Tonia Bieber|Kerstin Martens
The OECD PISA Study as a Soft Power in Education? Lessons from Switzerland and the US
University of Bremen|University of Bremen
although originally created economic purposes organisation economic cooperation development oecd increasingly gained weight education policy recent years regarded international authority field particularly programme international student assessment pisa highly esteemed many countries enabled diverse domestic education reforms oecd derived variety policy recommendations pisa results however implemented national level oecd able achieve impact member states yet analysed sufficient depth answer questions analyse oecd recommendations reflected switzerland us reception differs across countries assess conditions policy convergence towards oecd model took place elaborate governance mechanisms caused policy convergence show switzerland pisas platform transnational communication enabled policy learning expert level thus leading rather high degree policy convergence case us pisa regarded one many studies assessing performance education systems