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Global evidence in local debates: the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in Swiss direct-democratic debates on school policy
Policy and Politics. 2016. Vol. 44. No. 4. P. 547–561.
Schlaufer C.
This article analyses the use of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
and other evidence in educational policy discourse in the context of direct-democratic votes in
Switzerland. The results of a quantitative content analysis show that PISA is used by all actors to
support a wide range of policy measures and ideological positions. Other evidence, however, is
only used to support single specific policy positions. These findings demonstrate the ubiquity of
PISA. The article discusses these results in view of the question of whether the incorporation of
evidence into policy debates contributes to informed discourse.
Iskakova B., Kosaretsky S., Zair-Bek S. I. et al., Journal of Economic Sociology 2026 Vol. 27 No. 3 P. 99–128
The issue of urban-rural inequality is recognised as one of the most pressing and unresolved challenges, particularly in post-Soviet countries. This article examines territorial inequality in educational outcomes across seven post-Soviet countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Moldova, Georgia, and Kazakhstan. The study analyses how students’ PISA test scores vary by urban–rural location and investigates whether ...
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Kolachev N., Kovaleva G., Educational Research and Evaluation 2026 P. 1–24
This study investigates the psychometric structure and school-level associations between cognitive abilities of teachers and students. Using a cross-sectional quantitative design, we administered a PISA-based cognitive assessment tool measuring reading, mathematics, science literacy, and global competence to 5,391 eighth-grade students and 2,385 teachers from 84 schools in a Russian region. Bifactor modeling, measurement invariance testing, ...
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Kukushko M. V., Правоприменение 2026 Т. 10 № 1 С. 104–113
Digital transformation of public authority objectively expands the tools for engaging citizens in the preparation and adoption of legally significant decisions. However, the term "crowdsourcing," which originated in the private law sphere, does not provide sufficient legal certainty in public administration. The purpose of the article is to substantiate and introduce into scientific discourse the ...
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Gordeeva T. O., Сычев О. А., Сибирский психологический журнал 2023 № 88 С. 85–104
The universal and cross-cultural aspects of the obtained results are discussed,
as well as study limitations.
Key words: psychological well-being; life satisfaction; parental support; teacher support; bullying; predictors of well-being; Russian teenagers; PISA ...
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Kolachev N., Kovaleva G., Intelligence 2023 Vol. 98 Article 101756
This study is aimed at investigating the contribution of the general intelligence factor if six PISA domains (reading, mathematical, scientific, financial literacies, global competence, and creative thinking) are combined in one measurement instrument. For achieving our goal, items based on the PISA frameworks are developed, students in grades 5–8 from three different Russian regions are ...
Added: April 12, 2023
Adamovich K., Образовательная политика 2022 Т. 3 № 91 С. 49–61
The results of the international study PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) have long been in the focus of the educational policy of many countries and become the basis for recommendations to educational organizations. However, often these recommendations do not consider the within-country context and regional differences in the landscape of educational inequality.
This study is ...
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Popov D., Strelnikova A., Григорьева Е. А., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2022 Т. 31 № 2 С. 26–50
There is a widespread belief that technically re-equipping high schools will result in a better quality of education and in the improvement of educational outcomes. In this article, using comparative international data from PISA, we show that the digital transformation of schools in European countries and in Russia does not correlate with improved student competencies ...
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Polivanova K. N., Культурно-историческая психология 2020 Т. 16 № 4 С. 26–34
The article traces the logical sequence of the emergence of the constructs “quality of life” and “wellbeing” in the public discourse. It is shown that gradually since the end of the 60s of the XX century, the socio-economic and public sphere is turning to invest in education and health, indicators of well-being are being developed. ...
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Koshel A., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 11: Право 2021 № 3 С. 62–86
Foreign legal and political science notes the positive effect from the interpenetration of the institutions of direct and representative democracy, especially by way of modern digital technologies. The key forms of such interpenetration have been and remain the popular (civil) legislative initiative and public hearings (public discussion of bills). The experience of crowdsourcing in carrying ...
Added: December 6, 2021
Kolachev N., Рутковская Е. Л., Kovaleva G. et al., Вопросы образования 2021 № 4 С. 166–186
Based on the OECD PISA financial literacy data released in 2020, Russian students’ strengths and deficits are analyzed to examine the relationship between financial literacy and a variety of factors. Regression analysis shows that both individual and school-related characteristics are significant predictors of students’ performance in financial literacy. In particular, when controlling for socioeconomic status ...
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Рутковская Е. Л., Половникова А. В., Kolachev N., Отечественная и зарубежная педагогика 2021 Т. 2 № 5(79) С. 78–97
The article introduces readers to a feature of the 2018 Financial Literacy study, which included two samples and two groups of results: results for the Russian Federation in general and results for a sample of fifteen-year-old students from regions participating in the Ministry of Finance Project "Promoting Financial Literacy and the Development of Financial Education ...
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Kovaleva G., Рутковская Е. Л., Kolachev N. et al., Отечественная и зарубежная педагогика 2021 Т. 2 № 5(79) С. 41–59
The article presents the main results of Russian students in comparison with the results of students from other countries who participated in the PISA-financial Literacy study. Attention is focused on the dynamics of the results of Russian students in terms of financial literacy levels with a meaningful description of the levels according to the concept ...
Added: November 30, 2021
Коваль Т. В., Дюкова С. Е., Kolachev N., Отечественная и зарубежная педагогика 2021 Т. 2 № 5(79) С. 31–40
The article presents a continuation of the gender aspects’ analysis of the results obtained by the international study of the quality of education PISA 2018 in the field of functional literacy “global competences”, characterizes the attitudes of the international study in analyzing the results from a gender perspective. Focusing on the results of Russian boys ...
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Zakharov A., Carnoy M., International Journal of Educational Development 2021 Vol. 84 P. 1–13
A central concern surrounding test-based accountability is that teachers may narrow teaching practices to improve test performance on a curriculum-based specific knowledge test rather than student learning more broadly. Two of the most common teaching practices that “teach to the test” are providing test-specific classwork and increasing the frequency with which students take practice tests. ...
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Uldanov A., Gabriichuk T., Karateev D. et al., European Policy Analysis 2021 Vol. 7 No. 2 P. 433–450
This article draws on the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to analyze Moscow’s public transport debate. Despite a proliferation of the NPF applications in recent years, applications to authoritarian institutional settings remain rare. We seek to fill this gap by examining the question of what policy narratives and narrative strategies are used by the actors, to ...
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Gavrilova V., Право и управление. XXI век 2018 № 2 С. 79–87
The relevance of the study is caused by the growing interest in the practices of involving citizens in the budget process in Russia and abroad. In 2017 the project “Development of initiative budgeting in the Russian Federation” was launched. It is being implemented by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and the World ...
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Gasinets M., Педагогика 2020 Т. 84 № 5 С. 111–117
The article briefly discusses the effects on German educational policy from participating in
and receiving unexpectedly low results in international PISA testing. Th e effects are characterized on
two sides. On the one hand, the educational reforms undertaken are described. On the other hand, the
changes in the ideology of education under the influence of PISA are considered. ...
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Fursov A., Вестник Воронежского государственного университета. Серия: Право 2019 № 4 С. 79–92
This article proves the existence of citizens’ local self-government rights and their constitutional signifi cance. Local self-government rights are examined as a complex body of laws requiring a logical reorganization. A novel concept for systematizing these laws is suggested, and the current Russian laws governing them are critiqued. Concrete suggestions are made for improving domestic ...
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Исаев Д. А., Чернышова А. А., Школа будущего 2017 № 3 С. 230–236
This article is about scientific literacy, its structure, consistent with the requirements of the educational standard, and the possibility of its formation in physics lessons. In tasks, aimed at contributing to developing students' scientific literacy, we offer to use not only the relationship of physics and natural Sciences, but the relationship of physics and all ...
Added: February 1, 2020
Adamovich K., Kapuza A., Zakharov A. et al., М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2019.
This publication presents Russia results in PISA 2018. It also shows the dynamics of PISA scores in the 2000-s. The changes in different types of reading skills are presented as well as the proportion of functionally illiterate students.
Besides the scores, the data that describes schools climate, including attitude to school, bullying, discipline in class, are analysed. Some issues ...
Added: January 30, 2020
Zelenova D., , in: The Omnipresent Past. Historical Anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora.: M.: -, 2019. Ch. 1 P. 66–81.
In the following chapter, the author presents some of the findings of the research project conducted in South Africa from 2011–2013, which was aimed at rediscovering people’s memories of township struggles of the 1980s. The research analyzed life stories and memories of direct involvement in community structures and self-rule in townships. In this text, the author ...
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Malik V., Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 2019 Vol. 10 No. 1 P. 125–144
This study profile presents the Russian panel study Trajectories in Education and Careers (TrEC). This longitudinal project has been conducted in Russia since 2009 and comprises one national panel and several regional panels of school and university students. The national panel is a longitudinal follow-up with the participants of the Trends in International Mathematics and ...
Added: February 12, 2019
Khavenson T., Вопросы образования 2019 № 3 С. 77–100
This article investigates into the reform of national school curriculum in Russian-language schools in Latvia and Estonia. We assess how well the reform-related regulations have been integrated into everyday schooling practices and reflected in educational outcomes in order to measure the success of the education reform in terms of adopting the new learning standard and ...
Added: December 4, 2018