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Program for International Student Assessment, used here as the international test where Shanghai ranked first and became the trigger for the China education debate.
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PISA
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Glossary
The Programme for International Student Assessment, treated here as a comparative test of national education systems.
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He presents the PISA rankings as the conventional evidence for believing East Asia will dominate economically, while warning that academic performance is not the same as social power.
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Jiang says PISA only gives a snapshot of elite Chinese regions such as Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Beijing rather than the whole country.
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Jiang says 12 Chinese provinces participated when PISA entered China in 2009, but only Shanghai results were publicly released in 2010 because OECD was confident in Shanghai methodology.
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The hosts frame Chinese education as a tension between high test performance and criticism of rote pedagogy, Gaokao teaching, rigidity, hierarchy, and cheating.
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Jiang argues PISA is skewed toward skills emphasized by East Asian education systems rather than neutral proof of general educational superiority.
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Jiang says PISA only captures how fourteen-year-olds perform in school, an especially volatile age shaped by puberty and hormonal change.
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Every test, including IQ, SAT, Gaokao, and PISA, fundamentally tests the ability to do well on that test.
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Jiang says PISA functions as a test of a nation's education system and that Shanghai ranked first in both the 2009 and 2012 cycles.
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"2018 the PISA is the program for international student assessment so every three years the OECD which is which is a national organization around..."
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"you actually look at american society and you look at who succeeds it turns out east asians don't do as well as you think..."
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"lot of diversity in china so um peace only takes a snapshot of certain regions of china shanghai is doing extremely well uh jiangsu..."
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"...the one hand the Shanghai students kicking serious ass on the PISA, the Program for International Student Assessment. They took first place in mathematics..."
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"...much. I promise. So let's talk first about Shanghai's very impressive PISA results, which was included by the OECD in tests, I think, for..."
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"Well, in 2009, PISA entered China for the first time, and 12 provinces, including Shanghai, participated in the PISA. And in 2010, when the..."
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"...top 10 for sure. Right. So these Asian countries dominate these PISA rankings. And you can make the argument that that's really an indicator..."
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"Sure. My issues with the PISA are many. But the first issue is that the PISA test is a snapshot of the education system..."
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"...which is the National College Interest Examination in China, including the PISA. So the fact of the matter is that East Asia is a..."
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"...name is Fergus Thompson. Every three years, the results from the PISA assessment, that's the Programme for International Student Assessment, come out to much..."
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"...test of a nation's education system. And for the past two PISAs, the first in 2009 and the second in 2012, Shanghai has placed..."
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"...the most famous italians he's a great military strategist uh of pisa and um eventually because he is so ambitious he's a very machiavellian..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on immigration as a game: school success is not status, rule-following can become a trap, fertility and cohesion beat obedience, and America's open-society ideal begins as a settler...
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Jiang starts by explaining why China became the world's largest and most lucrative edtech market: educational scarcity, parental obsession, test-score clarity, and WeChat infrastructure.
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Shanghai can win PISA and still not prove that its schools are forming whole people.
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The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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