The supranational regulation operated by PISA: building international credibility

Abstract

This test of qualitative nature reflects on the International Assessment, called PISA and its potential to induce other educational policies, in the trake of supranational regulations. With result, the theme of the evaluation on a large scale in the case, the PISA finds its genesis in the effort to rationalize of social policies, among them, education, from the crisis of the Providence State in the central countries. It’s hoped the analysis of dossiers of evaluation on a large scale, whose Standardized feature translates it’s economic matrix to the  interest, marketing,  based on the supranational regulation, in the publication of results by the media, boosting competitiveness between schools and education networks, reflecting the marketing  sphere and producing rankings between countries. The effect the pretext of monitoring quality, the PISA carries the sign of the productive restructuring of capitalism and its transformations. And, still, it is understood that the exam ends up producing the hierarchy of countries through knowledge. The Certame operates a process of supranational regulation, reinforced by the processes of hegemonic globalization. The choice of PISA as the focus of analysis is situated, therefore, in its macro influence, determining in thesis, the formulation of educational policies in Brazil and Portugal.