PISA 2012 Results: Creative Problem Solving: Students’ skills in tackling real-life problems (Volume V)

PISA 2012 Results: Creative Problem Solving: Students’ skills in tackling real-life problems (Volume V) examines the extent to which 15-year-olds have acquired the problem-solving skills needed in the 21st century.

Also Available

• PISA 2012 Results: What Students Know and Can do : Student Performance in Mathematics, Reading and Science (Volume I) [Revised edition February 2014]
• PISA 2012 Results: What Makes Schools Successful? Resources, Policies and Practices (Volume IV)

PISA 2012 Results:What Makes Schools Successful? Resources, Policies and Practices (Volume IV)

This fourth volume of PISA 2012 results examines how student performance is associated with various characteristics of individual schools and school systems.

PISA 2012 Results:Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education - Lessons from PISA 2012 for the United States

This report compares the performance of 15-year-olds in the United States in PISA against the global patterns and trends.

PISA 2012 Results: What Students Know and Can Do: Student Performance in Mathematics, Reading and Science (Volume I)

This first volume of PISA 2012 results summarises the performance of students in mathematics, reading, and science in PISA 2012.

PISA 2012 Results: Excellence through Equity: Giving Every Student the Chance to Succeed (Volume II)

This second volume of PISA 2012 results defines and measures equity in education and analyses how equity in education has evolved across countries between PISA 2003 and 2012.

PISA 2012 Results: Ready to Learn: Student Engagement, Attitudes and Motivation (Volume III)

This third volume of PISA 2012 results explores students’ engagement with and at school, their drive and motivation to succeed, and the beliefs they hold about themselves as mathematics learners.

Education Indicators in Focus No. 17 - Does upper secondary vocational education and training improve the prospects of young adults?

One-third of the population of OECD countries hold an upper secondary vocational education and training (VET) qualification as their highest educational attainment, and it is estimated that nearly half will graduate from a VET programme in their lifetime.

How Boosting Adult Educational Skills Can Grow the Middle Class.

This event will be livestreamed at 1 pm EST on November 12. A new Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report will provide a strong and clear call to United States policymakers to protect America's global standing through investments in education because basic skill levels are linked with employability in the global economy.

Time for the U.S. to Reskill?

This blog post introduces a new report on the state of adult skills in the United States, "Time for the U.S. to Reskill: What the Survey of Adult Skills Says".

Concerted Action Necessary to Address U.S. Adult Skills Challenge, says OECD

An OECD study published today says the United States should take concerted action to address the adult skills challenge, warning it could progressively fall behind other countries. The study argues that low-skilled populations face a bleak future, creating challenges both to equity and social cohesion.