À quoi servent les enquêtes PISA ?

This paper examines how PISA surveys have been received and employed in French-speaking Belgium. It involves studying the application of highly specific instrument to a context whose particular characteristics have been forged over time. After pointing out the historically specific attributes of consociational politics in Belgium, and the traditionally modest place of knowledge in the making of public policy (Mangez, 2009, 2010), we will focus on the PISA instrument. What kind of instrument is it? Does it resemble a mechanism of the Evaluative State, that is, is it an instrument useful in deci... Mehr ...