Pisa, global reference societies, and policy borrowing

The promises and pitfalls of ‘academic resilience’

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21728005
AutoresLouis Volante (0000-0002-8723-6774, Brock University, autor correspondente), David A Klinger (0000-0002-8401-3719, University of Waikato), Don A Klinger (University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand)
Ano2023
Volume21
Fascículo7
Páginas755-764
Data de publicação2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolicy Futures in Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1478-2103 • E-ISSN: 1478-2103
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14782103211069002
OpenAlexW4225093793
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências 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