Description du projet
Cartographier l’industrie de l’évaluation internationale à grande échelle
L’évaluation internationale à grande échelle, autrement connue sous l’acronyme ILSA (International large-scale assessment), est un ensemble de tests normalisés et menés par des organisations internationales. Ces tests sont appliqués mondialement et leur impact a augmenté considérablement dans le domaine de l’éducation et de la recherche. Plus important encore, au cours de ces dernières années, un groupe d’entreprises privées a fini par dominer les ILSA. Le projet ILSAINC, financé par l’UE, vise à cartographier l’industrie mondiale des ILSA, à explorer leurs travaux et à étudier les institutions industrielles connexes et les pratiques du pouvoir. Enfin, l’étude cherche à mettre en question les pratiques déloyales qui ont été normalisées dans ce domaine au cours des dernières années, les rendant plus transparentes et plus responsables.
Objectif
In the last two decades, education policy, practice and research have been transformed by the appearance and growing influence of International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs), which are standardized tests administered by International Organizations (IOs) all around the world. The outsourcing of the development and implementation of ILSAs from International Organizations to private companies has created a global ILSA industry. But how does the global ILSA industry operate and how does it shape ILSAs?
Over the last two decades, a small, well-established group of private companies have come to control the global ILSA industry, even as ILSAs expand in scope and reach. Although scholars have extensively studied how ILSAs have impacted on education, the global ILSA industry has not been addressed by scholarship possibly due to its recent emergence and the high levels of access that are necessary.
Drawing on global education policy scholarship on privatization, Critical Data Studies, and Business Studies, and applying a network ethnography approach, this research project aims to: 1) map the global ILSA industry by identifying the actors to whom ILSAs are outsourced; 2) to theorize how the global ILSA industry emerged, stabilised and operates - particularly focusing on the global ILSA industry institutions and relationships, the network functioning, forms of agency, and power practices; 3) to investigate how ILSAs are shaped by the practices, values, profit interests and power dynamics of the private sector. Ultimately, this analysis seeks to challenge unfair practices that have been normalized over the past two decades and aims to make all those developing education accountability infrastructures also accountable and their practices more transparent.
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