This is an e-guide to Pisa, for one day visit to the Piazza dei Miracoli and its famous Leaning Tower. It is ideal for use on your smart phone, it contains active links to the web sites of train companies, so you can with a click from the guide check the latest schedule and even buy the tickets. [...]

Understanding PISA's Attractiveness examines how policy makers and the media interpret the results of PISA league-leaders, losers, and slippers in ways that suit their own reform agendas. As a result, a myriad of explanations exist as to why an educational system is high or low performing. The chapt[...]

This vibrant series covers over 170 destinations worldwide, including our new range of UK specific titles, from cosmopolitan urban delights to sun-kissed beach idylls. Bursting with insightful and easily accessible information, these guides are full of practical information on how to make the most o[...]

* The Leaning Tower* The Baptistry* Galileo * Details of the important architecture and art to be found in the city.[...]

Studies of late medieval Tuscany have traditionally relied on historiographical premises derived from the experience of its intensely investigated capital city. Specifically, normative and quantitative data from Florentine sources have been employed to chart demographic, social, and economic trends [...]

This book explores teaching and learning in lower secondary classrooms in the three PISA domains science, mathematics and reading. Based on extensive video documentation from science, math and reading classrooms in Norwegian secondary schooling, it analyzes how offered and experienced teaching and l[...]

Das deutsche Bildungssystem hinkt hinsichtlich seiner Leistungsfähigkeit und der Bereitstellung gleicher Bildungschancen im internationalen Vergleich stark hinterher. Diese Tatsache ist jedoch keinesfalls eine neue Erkenntnis. Schon 1964 rief Georg Picht den Bildungsnotstand aus. Als Defizi[...]

Denne boken viser hvordan utdanningspolitiske visjoner endres i lys av Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), og forfatterne diskuterer både tilsiktede og utilsiktede konsekvenser av slike undersøkelser. Artiklene spenner over flere fagfelt og berører nasjonale reformer, vurdering[...]