Moral panic, miracle cures and educational policy: what can we really learn from international comparison?
Alexander, Robin John · White Rose Research Online
In many countries, including the UK, the potential of international student achievement surveys such as TIMSS and PISA is being subverted by political and media fixation on the resulting league tables. These prompt not just well-founded efforts to learn from others’ success but also ill-founded assertions about educational cause and effect, inappropriate tra…