This volume offers a critical examination of the Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), focusing on its origins and implementation, relationship to other international large-scale assessments, and its impacts on educational policy and reform at national and cross-national levels.

António Teodoro is Professor of Sociology of Education and Comparative Education at Lusofona University, Portugal. He is also Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development (CeiED).

Introduction: A Success Story? Critical Perspectives on PISA as a Means of Global Governance

António Teodoro

1: Invisible Struggles, Encoded Fantasies and Ritualized Incantations: A Critical Infrastructure Studies Analysis of PISA

Camilla Addey

2: How PISA is Present in the Scientific Production: A Bibliometric Review

Carlos Décio Cordeiro and Vítor Duarte Teodoro

3: PISA as Epistemic Governance within the European Political Arithmetic of Inequalities: A Sociological Perspective Illustrating the French Case

Romuald normand

4: Pisa and the Curricular Reforms in Brazil: The Influence of a Powerful Regulatory Instrument

João Luiz Horta Neto

5: Testing PISA Tests: A Study about how Secondary and College Students Answer Pisa Items in Mathematics and Science

Vítor Duarte Teodoro, Vítor Rosa, João Sampaio Maia, and Daniela Mascarenhas

6: International Large-Scale Assessment: Issues from Portugal's Participation in TIMSS, PIRLS and ICILS

Vítor Rosa

7: PISA in Media Discourse: Prominence, Tone, Voices and Meanings

Ana Carita, Teresa Teixeira Lopo, and Vítor Duarte Teodoro

8: OECD and Education: How PISA is becoming a 'Big Science' Project

Vítor Rosa and Ana Lourdes Araújo

Conclusion: Limitations and Risks of an OECD Global Governance Project

António Teodoro