Researcher Teresa Teixeira Lopo has published a new article in the journal Policy Futures in Education.

In this research note, which can be read in full here, the author first reconstructs the genealogy of the political decision on Portugal's entry into PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), promoted by the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), decided in 1999 and implemented in 2000. The first results of this analysis suggest that the decision, which was not unanimous among the members of the government with responsibility for education, was taken out of normative emulation, and aimed to consolidate a certain orientation of the national education policy agenda.

This text is part of a broader study being carried out as part of the research project A success story? Portugal and PISA (2000-2015), funded by the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, and focused on analyzing the political assumptions - motivations, interests and reasons - underlying Portugal's participation in the first cycle of PISA, in 2000, and in subsequent cycles until 2015.