ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the emergence of the idea of society in the 18th century. It focuses on the inscription of systems analysis in international assessments. The chapter explores how the principles of systems theory order and classify populational differences. The chapter explores the irony of the hope of democracy and equality that instantiates the certainty of the vision in the relation of assessment research and its models of change, described as 'road maps' and 'highways' to the future and its kinds of people and society. The anticipating the future is evident in the contemporary international assessments. The experimentalism is the collection of data and their correlations to explain results, then using the correlations to create models of changes that can anticipate better results. An anticipatory future is a calculated rationality that shapes and fashions as a historical yet is located in a particular historical configuration that this book seeks to make visible.
