This report is the product of a collaborative effort between the countries and economies participating in PISA, the national and international experts and institutions working within the framework of the PISA Consortium, and the OECD Secretariat.
The development of this volume was guided by Andreas Schleicher, Lucia Dellangelo and Yuri Belfali, and managed by Miyako Ikeda. This volume was drafted by Miyako Ikeda (Chapters 1 and 5), Rodrigo Castaneda Valle (Chapters 2 and 3), Francesco Avvisati (Chapter 2), Nathan Viltard (Chapter 4) and Daniel Salinas (Chapters 4 and 5). Statistical analysis and database management were carried out by Guillaume Bousquet, Gwénaël Jacotin and Giannina Rech. Gracelyn Lee, Mara Merca, Naoko Sato, Soumaya Maghnouj, Selin Duran, Francesca Gottschalk, Claire Shewbridge, Alfonso Echazarra, Hélène Guillou and Jonathan Osborne provided valuable inputs. The volume was edited by Cassandra Morley. Rodrigo Castaneda Valle led the development of system-level indicators with support from Yelitza Castillo and Mara Merca. Sophie Limoges co‑ordinated the production of the report and Della Shin designed the report and prepared dissemination materials. Duncan Crawford, Chi Sum Tse, Anna Wahlgren, Kevin Gillespie and Chris Moore led the communications activities related to the report. Administrative support was provided by Sarah Christofides and Thomas Marwood. This volume also benefitted from the input and expertise of many more OECD staff members who worked on PISA 2025 at various stages of the project. Their names are listed in Annex E of this volume.
To support the technical implementation of PISA, the OECD contracted an international consortium of institutions and experts, led by Goran Lazendic at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). Overall co-ordination of the PISA 2025 assessment, including instrument development, scaling and analysis, and all data products, was managed by ACER. Key subcontractors for ACER included Open Assessment Technologies, with a team led by Hans-Otto Sterling, which was responsible for the PISA 2025 platform; cApStAn, led by Steve Dept, which provided linguistic quality control; and HallStat SRL, led by Beatrice Halleux, which served as the translation referee. The development of the science cognitive assessment framework was carried out by Oxford University Press, led by Dave Leach. Sampling and weighting services were provided by Westat, led by Jill DeMatteis, Erin Wiley and Wendy Van de Kerckhove.
The science framework was developed by the 2025 Science Expert Group (SEG), chaired by Jonathan Osborne (Stanford University, United States), with the following members: Doris Jorde (University of Oslo, Norway), Joe Krajcik (Michigan State University, United States), Yew Jin Lee (National Institute of Education, Singapore), Knut Neuman (Leibniz-Institute for Maths & Science Education, Germany), Nascira Ramia (Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador), Russell Tytler (Deakin University, Australia) and Young Shin Park (Chosun University, South Korea). The Environmental Sciences Expert Group was chaired by Peta White (Deakin University, Australia), with the following members: Nicole Ardoin (Stanford University, United States), Chris Eames (University of Waikato, New Zealand) and Martha Monroe (University of Florida, United States). Dave Leach (Oxford University Press) was Project Director on the development of the framework. The work of the PISA 2025 SEG builds on previous versions of the PISA Science Framework.
The Learning in the Digital World (LDW) Framework was developed by Natalie Foster, Emma Linsenmayer and Mario Piacentini of the OECD Secretariat, under the guidance of the Learning in the Digital World Expert Group (LDWEG). The LDWEG included Gautam Biswas (Vanderbilt University, United States), Engin Bumbacher (University of Teacher Education, Vaud, Switzerland), Frank Goldhammer (Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF), Germany), Sanna Järvelä (University of Oulu, Finland), Samuel Greiff (formerly University of Luxembourg, now Technical University of Munich, Germany), Ido Roll (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) and Chris Piech (Stanford University, United States). The framework also benefitted from the contributions of several researchers involved in the wider development of the LDW instrumentation, including Katarzyna Bobrowicz (University of Luxembourg), Richard Davis (formerly Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, now KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Nicole (Hutchins) Meijer (Accingo, United States), Leonard Tetzlaff and Lothar Persic-Beck (Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF), Germany) Anke Maria Weber (University of Luxembourg) and Megan Welsh (University of California Davis, United States). Elisabeth McClure and Bo Stjerne Thomson (LEGO Foundation) also reviewed and provided comments on an early version of the framework.
The framework for the PISA 2025 questionnaires was developed by Daniel Salinas and Miyako Ikeda of the OECD PISA Secretariat, with guidance and input from various experts. The questionnaire expert group was chaired by Therese Hopfenbeck (Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Australia). This group included Jonas Bertling (formerly Education Testing Service, United States, and now ACER, Australia), David Kaplan (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States), Nordin Abd Razak, (Universiti Sains, Malaysia) and Nina Jude (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany). For certain content included in the questionnaires, the Secretariat consulted external experts including Elise Huillery, Alexandre Touw, Larry Suter, Mark Bray, Nutsa Kobakhidze, Carol Dweck, David S. Yeager and Mary C. Murphy.
The development of the report was steered by the PISA Governing Board, chaired by Michele Bruniges (Australia), with Akiko Ono (Japan), Manuel Fernando Palacios da Cunha e Melo (Brazil) and Carmen Tovar Sánchez (Spain) as Vice Chairs. Countries and economies provided feedback on earlier drafts; their help in improving this volume is gratefully acknowledged.
Annex E of this volume lists the members of the various PISA bodies, including Governing Board members and National Project Managers in participating countries and economies, the PISA Consortium and the individual experts and consultants who contributed to PISA 2025.