Sverker Lindblad is Professor of Education and Special Education at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Daniel Pettersson is Associate Professor at the University of Gävle and Uppsala University, Sweden.

Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

1. Getting the Numbers Right: An Introduction, Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson, and Thomas S. Popkewitz

SECTION I Numbers: A History of a Style of Reasoning

2. Politics by the Numbers, Theodore M. Porter

3. On the Contest of Lists and Their Governing Capacities: How 'Tax Havens' Became 'Secrecy Jurisdictions', Hans Krause Hansen and Anne Vestergaard

4. Time, Drawing, Testing: The Making Up of the Developmental Child and the Measuring of the Nation's Development, Catarina S. Martins

5. And the World Has Finally Been Made to Measure, Barbara Czarniawska

SECTION II The Field of Making of Data: Problematics of Assessment

6. Producing the 'Right Kind of People': The OECD Education Indicators in the 1960s, Regula Bürgi and Daniel Tröhler

7. Standards: Normative, Interpretative, and Performative, Radhika Gorur

8. International Assessments and Its Expertise Fabricating Expert Knowledge for Policy, Luis Miguel Carvalho

9. The Implications of Understanding That PISA Is Simply Another Standardized Achievement Test, David C. Berliner

SECTION III Large-Scale Assessment as the Production of Numbers

10. PISA as a Social Media Event: Powering the 'Logics of Competition', Miguel A. Pereyra, Antonio Luzón, Mónica Torres, and Daniel Torres-Salinas

11. Who Governs the Numbers?: The Framing of Educational Knowledge by TIMSS Research, Christina Elde Mølstad and Daniel Pettersson

12. OECD as a Site of Coproduction: The European Education Governance and the New Politics of 'Policy Mobilization', Sotiria Grek

SECTION IV The Dissolution of the Science/Society Distinction

13. Statistics Reasoning, Governing Education and Making Differences as Kinds of People, Thomas S. Popkewitz and Sverker Lindblad

14. Anticipating the Future Society: The Cultural Inscription of Numbers and International Large-Scale Assessment, Thomas S. Popkewitz