The Foundation Problems for Educational Research Arising from the Pisa Studies
The previous chapter draws attention to the relationships between education and human development and considers Amartya Sen’s ‘Capability Approach’ and the ideas that are advanced in his book Development as Freedom. The first ten chapters in this present
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What Can PISA 2012 Data Tell Us? Performance and Challenges in Five Participating Southeast Asian Countries
Edited by Lei Mee Thien SEAMEO RECSAM, Malaysia Nordin Abd Razak Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia John P. Keeves Flinders University, Australia and I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan The University of Adelaide, Australia
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Table of Contents
Prefacevii Acknowledgmentsxi Prologuexiii John P. Keeves 1. PISA: Malaysia’s Wake up Call for a More Balanced Approach to Educational Delivery and Attainment Azian T. S. Abdullah, Muhammad Zaini Mohd Zain, Sheela G. Nair, Rusliza Abdullah and Ihsan Ismail 2. A Multilevel Analysis of Singaporean Students’ Mathematics performance in PISA 2012 Qian Chen 3. Education Assessment System and PISA 2012 in Vietnam Le Thi My Ha 4. Students’ Performance in PISA and the Adequacy of Teaching and Learning Precharn Dechsri 5. Diagnosing Weaknesses of Indonesian Students’ Learning Harry Firman 6. Factors Associated with Malaysian Mathematics Performance in PISA 2012 Lei Mee Thien and I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan
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7. Problem-Solving Skills among Malaysian Students: What We Learned from PISA Sharifah Norul Akmar Syed Zamri
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8. The Variation in Teaching and Learning Practices and Their Contribution to Mathematics Performance in PISA 2012 Nordin Abd Razak and Azadeh Shafaei
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9. Assessing the Quality and Equity of Student Performance in Five Southeast Asian Countries I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan
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10. Understanding PISA and Its Impact on Policy Initiative: A Review of the Evidence Petra Lietz, Mollie Tobin and Dita Nugroho
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11. What Comes Next – Insights for Reform Initiatives and Future Research Esther Sui Chu Ho
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12. The Foundation Problems for Educational Research Arising from the PISA Studies: Important Issues for Research into PISA Studies John P. Keeves and I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan
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Epilogue: The Challenges Confronting All People Living on the Planet Earth John P. Keeves and I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan
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About the Contributors
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preface
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that was launched in 2000 and conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Deve
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