EDUC 6610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Human Development Index, Financial Literacy, Programme For International Student Assessment
23 Sep 2016
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Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. The chance for the government and the schools to reflect on their education (which part of the assessment did they appreciate and which parts were they nervous about?) Shed light on the political structure, values, agendas of the government. The common core in the u. s. ignores civic education. Backdrop of international tests: six subject study civic education (1971) Explore results of the objectives of ce, influences other than school (family, mass media, or friends) Countries have to pay a lot to participate (not a cheap study: civic education study (cived, 1999) Championed by a female scholar from umd (judith tourney-purta) Last set of data available for the u. s. (us students trusted media more than government institutions; older students had more negative view of their own government) Built upon cived framework on content dimension, affective behavior modeling.
