Drawing on Marion Fourcade’s notion of ordinalization, we develop a conceptual grammar of comparison to explain a shift in the nature and outcomes of the governing capacity of the OECD over time. We argue that comparison as a mode of governance has been bound into the DNA of the OECD as a lever for advancing political liberalism since the inception of the organization. Moreover, we show that around 1990 the organization injected competitiveness into comparison by embracing ordinal modes of comparison revolving around the vertical ordering of things and people according to their relative positions on ranking scales. Yet, by analyzing the case of OECD statistics on teachers and in particular the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) program, we argue that the outcomes of the mechanism of ordinalization in the context of TALIS have thus far remained muted due to methodological constraints as well as the pluri-scalar politics involved.

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有序化和经合组织的教师治理

借鉴 Marion Fourcade 的有序化概念，我们开发了一种概念性比较语法，以解释经合组织治理能力的性质和结果随时间的变化。我们认为，自该组织成立以来，作为一种治理模式的比较作为推动政治自由主义的杠杆已经融入了 OECD 的 DNA。此外，我们表明，在 1990 年左右，该组织通过采用围绕事物和人的垂直排序的有序比较模式，根据他们在排名尺度上的相对位置，将竞争力注入到比较中。然而，通过分析经合组织关于教师的统计数据，特别是国际教学调查（TALIS）项目，