Data for Accountability in Education

Gita Steiner-Khamsi, William H. Kilpatrick Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University, Patricia Bromley, Associate Professor, Stanford University, USA, Rie Kijima, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Canada, Kerstin Martens, Professor, University of Bremen, Germany and Antoni Verger, Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

• ContentsPreface 1 Understanding global reform trends and their variedimpacts: making a case for complementary researchperspectives and agendasGita Steiner-Khamsi, Patricia Bromley, Rie Kijima,Kerstin Martens and Antoni Verger2 Accountability without responsibility? The era ofdatafication in education reformPatricia Bromley3 Pathways of performance-based accountability: aninstrumentation perspective on educational reformsAntoni Verger4 The layers of dataficationGita Steiner-Khamsi5 Global trends in assessment reformsRie Kijima6 Accountability from above: examining internationalorganisations in education policyKerstin MartensReferences

‘Globalisation is not dead! It develops through big data, measures, ranking and the making of global fields such as education promoted by international organisations. This major book, based upon long term research, brilliantly brings to the fore the globalisation of education data, the instrumentation of data-driven governance tools by policy entrepreneurs and what is at stake for accountability and control. « Governance by numbers 2.0 » is invading the world: this essential book explains why and for whom. Welcome to the field of global comparative education studies!’