Mary Hamilton
How International Large-Scale Skills Assessments engage with national actors: mobilising networks through policy, media and public knowledge
Lancaster University
paper examines international largescale skills assessments ilsas engage broader societies seek serve improve looks particularly discursive work done different interest groups media findings become part public conversations translated usable form policy arenas paper discusses individual countries mobilised participate international surveys public release findings managed known current research findings reported interpreted media research area shows international national actors engage actively strategically ilsas influence interpretation findings subsequent policy outcomes however efforts indeterminate paper argues profound level public imagination education outcomes evidence needed know ilsas achieve totalising effects