Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) was a project formulated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) designed to find out whether the students can use the skills they have learnt at school and apply it to real life situations and problems on an international scale. This test assesses student’s core knowledge in subjects like reading, mathematics and science.
This assessment was devised to create ‘policy-oriented international indicators of the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students’ (ESDC 2014) and to measure how well prepared students are to participate within society. PISA was first conducted in 2000 in a cycle of every three years rotating between the domains on reading, mathematics and science in each rotation (IES n.a.) |
PISA was implemented to create better policies within education for better lives. The aim was to support the participating countries by using the survey results to enhance the countries’ teacher and student performances (OECD 2015)
‘PISA shows countries where they stand in relation to other countries and by themselves in how effectively they are educating their children’ (OECD 2015) from all backgrounds and similarities and differences from around the world.
‘PISA shows countries where they stand in relation to other countries and by themselves in how effectively they are educating their children’ (OECD 2015) from all backgrounds and similarities and differences from around the world.
This video is a detailed infographic of the reasons behind conducting this global assessment and some of PISA’s results (PISA – Measuring student success around the world 2011). Click play to find out!
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Have a look at this media release by Christopher Pyne MP discussing his dissatisfaction with the fact that Australia has declined after the most recent PISA survey (2013). Click below to access the full release.
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