Governance by data circulation? The production, availability, and use of national large-scale assessment dataNelli Piattoeva et al.

From science to politics: commissioned reports and their political translation into White Papers

“…Finally, a few scholars examined the impact that this particular type of structural coupling has had on the relation between different levels of bureaucracies within a state. Most recently, Piattoeva et al (2018) convincingly argued that the governments of Brazil, China, and Russia (the objects of their study) resort to "governance by data circulation" in an effort to reach out to district authorities. Apparently, externalization to "scientific rationality" helps to temporarily build coalitions across interest groups, even when the consensus may be manufactured and built on an illusory consensus (Verger et al 2018).…”

Numbers and their contexts: how quantified actors narrate numbers and decontextualization

“…In the study reported here, the interviewees often mentioned a conflict between the demand for evidence-informed decisions on the one hand, and the fast pace of performance evaluation on the other hand (Piattoeva, Centeno, Suominen, Rinne, 2018). Nevertheless, researchers, experts and policymakers were attracted to numbers as a means of making education "reality" known, seeing the expansion of testing procedures as a means of gaining a better overview.…”

Governance and the Evolving Global Education Order

“…A particular interest here is the relation between neo-liberal management ideology, international standards and the governance of education through comparison (e.g., N ovoa & Yariv-Mashal, 2003). One rich strand of research has explained education reform in terms of globalization processes, especially policy convergence (e.g., Ozga et al, 2011;Piattoeva et al 2018;Waldow et al, 2014) and enactment (e.g., Wiseman & Waluyo, 2018). Another important theme, highlighted in this volume, is the way in which international standardized evaluations are used by governments to legitimate local policy priorities.…”