In this book chapter that she contributed to a book entitled Understanding PISA’s attractiveness: Critical analyses in comparative policy studies, Kirsten Sivesind first outlines how participation in ILSAs has varied across the Nordic region in the past fifty years. She then looks closely into the Norwegian context and analyzes twenty-two Norwegian governmental papers written between 1995 and 2016, exploring the following questions: To what extent are Norwegian policy-makers and experts using ILSAs to call for policy borrowing from Finland? Is foreign knowledge used to evaluate, assess, and justify school reform by referencing best practices? If so, in which realms are international data and findings considered relevant?
To cite this chapter:
Sivesind, K. (2019). Nordic reference societies in school reforms in Norway: An examination of Finland and the use of international large-scale assessments. In F. Waldow & G. Steiner-Khamsi (Eds.), Understanding PISA’s attractiveness: Critical analyses in comparative policy studies (pp. 89–107). Bloomsbury.
This work was supported by the POLTRANS project.