What is PISA?

PISA is the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment. PISA measures 15-year-olds’ ability to use their reading, mathematics and science knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges.

Launch of PISA 2025 Science Framework

PISA 2025 Science Framework

Do we teach young people the science skills that matter? And do young people leave school with the scientific understanding they need to make an informed decision about how to deal with environmental changes, health risks, and other challenges that require personal action from each of us? The OECD and 90 countries around the world have decided to work together to find out, as part of PISA 2025.

Oxford University Press and the OECD invited teachers, students and all others interested to an online event to launch the PISA 2025 Science Framework on 15 June 2023.
The event featured expert panel conversation, bringing together some of the experts behind the Framework and other leading figures in the science education community, to explore issues related to science and sustainability.

Watch the recording to learn more.

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Publications

Since 2000, PISA has involved more than

90

countries and economies

and around

3, 000, 000

students worldwide

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Next steps

OECD member countries and Associates decided to postpone the PISA 2021 assessment to 2022 and the PISA 2024 assessment to 2025 to reflect post-Covid difficulties.

PISA 2022

PISA 2022 will focus on mathematics, with an additional test of creative thinking. The new PISA 2022 mathematics framework was recently launched.

Preparations for this test are underway with participants from 38 OECD members and likely 50+ non-members involved.

PISA 2025

PISA 2025 will focus on science and include a new assessment of foreign languages. It will also include the innovative domain of Learning in the Digital World which aims to measure students’ ability to engage in self-regulated learning while using digital tools.

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PISA 2025 Foreign Language Assessment

PISA 2025 will assess foreign language learning as an optional component.

For more information, visit our dedicated website.