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		      <description><![CDATA[PISA 2000: 43 countries participated in the assessment. Click here to view the complete list and obtain information on contacts, website, national report and more for each country. 
PISA 2003: 41 countries participated in the assessment. Click here for additional details and information.
PISA 2006: 57 countries participated in the assessment. Click here for additional details and information.
PISA 2009: 66 countries are participating in the assessment. Click here for additional details and information.]]></description>
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		      <pubDate>Tue Sep 22 19:36:58 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Equally prepared for life? How 15-year-old boys and girls perform in school]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[School students are still being held back by gender perceptions. In most countries, girls and boys now show similar results in PISA, but systematic assessment of gender differences shows that students are still being held back by their own gender-related perceptions.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue May 26 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Top of the Class - High Performers in Science in PISA 2006]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Which factors contribute to the successful performance of students in science?  "Top of the Class" provides some answers by exploring how the academic achievement of students relates to the characteristics of individual students, schools and education systems.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[PISA 2006 Data Analysis Manual: SAS and SPSS, Second Edition]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[This is an essential tool for researchers to understand the PISA databases and perform analyses in accordance with the complex methodologies used to collect and process the data.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Green at Fifteen? How 15-year-olds perform in environmental science and geoscience in PISA 2006]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Teenagers in OECD countries are mostly well aware of environmental issues but often know little about their causes, raising questions about how well societies will be equipped to tackle such challenges in the future, according to "Green at Fifteen"?.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[PISA 2006 Technical Report]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Learn about the methodology underlying the PISA 2006 survey. The "PISA 2006 Technical report" provides  a level of detail that allows researchers to understand and replicate its analyses.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[PISA Take the Test: Sample Questions from the OECD's PISA Assessments]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Try out the tests that the students who participated in PISA have taken. "PISA Take the Test" presents all the publicly available questions from the PISA surveys. Some of these questions were used in the PISA 2000, 2003 and 2006 surveys and others were used in developing and trying out the assessment.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[OECD’s PISA survey shows some countries making significant gains in learning outcomes]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[OECD’s latest PISA survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds shows that some countries have seen significant improvements in student performance since 2000.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Dec 04 10:00:00 CET 2007</pubDate>
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