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The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA ) is an internationally standardised assessment that was jointly developed by participating countries and administered to 15-year-olds in schools. PISA assesses how far students near the end of compulsory education have acquired some of the knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in society. In all cycles, the domains of reading, mathematical and scientific literacy are covered not merely in terms of mastery of the school curriculum, but in terms of important knowledge and skills needed in adult life.
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23-May-2012
by Andreas Schleicher - Deputy Director for Education and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD's Secretary General
Hong Kong is perhaps the PISA top-performer about which I knew the least. So, on the invitation of the authorities, I took a few days of annual leave to learn more about this system. What interested me most was to find out how Hong Kong, with its market-driven approach in virtually every field of public service, had been able to combine high levels of student performance with a high degree of social equity in the distribution of educational opportunities.
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16-May-2012
This report using PISA 2009 data, examines the performance of immigrant students in PISA and provides an in-depth look at factors such as language and socio-economic disadvantage, that can hinder full integration of immigrant students into their host societies.
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15-May-2012
Thanks largely to the OECD’s work in compiling internationally comparable data on education, the issue of teachers’ pay has quietly crept up the political agenda in more than a few countries (take the recent French presidential election and the current US presidential campaign, to name just two). PISA takes the discussion a step further. It asks: does basing teachers’ pay on their effectiveness as teachers help to improve an education system’s overall performance.
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15-May-2012
'PISA in Focus 16' discusses the relationship between performance-based pay in the teaching profession and student performance in PISA.
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11-May-2012
Education begins at home. The first word a parent speaks to an infant opens the world of language to the child and sets the child on the path of exploration and discovery. When formal schooling begins, many parents believe that their role as educators has ended. But education is a shared responsibility of parents, schools, teachers, and various institutions in the economy and in society. New findings from the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) show that parental involvement in education is pivotal for the success of children throughout their school years and beyond.
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09-May-2012
By Sean Coughlan, BBC News education correspondent - 8 May 2012
China's results in international education tests - which have never been published - are "remarkable", says Andreas Schleicher, responsible for the highly-influential Pisa tests. The findings indicate that China has an education system that is overtaking many Western countries. While there has been intense interest in China's economic and political development, this provides the most significant insight into how it is teaching the next generation.
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19-Apr-2012
Anger over an oil spill off the coast of California prompted a US senator to call for a day-long national “teach-in” to raise awareness about the environment. For this 42nd Earth Day, we wanted to find out how “green” today’s students are and where most of their information about the environment comes from. According to the latest issue of PISA in Focus, students who have high levels of environmental literacy are still the minority; but all students get most of their information about environmental issues at school.
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16-Apr-2012
Several months ago, we described how PISA results show that, when it comes to the question of private versus public schooling, it’s the students who make the school. Both private schools and public schools with student populations from socio-economically advantaged backgrounds benefit the individual students who attend them. But PISA results also showed that there is no evidence to suggest that the proportion of private schools in a country, in and of itself, is associated with higher performance of the school system as a whole.
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13-Apr-2012
According to US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Andreas Schleicher “understands the global issues and challenges [of education] as well as or better than anyone I have ever met.” And Schleicher is using this knowledge, based on global testing data, to galvanize change. An outspoken critic of government policies that don’t prioritize education, Schleicher has been influential in translating hard data into real-world guidance for policy-makers struggling to prepare students for the demands of the 21st century.
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12-Apr-2012
'Public and Private Schools' examines the socio-economic profiles of the public and privately managed schools that participated in the PISA 2009 survey.
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from 14-Mar-2012 to 15-Mar-2012
The U.S. Department of Education, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Education International (EI), the global federation of teacher unions, will again join U.S.-based education partners—the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Asia Society, the Council of Chief State School Officers(CCSSO), the National Education Association (NEA), and public broadcaster WNET—to hold the second International Summit on the Teaching Profession: Preparing Teachers and Developing School Leaders.
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05-Mar-2012
'PISA in Focus 14' compares the career expectations of the 15-year-old girls and boys who participated in PISA.
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21-Feb-2012
Finnish students have earned top marks from the OECD’s landmark PISA study, which tests the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students in more than 70 countries. Participants at the OECD conference entitled “A Recipe for Success: Transforming Learning Environments through Dynamic Local Partnerships " taking place in Finland from 22-24 February, will be able to observe, experiment, and learn first-hand some of the many approaches to effective learning environments used in Finnish schools.
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19-Jan-2012
'PISA in Focus N°12' compares the performance of 15-year-old girls and boys in digital reading tests.
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16-Dec-2011
Ten additional economies participated in the PISA 2009 assessment in 2010. Consult the full report released by ACER here (13MB)
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09-Jul-2011
'PISA in Focus' 6 examines the impact of grade repetition on education systems throughout the world.
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28-Jun-2011
Korea tops a new OECD PISA survey that tests how 15-year olds use computers and the Internet to learn. The next best performers were New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Hong-Kong China and Iceland.
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14-Jun-2011
Some students from disadvantaged backgrounds are high performers in PISA despite the odds being stacked against them. This 5th edition of PISA in Focus examines these students' profiles and explains possible reasons why these students do well.
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20-May-2011
'PISA in Focus' N°4 examines the relationship between performance of 15-year-olds in PISA and the disciplinary climate in class.
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08-Apr-2011
PISA 2009 at a Glance is a companion publication to PISA 2009 Results, the six-volume report on the 2009 survey conducted by the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
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08-Jul-2011
Presentations are now available on line from this seminar which brought together high-level policymakers, administrators, researchers and educators to examine the design and implementation of educational reform in countries with consistently strong student learning performance or rapid improvement in PISA.
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19-May-2011
Mexico has participated in every cycle of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) since 2000. Inspired by PISA 2009 results and in the context of the cooperation agreement with Mexico, a video series entitled "Improving Education in Mexico" has been developed. The series consists of five short video segments (5 to 6 minutes), available in English and Spanish.
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04-Apr-2011
Download the presentation "Building a High-Quality Teaching Profession - Lessons from around the world"
Watch a replay of the webcast of the closing session of the International Summit on the Teaching Profession.
Download the background report - Building a High-Quality Teaching Profession: Lessons from around the world
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Consumer protection: OECD PISA Financial Literacy Study
24-Mar-2011
22/02/2011 - The OECD is testing 15 year-olds on their knowledge of personal finances and ability to apply it to their financial problems. This is the first large-scale international study to assess the financial literacy of young people. The results will be available in the next PISA study, to be released in 2013.
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19-Mar-2011
17-Mar-2011
Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
As fundamental technological and demographic challenges re-shape our economies, the quality of teaching, which is the biggest in-school influence on student learning, is the yardstick for long-term growth, said OECD Secretary-General.
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25-Jan-2010
This report uses recent economic modelling to relate cognitive skills – as measured by PISA and other international instruments – to economic growth, demonstrating that relatively small improvements to labour force skills can largely impact the future well-being of a nation.
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04-Dec-2009
This report provides and in-depth examination of 15-year old students’ mathematical literacy using the results of the second survey of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA 2003.
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26-May-2009
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.
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28-Apr-2009
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.
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31-Mar-2009
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 a new OECD publication.
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07-Jan-2009
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.
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22-Jan-2009
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.
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04-Dec-2007
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.
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21-Dec-2006
The PISA 2003 country profiles tool allows the user to obtain information for a country or set of countries on the performance of 15-year-olds (in mathematics, science, reading and problem solving), their family background and approaches to learning, as well as the way their schools are managed.
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Focus
Learning beyond Fifteen focuses on the development of reading proficiency between the ages of 15 and 24 using the results of a Canadian study that combines PISA data with a follow-up survey, the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS)
Learning Beyond Fifteen - 10 years after PISA
Focus
PISA 2009 Results presents the findings from the most recent PISA survey, which focused on reading and also assessed mathematics and science performance.
PISA 2009 Results
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A video series profiling policies and practices of education systems that demonstrate high or improving performance in the PISA tests
PISA - Measuring student success around the world
PISA - midiendo el éxito escolar en el mundo
