Debatten om PISA. Aktörer, debattämnen, konfliktpunkter
(2014) STVM25 20141Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide international survey conducted every third year with the purpose to evaluate the education systems in many different countries by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year old students. PISA tests the students knowledge in reading, mathematics and science. Since 2000, the PISA test is performed each third year, as 15-year old students are randomly selected worldwide to take a test within these subjects.
The motivation for this study is to investigate why the results of Swedish pupils continues to tumble. Swedish pupils knowledge results have fallen below the OECD average. The declining results and knowledges of Swedish pupils has hence led to a big debate about... (More) - The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide international survey conducted every third year with the purpose to evaluate the education systems in many different countries by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year old students. PISA tests the students knowledge in reading, mathematics and science. Since 2000, the PISA test is performed each third year, as 15-year old students are randomly selected worldwide to take a test within these subjects.
The motivation for this study is to investigate why the results of Swedish pupils continues to tumble. Swedish pupils knowledge results have fallen below the OECD average. The declining results and knowledges of Swedish pupils has hence led to a big debate about how this issue could be explained and the education system has been questioned.
In this thesis the purpose is to study the debate about the Swedish PISA results and the national education system. In the study a triangulation of methods is applied. A statistical analysis of national media, mainly news paper articles dating back to year 2000, is applied to show the scope of the debate and how much it has been written about PISA related to the Swedish education system. In the study the main method applied is a qualitative text analysis of national media, news paper articles.
The results of the statistical analys and qualitative text analys shows that the declining teacher status, school segregation and early tracking of pupils, decentralization and the major increase in private schools since the beginning of 1990 are some of the the main explanatory reasons for the declining results of Swedish pupils according to the debate. (Less)
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- author
- Ciganovic, Dragan LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVM25 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- PISA, friskolevalet, friskolor, skolsegregation, decentralisering, läraryrkets status, variation in international student performance, top down approach, bottom up approach
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 4449021
- date added to LUP
- 2014-07-07 14:46:51
- date last changed
- 2014-07-07 14:46:51
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abstract = {{The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide international survey conducted every third year with the purpose to evaluate the education systems in many different countries by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year old students. PISA tests the students knowledge in reading, mathematics and science. Since 2000, the PISA test is performed each third year, as 15-year old students are randomly selected worldwide to take a test within these subjects.
The motivation for this study is to investigate why the results of Swedish pupils continues to tumble. Swedish pupils knowledge results have fallen below the OECD average. The declining results and knowledges of Swedish pupils has hence led to a big debate about how this issue could be explained and the education system has been questioned.
In this thesis the purpose is to study the debate about the Swedish PISA results and the national education system. In the study a triangulation of methods is applied. A statistical analysis of national media, mainly news paper articles dating back to year 2000, is applied to show the scope of the debate and how much it has been written about PISA related to the Swedish education system. In the study the main method applied is a qualitative text analysis of national media, news paper articles.
The results of the statistical analys and qualitative text analys shows that the declining teacher status, school segregation and early tracking of pupils, decentralization and the major increase in private schools since the beginning of 1990 are some of the the main explanatory reasons for the declining results of Swedish pupils according to the debate.}},
author = {{Ciganovic, Dragan}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Debatten om PISA. Aktörer, debattämnen, konfliktpunkter}},
year = {{2014}},
}