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The authors analyze the development and role of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as a ‘cultural product’. They argue the development of PISA is part of a broader transformation of equilibria within the field of knowledge and that the incorporation of PISA at the level of education policy fields transforms their form and shape in two ways: reinforcing a heteronomous understanding of education and extending and dissolving the boundaries of education policy fields.