| Title: |
Testing, Testing, Read All about It: Canadian Press Coverage of the PISA Results |
| Language: |
English |
| Authors: |
Stack, Michelle |
| Source: |
Canadian Journal of Education. 2006 29(1):49-69. |
| Availability: |
Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). 260 Dalhousie Street Suite 204, Ottawa, ON K1N 7E4, Canada. Tel: 613-241-0018; Fax: 613-241-0019; e-mail: csse-scee@csse.ca; Web site: http://www.csse.ca/CJE/General.htm |
| Peer Reviewed: |
Y |
| Page Count: |
21 |
| Publication Date: |
2006 |
| Document Type: |
Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: |
Discourse Analysis; Testing; International Education; Foreign Countries; Political Attitudes; Journalism Education; Statistics; Criticism |
| Geographic Terms: |
Canada |
| Assessment and Survey Identifiers: |
Program for International Student Assessment |
| ISSN: |
0380-2361 |
| Abstract: |
This article is a critical discourse analysis of coverage in the "National Post" and the "Globe and Mail" concerning the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's 2000 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). In this article, I have shown how numbers are interpreted through statistics to create a reality and analyzed the mechanisms used, through which information is constructed and reconstructed by and for the media. I have also explored how diverse voices are represented. The discourses of neoliberalism were embedded in the coverage of the PISA results and discourses that accentuated regional stereotypes were in use. (Contains 1 note.) |
| Abstractor: |
Author |
| Number of References: |
54 |
| Entry Date: |
2007 |
| Access URL: |
http://www.csse.ca/CJE/Articles/CJE29-1.htm |
| Accession Number: |
EJ750356 |
| Database: |
ERIC |