Descrizione del progetto
Mappatura del settore internazionale della valutazione su larga scala
Le valutazioni internazionali su larga scala, altrimenti note come ILSA (international large-scale assessment), sono test standardizzati gestiti da organizzazioni internazionali. Esse vengono applicate a livello globale e il loro impatto sull’istruzione e sulla ricerca è cresciuto in modo significativo. Aspetto ancora più importante, negli ultimi anni le ILSA sono state dominate da una nicchia di aziende private. Il progetto ILSAINC, finanziato dall’UE, ha lo scopo di tracciare una mappa del settore ILSA a livello mondiale, studiarne il funzionamento e sondarne le istituzioni e le pratiche di potere. In definitiva, l’indagine cerca di contrastare le pratiche sleali che sono state normalizzate nel settore negli ultimi anni al fine di renderle più trasparenti e affidabili.
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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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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinatore
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