The latest issue of EDUSER: revista de educação, a journal of the School of Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, publishes a scientific article by Vítor Rosa, as part of his research on the PISA_PT project.

The text is about “A OCDE e a política global de educação: o PISA como ‘big science’“. First used in the United States of America (USA) in 1961, the concept of “big science” refers to large-scale scientific research, with large budgets, large teams, large instruments and laboratories, with the production of huge amounts of data, etc. The article analyses how the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), carried out by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), can fit into this concept of “big science”.