3,716
Views
26
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

PISA and education reform in Shanghai

ORCID Icon
Pages 391-406 | Received 03 Aug 2016, Accepted 17 Dec 2016, Published online: 06 Feb 2017

References

  • Afonso, N., & Costa, E. (2009,April). Use and circulation of OECD’s ‘Programme for International Student Assessment’ (PISA) in Portugal. Project KNOWandPOL, WP 12. Retrieved from http://knowandpol.eu/IMG/pdf/o31.pisa.portugal.pdf
  • Auld, E., & Morris, P. (2014). Comparative education, the ‘new paradigm’ and policy borrowing: Constructing knowledge for education reform. Comparative Education, 50(2), 129–155. doi:10.1080/03050068.2013.826497
  • Baird, J.-A., Johnson, S., Hopfenbeck, T. N., Isaacs, T., Sprague, T., Stobart, G., & Yu, G. (2016). On the supranational spell of PISA in policy. Educational Research, 58(2), 121–138. doi:10.1080/00131881.2016.1165410
  • Berg, B. L. (2009). Qualitative research methods for the social sciences (7th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
  • Cai, J., & Tang, Q. (2015, Dec 18). Youda xiangqiang – tigao zhiliang pian [From large to strong – an essay on improving quality]. Zhongguo Jiaoyu Bao. Retrieved from http://www.moe.edu.cn/jyb_xwfb/moe_2082/zl_2015n/2015_zl64/201512/t20151218_225320.html
  • Cao, J., & Yan, W. (2014, Feb). PISA, huange shijiao kan jichu jiaoyu [PISA, looking at basic education from a different angle]. Guangming Ribao, 7, 6.
  • Carvalho, L. M. (2012). The fabrications and travels of a knowledge-policy instrument. European Educational Research Journal, 11(2), 172–188. doi:10.2304/eerj.2012.11.2.172
  • Chai, W. (2015a, Apr). Woguo jianli yiwu zhiliang jiance zhidu, jinnian qi kaizhan jiance gongzuo – zhongguo tese ‘PISA’ jiekai miansha [China to establish a quality monitoring system for basic education, monitoring work to start this year – unveiling ‘PISA’ with Chinese characteristics]. Zhongguo Jiaoyu Bao, 16, 1.
  • Chai, W. (2015b, Apr). Zhongguo tese ‘PISA’ jiekai miansha [unveiling ‘PISA’ with Chinese characteristics]. Zhongguo Jiaoyu Bao, 16, 1.
  • Cheng, F. (2014, May). Gaobie gonglihhua de jiaoyu [saying goodbye to a utilitarian view of education]. Xuexi Shibao, 5, 9.
  • Cheng, Z. (2011). Jiaoyu gongping lunshu yu Zhongguo jiaoyu zhengce zhi yanjiu – yi Hunan jiaoyu qiangshen zhengce weili [Research on discourse in educational fairness and educational policy in China – Using the example of educational strengthening of the provinces in Hunan]. (Unpublished master’s thesis). National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University.
  • Crossley, M. (2014). Global league tables, big data and the international transfer of educational research modalities. Comparative Education, 50(1), 15–26. doi:10.1080/03050068.2013.871438
  • Dong, C. (2013, Dec). Shanghai PISA xiangmu fuzeren: PISA rang women zixin ye rang women zixing [official in charge of Shanghai PISA: PISA gives us both self-confidence and self-examination]. Dongfangwang. Retrieved from http://sh.eastday.com/m/20131204/u1a7809993.html
  • Dronkers, J. (2015). Are the PISA data for Shanghai flawed? The Huffington Post, Feb 10. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jaap-dronkers/are-the-pisa-data-for-sha_b_8234836.html
  • Fan, L. (2014, Mar). Pingjia zhihuibang ‘gaige’: Fenshu cong weiyi biancheng shifen zhiyi [reform in the appraisal baton: Test scores to change from the only one to one-tenth]. Wenhui Bao, 21, 11.
  • Grek, S. (2009). Governing by numbers: The PISA ‘effect’ in Europe. Journal of Education Policy, 24(1), 23–37. doi:10.1080/02680930802412669
  • Grek, S. (2012). What PISA knows and can do: Studying the role of national actors in the making of PISA. European Educational Research Journal, 11(2), 243–254. doi:10.2304/eerj.2012.11.2.243
  • Grek, S., Lawn, M., & Ozga, J. (2009, April). Study on the use and circulation of PISA in Scotland. Project KNOWandPOL, WP 12. Retrieved from http://knowandpol.eu/IMG/pdf/o31.pisa.scotland.pdf
  • Gür, B. S., Çelik, Z., & Özoglu, M. (2012). Policy options for Turkey: A critique of the interpretation and utilisation of PISA results in Turkey. Journal of Education Policy, 27(1), 1–21. doi:10.1080/02680939.2011.595509
  • He, R. (2009). Zhongxiao xuesheng jianfu diaocha – Xuesheng jianfu chengxiao ruhe? [Survey on burden for secondary and primary students – How effective is reducing the burden for students? Yangzhou Ribao, Feb 6, p. B1.
  • Holzinger, K., & Knill, C. (2005). Causes and conditions of cross-national policy convergence. Journal of European Public Policy, 12(5), 775–796. doi:10.1080/13501760500161357
  • Hu, X. (2012). Ba xuexiao daidao hefang [where are the schools heading towards]. Shanghai Education, 4A, 66–67.
  • Hu, X. (2013). ‘Xinyouzhi xuexiao’ xin zai nali [what is new about ‘new high quality schools’?]. Shanghai Jiaoyu Keyan, 1, 1.
  • Hu, X. (2015). ‘Xinyouzhi xuexiao’ zhuiqiu shenme [what do ‘new high quality schools’ seek?]. Shanghai Jiaoyu Keyan, 3, 5–6.
  • Jackson, A. (2013). Shanghai responds to school ranking cheating allegations. Education Week. Retrieved from http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2013/12/shanghai_responds_to_school_ranking_cheating_allegations.html?qs=PISA
  • Jerrim, J. (2015). Why do East Asian children perform so well in PISA? An investigation of Western-born children of East Asian descent. Oxford Review of Education, 41(3), 310–333. doi:10.1080/03054985.2015.1028525
  • Jiefang Ribao (2013, Dec 5). PISA Shanghai xiangmu fuzeren: Xuexi shijian yu chengji chengzheng bili [Official in charge of PISA item: Learning time is proportionate to performance. Retrieved from http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_519169510101j3iz.html
  • Jin, X. (2012, June). ‘Zexiao jiazhang’ huigui jiamenkou xuexiao [‘school choice parents’ have returned to the schools in the neighbourhood]. Guangming Ribao, 5, 6.
  • Jin, X. (2015, Apr). Jiaoyu zhiliang jiance: Kaoshi pingjia zhidu gaige de tupokou [monitoring of educational quality: Breakthrough in reform for exam appraisal system]. Guangming Ribao, 16, 10.
  • Kamens, D. H. (2013). Globalisation and the emergence of an audit culture: PISA and the search for ‘best practices’ and magic bullets. In H. D. Meyer & A. Benavot (Eds.), PISA, power and policy: The emergence of global educational governance (pp. 117–140). Oxford: Symposium Books.
  • Ke, W. (2013, Dec). Liangge ‘diyi’ de xiyuyou [the joy and sorrows of the two ‘number one’]. Shanghai Kejibao, 6, 1.
  • Loveless, T. (2014). Lessons from the PISA- Shanghai controvery. Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/research/lessons-from-the-pisa-shanghai-controversy/
  • Meyer, H.-D. (2014). Questioning OECD’s growing role in public education. Global Policy, May 5. Retrieved from http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/05/05/2014/questioning-oecd%E2%80%99s-growing-role-public-education
  • Meyer, H.-D., & Benavot, A. (2013). Introduction. In H. D. Meyer & A. Benavot (Eds.), PISA, power and policy: The emergence of global educational governance (pp. 7–26). Oxford: Symposium Books.
  • Miles, M. B., & Huberman, A. M. (1994). Qualitative data analysis: An expanded sourcebook (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • MOE (2015). Jianli guojia jiance zhidu cujin yiwu jiaoyu zhiliang tigao [Establishing the national monitoring system to raise the quality of basic education]. Retrieved from http://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_xwfb/xw_fbh/moe_2069/xwfbh_2015n/xwfb_150415/150415_sfcl/201504/t20150415_187149.html
  • Mons, N., & Pons, X. (2009, April). The Reception of PISA in France: Knowledge and regulation of the educational system. Project KNOWandPOL, WP 12. Retrieved from http://knowandpol.eu/IMG/pdf/o31.pisa.france.pdf
  • Mu, D. (2012, Dec). Shanghai xinyouzhi xuexiao banhao meiyisuo jiamenkou de xuexiao [new high quality schools in Shanghai to excel in managing every school in the neighbourhood]. Jichu Jiaoyu Kecheng, 108, 22.
  • OECD (2010). PISA 2009 results: Executive summary. Retrieved from https://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/46619703.pdf
  • OECD (2014a). PISA 2012 results in focus What 15-year-olds know and what they can do with what they know. Retrieved from https://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results-overview.pdf
  • OECD (2014b). PISA in focus 46.Retrieved from http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/5jxrhqhtx2xt.pdf?expires=1464329970&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=3DAEBE4F6130674C6442FD730A43D51F
  • Ozga, J. (2012). Introduction: Assessing PISA. European Educational Research Journal, 11(2), 166–171. doi:10.2304/eerj.2012.11.2.166
  • Peng, W. (2013, Dec). Kaoshi buying shi jiaoyu de weiyi zhihuibang [exam should not be the only baton in education]. Jiefang Ribao, 6, 2.
  • Phillips, D. (2000). Learning from elsewhere in education: Some perennial problems revisited with reference to British interest in Germany. Comparative Education, 36(3), 297–307. doi:10.1080/713656617
  • Phillips, D., & Ochs, K. (2003). Processes of policy borrowing in education: Some explanatory and analytical devices. Comparative Education, 39(4), 451–461. doi:10.1080/0305006032000162020
  • Pons, X. (2012). Going beyond the ‘Pisa shock’ discourse: An analysis of the cognitive reception of PISA in six European countries, 2001-2008. European Educational Research Journal, 11(2), 206–226. doi:10.2304/eerj.2012.11.2.206
  • Rinne, R. (2008). The growing supranational impacts of the OECD and the EU on national education policies and the case of Finland. Policy Futures in Education, 6(6), 665–680. doi:10.2304/pfie.2008.6.6.665
  • Schriewer, J. (1990). The method of comparison and the need for externalisation: Methodological criteria and sociological concepts. In J. Schriewer & B. Holmes (eds.), Theories and methods in comparative education (pp. 3–52). Bern: Lang.
  • Sellar, S., & Lingard, B. (2013). Looking East: Shanghai, PISA 2009 and the reconstitution of reference societies in the global education policy field. Comparative Education, 49(4), 464–485. doi:10.1080/03050068.2013.770943
  • Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (2004). Guanyu qieshi jianqing zhongxiao xuesheng guozhong keye fudan de ruogan yijian [Opinions to practically relieve the excessive schoolwork burden of secondary and primary students]. Retrieved from http://www.shmec.gov.cn/web/hdpt/jydjt_detail.php?online_main_id=23
  • Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (2011). Shanghaishi jiaoyu weiyuanhui guanyu ‘Shangahishi zhongxiao xuesheng xueye zhiliang lǜse zhibiao (shixing)’ de shishi yijian [Opinions of the Shanghai Education Commission on the implementation of ‘Green Indicators for the academic quality of primary and secondary school students in Shanghai’ (trial)’.] Retrieved from http://www.shmec. gov.cn/html/xxgk/201111/402152011007.php, 2012-08-3
  • Shen, Z. (2014, Apr). Shanghai: ‘Lüse’ chizi wei xueye zhiliang ‘tiyan’ [Shanghai: The ‘green’ ruler to ‘experience’ academic quality]. Zhongguo Jiaoyu Bao, 5, 3.
  • Steiner-Khamsi, G. (2006). The economics of policy borrowing and lending: A study of late adopters. Oxford Review of Education, 32(5), 665–678. doi:10.1080/03054980600976353
  • Steiner-Khamsi, G. (2009). Comparison: Quo vadis? In R. Cowen & A. M. Kazamias (eds.), International handbook of comparative education (pp. 1141–1158). Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Tan, C. (2012). The culture of education policy making: Curriculum reform in Shanghai. Critical Studies in Education, 53(2), 153–167. doi:10.1080/17508487.2012.672333
  • Tan, C. (2013). Learning from shanghai: Lessons on achieving educational success. Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Tan, C. (2016a). Educational policy borrowing in China: Looking West or looking East? Oxon: Routledge.
  • Tan, C. (2016b). Chinese responses to Shanghai’s PISA performance. Unpublished manuscript
  • Tan, C. (2016c). Tensions and challenges in China’s education policy borrowing. Educational Research, 1–12. doi:10.1080/00131881.2016.1165551
  • Tucker, M. S. (Ed.). (2014). Chinese lessons: Shanghai’s rise to the top of the PISA league tables.Washington, DC: National Centre on Education and the Economy.
  • Waldow, F. (2012). Standardisation and legitimacy. In G. Steiner-Khamsi & F. Waldow (Eds.), World yearbook of education: Policy borrowing and lending in education (pp. 411–423). New York: Routledge.
  • Waldow, F., Takayama, T., & Sung, Y.-K. (2014). Rethinking the pattern of external policy referencing: Media discourses over the ‘Asian Tigers” PISA success in Australia, Germany and South Korea. Comparative Education, 50(3), 302–321. doi:10.1080/03050068.2013.860704
  • Wang, J. (2012a). Kandong PISA, kandong Zhongguo jiaoyu [Understand PISA, understanding education in China]. Wenhui Bao, Apr 21, p. A.
  • Wang, M. (2013a, Dec). Kandai woguo jichu jiaoyu bufang duo yi fen lixing [better to adopt a rational view regarding basic education in China]. Zhongguo Jiaoyu Bao, 13, 2.
  • Wang, M. (2013b). Shanghai she zhongxiao xuesheng xueye zhiliang lǜse zhibiao zonghe pingjia gaige yanjie [Research on the green indicator integrated appraisal reform for the academic quality of secondary and primary students in Shanghai]. Retrieved from http://www.cnsaes.org/homepage/Upfile/2013126/2013120665257661.pdf
  • Wang, M. (2014a, Sep). Kandai PISA ceshi bufang duo fen pingchang xin [better to adopt a balanced perspective in looking at PISA]. Zhongguo Jiaoyubao, 1, 2.
  • Wang, W. (2014b). Shanghai gaozhongsheng redian wenti diaocha baogao: shuimian buchu renwei jiejue [Survey report on a hot topic for senior secondary students in Shanghai: The problem of insufficient sleep is still unresolved] Xinmin Wanbao. Retrieved from http://edu.people.com.cn/n/2014/0818/c1053-25482363.html
  • Wang, Y. (2012b, June). Xinyouzhi xuexiao quyu longqi de mou yu dao [new high quality schools, the strategy and logic for the rising up of districts]. Zhongguo Jiaoyu Bao, 21, 5.
  • Willis, D., & Rappleye, J. (2011). Education in Japan: Testing the limits of Asian education. Foro De Educación, 9(13), 19–35.
  • Xia, X. (2015). Dakai kecheng yu jiaoxue guocheng de heixiang: Xuexiao heyi youzhi [Opening the black box of curriculum and the teaching process: What makes a school excellent]. Shanghai Jiaoyu Keyan, March, 7–12.
  • Xu, J., & Yan, J. (2015). Integrating transversal competencies in education policy and practice in shanghai - People’s republic of China. Paris and Bangkok: UNESCO. Retrieved from http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002319/231907E.pdf
  • Xu, Q. (2015, July). Ruyuan nan ruxue nan, jiachang jiaolü ruhe jie [difficult admission to kindergarten, difficult admission to school, how to resolve the anxiety of parents]. Jiefang Ribao, 11, 6.
  • Yin, H. (2014, Mar). Pingjia gaige: Xianxing xianshi xianhuoli – Shanghai shi ‘lüse zhibiao’ zonghe pingjia gaige toushi [appraisal reform: First to implement, first to experiment, first to benefit – Perspective on the comprehensive appraisal reform of ‘green index’ in Shanghai]. Zhongguo Jiaoyu Bao, 4, 7.
  • You, Y., & Morris, P. (2015). Imagining school autonomy in high-performing education systems: East Asia as a source of policy referencing in England. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 1–24. doi:10.1080/03057925.2015.1080115
  • Zhang, C., & Alexander, A. (2012). PISA as a legitimacy tool during China’s education reform: Case study of Shanghai. TranState Working Papers, No. 166. Retrieved from http://econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/64810/1/727146068.pdf
  • Zhu, X. (n.d.). Jiyu zhengce gaijin de pingjia – Shanghai PISA 2009 shishi, jieguo yu yingxiang [Appraisal to improve policy – The implementation, outcome and impact of Shanghai PISA 2009].. Retrieved from http://www.cnsaes.org/homepage/Upfile/2013126/2013120649357285.pdf

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.