Yong Zhao

Build back better: Avoid the learning loss trap.

Yong Zhao

Journal article  |  2021  |  Prospects (Paris)

A dangerous trap exists for educators and education policy makers: the learning loss. This trap comes with a large amount of data ..

The changes we need: Education post COVID-19

Yong Zhao, Jim Watterston

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL CHANGE

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused both unprecendented disruptions and massive changes to education. However, as schools return, the..

Social Learning and Learning to Be Social: From Online Instruction to Online Education

Yong Zhao

Journal article  |  2020  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION

COVID-19 as a catalyst for educational change.

Yong Zhao

Journal article  |  2020  |  Prospects (Paris)

The massive damages of COVID-19 may be incalculable. But in the spirit of never wasting a good crisis, COVID-19 represents an oppo..

Tofu Is Not Cheese: Rethinking Education Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Y Zhao

Journal article  |  2020  |  ECNU Review of Education

Two decades of havoc: A synthesis of criticism against PISA

Y Zhao

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Educational Change

The Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA) has become one of the most influential forces in global education. The ..

Inventing the Future: Why International Borrowing is no Longer Sufficient for Improving Education

Y Zhao

Book Chapter  |  2020

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the consequences of mutual borrowing of educational policies and practices between the E..

Side Effects of Large-Scale Assessments in Education

TE Emler, Y Zhao, J Deng, D Yin, Y Wang

Journal article  |  2019  |  ECNU Review of Education

Purpose: In line with a recent call for side effects research in education, this article aims to synthesize the major concerns tha..

Respect the Power of Large-Scale Assessments: What They Cannot Measure

Z Yuan, Y Zhao

Journal article  |  2019  |  ECNU Review of Education

Tackling the Wicked Problem of Measuring What Matters: Framing the Questions

Y Zhao, M Wehmeyer, J Basham, D Hansen

Journal article  |  2019  |  ECNU Review of Education

Purpose: Making policy makers, researcher, education leaders, and assessment developers aware that what matters in education asses..