The role of international large-scale assessment performed by international organizations in global governance and implications for Iran; Effectiveness mechanisms and functions

The present study aims to investigate the importance, Functionalities, and effective mechanisms of international large-scale assessments and their role in global governance through the procedures. With implementing systematic documentary analysis, documents selected in a systematic procedure and then analyzed in a systematic way. Results have shown that ILSAs which perform by Co-operation and economic development organization and international association for the evaluation of educational achievement, in the last decades be as one of the most influential factors on national educational policies of countries in the world. Results about performance show that these assessments can affect as thermometer or whips over multi-layer mechanism on educational structure. The results about role of ILSAs in global governance show that performing and developing of these assessments in the last decades creates softer form of governance such as governance by information, governance by persuasion, governance by rating and ranking, governance by opinion formation, governance by comparison.