Laboratory of International Assessment Studies

In this post, Maksud Ali, Obaidul Hamid & Ian Hardy from the University of Queensland, discuss their recent paper 'Ritualisation of testing: problematising high-stakes English-language testing in Bangladesh', published in COMPARE, 2020 (vol 50, Issue 4). High-stakes testing has become an [...]

By Roar Grøttvik, Political adviser, Union of Education Norway   The education systems in most OECD countries have now lived with the consequences of International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs) for more than a quarter of a century. Although these international assessments (TIMSS, PISA, [...]

By Laura Engel (The George Washington University) and David Rutkowski (Indiana University) International large-scale assessments (ILSAs) are a fairly recent phenomena, developed in the mid-20th century and rapidly picking up steam since the mid-1990s. In the last decade, the ILSA industry [...]