simplistas sobre las causas de los resultados de aprendizajes. La propuesta de una teoría de la mejora sistémica parte de estas advertencias y busca generar un marco que es…
Exploring the pedagogical field
Latin Americans (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Educational Assessment and Improvement (3 works) · Management (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Comparative education (2 works) · Curriculum (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)