Using the PISA 2006 database we have shown that findings about gender differences at the general level of overall population of 15-year-olds change considerably when gender differences are studied within individual educational programmes. A possible explanation for this seeming contradiction was found in gender variability among students enrolled in individual educational programmes and in the finding that larger proportions of high-achieving male students in comparison to their female peers enter other educational programmes in addition to general and classical upper-secondary programmes.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1968983
In the article we focused on some aspects of the PISA studies in the context of crtitical analysis of society, which proclaims itself the knowledge society. The knowledge society is increasingly becoming a society of semi-education (Adorno) and uneducation (Liessmann). In the range of discussion Liessmann theory the PISA studies are critical issue as something that has an immense impact on both the management of the national school policies as well as changing the national curriculum and school practices mainly due to the effects of ranking countries according to students' knowledge.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1967191