World Yearbook of Education 2021

Introduction: Accountability and Datafication in Education: Historical, Transnational and Conceptual perspectives Part I: The global/local construction of accountability and datafication Chapter 1: The Construction of Worlds. On the Function and Fiction of quantified data in education policy Chapter 2: The construction of SDG4: Reconciling democratic imperatives and technocratic expertise in the making of global education data? Chapter 3: Re-engineering the infrastructure of performance-based accountability. For-profit philanthropy, learning sciences, and automated education at the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative Chapter 4: Between Fairness Optimization and 'Inequalities of Dataveillance' - the Emergence and Transformation of Social Indices in German School Monitoring and Management Chapter 5: Capacity Building as the 'Third Translation': The Story of PISA-D in Cambodia Part II: Global discourse and national translations of performance-based accountability policies Chapter 6: National Testing and Accountability in the Scandinavian Welfare States: Education Policy Translations in Norway, Denmark and Sweden Chapter 7: Accountability and Datafication in Francophone Contexts: A Reinforcing Cognitive State Still Challenged by Local Actors Chapter 8: National Standardized Assessments in South Africa: Policy and Power Play Chapter 9: Accountability Policies in Chinese Basic Education: the Long March towards Quality and Evidence Chapter 10: Performance-based accountability in Brazil : Trends of Diversification and Integration Part III: Enactments and effects of accountability and datafication: controversies and critical issues Chapter 11: A Sociological Analysis of the Effects of Standards-Based Accountability Policies on the Distribution of Educational Outcomes Chapter 12: Siren song: performance-based accountability systems, effectiveness, and equity. Evidence from PISA in education systems in Europe and Canada. Chapter 13: In and out of the 'pressure cooker': Schools' varying responses to accountability and datafication Chapter 14: The Performative to the Datafied Teacher Subject: Teacher Evaluation in Tennessee Chapter 15: Enactments and resistances to globalizing testing regimes and performance-based accountability in the USA