Sense Publishers, 2011. — 43 p. — ISBN: 978-94-6091-740-0.
PISA or the Programme for International Student Assessment of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) is one of the most famous educational events of the last decades. Thousands of students from sixty-two different countries (the OECD countries plus country partners which signed a contract with this institution) have been recently involved in its tests for the 2009 PISA (the fourth report of this kind was presented in December 2010).
The Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) is an international non-profit making association of scientific and educational character. CESE was founded in 1961 in London and is a founding society of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES).
CESE has traditionally promoted a space for dialogue amongst scholars, specialists and young researchers from the field of education and other disciplines.
More specifically, its purpose is to encourage and promote comparative and international studies in education.