How not to reason with PISA data: an ironic investigation

Journal of Education Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 845-855

  Feniger, Yariv ^a   Lefstein, Adam ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

comparative; critical analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906255452     PISSN: 02680939     EISSN: 14645106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2014.892156     Document Type: Article

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