Li, X;
Morris, P;
(2023)
Measuring and misrepresenting the missing millions: the OECD’s assessment of out-of-school youth in PISA for Development.
Critical Studies in Education
10.1080/17508487.2023.2227227.
(In press).
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Abstract
PISA for Development (PISA-D) was a pioneering pilot project designed to make PISA, which compares the performance of 15-year-olds in school, more suitable for low- and middle-income countries. This would allow the OECD to move beyond its traditional focus on more affluent nations and to play a central role in monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals. PISA-D was declared a success by the OECD, and its most innovative feature was that, unlike PISA, its assessment included out-of-school youth (OOSY). We analyse that strand of the assessment focussing on who was assessed. We argue that the inclusion of OOSY has been misrepresented by the OECD. Building on the literature serving as the OECD’s sources of legitimacy and applying Suchman’s framework for analysing organisational legitimacy, we portray its shifting definitions of OOSY as a tactical move that allowed it to ensure the project’s success and resolve problems that challenged its sources of legitimacy.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Measuring and misrepresenting the missing millions: the OECD’s assessment of out-of-school youth in PISA for Development |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17508487.2023.2227227 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2023.2227227 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | PISA-D; OECD; out-of-school youth; organisational legitimacy; SDGs; PISA |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10173844 |
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