Experts' Opinions on the High Achievement of Scientific Literacy in PISA 2003: A Comparative Study in Finland and Korea

Autor/inn/en	Kim, Minkee; Lavonen, Jari; Ogawa, Masakata
Titel	Experts' Opinions on the High Achievement of Scientific Literacy in PISA 2003: A Comparative Study in Finland and Korea
Quelle	In: EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 5 (2009) 4, S.379-393 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1305-8223
Schlagwörter	Opinions; High Achievement; Foreign Countries; Scientific Literacy; Comparative Analysis; Accountability; Comparative Education; Specialists; Etiology; Educational Policy; Public Education; Private Education; National Surveys; Questionnaires; Program Implementation; Finland; South Korea; Program for International Student Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrmeinung; Ausland; Verantwortung; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Ätiologie; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Öffentliche Erziehung; Privatunterricht; Fragebogen; Finnland; Korea; Republik
Abstract	Despite the breadth of coverage and collaboration, few empirical studies have concerned educational background and its implementation in order for scrutinising the reasons for students' high scientific literacy in Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003 at international level. Rather, many report the data as evidence of successful accountability in a country. In order to illuminate reasons for the high achievement, experts from Finland and Korea participated in a web-based survey. Their opinions revealed heterogeneous contributors: Korean parental support and private education, and Finnish policy involving educational equality; Finnish and Korean teacher education; and Korean centralisation, and Finnish devolution of curriculum and its implementation. Because of the reasons which are irrelevant to the policy orientation of PISA, careful analysis of the educational background and implementation ought to be recognised in advance of reporting the students' achievement as evidence of national accountability. (Contains 8 tables, 1 figure, and 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10