International Large-Scale Education Assessments: Research Perspectives & Insights for Global Educators | Comparative Studies & Policy Analysis" （注：原标题已为英文，主要优化点： 1. 更简洁清晰的结构 2. 增加关键词密度（Education/Research/Global） 3. 补充使用场景说明（for Global Educators） 4. 添加具体内容指向（Comparative Studies & Policy Analysis） 5. 符合SEO规范的关键词排列）

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This book explores the often controversial international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) in education and offers research-based accounts of international testing as a social practice. Assessment exercises, such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), produce comparable international statistics and rankings on educational performance, and are influential practices that shape educational policy on a global scale. The chapters in this volume, written by expert researchers in the field, take the reader behind the scenes to document a broad range of ILSA practices – from the recruitment of countries into ILSAs, to the production and performance of large-scale testing, and the management, media reception and use of test data. Based on data that is only available to expert researchers with inside access, the international case study material includes examples from Australia, Ecuador, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden, the UK and the USA. The volume provides important insights for teachers, researchers and policy-makers who use and study assessment data and who wish to evaluate its significance for educational policy and practice.