The document provides information about the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which assesses the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students around the world. PISA tests students in reading, mathematics, and science every 3 years and surveys students, parents, teachers, and school leaders. It aims to evaluate education systems worldwide and see how well they prepare students for adulthood. The document outlines PISA's methodology, subject areas tested over time, sample questions, and results showing performance differences between countries and genders. It also discusses factors like resources, equity, and resilience that relate to student achievement levels.
2. 2 PISA in brief
• Over half a million students…
– representing 28 million 15-year-olds in 65 countries/economies
… took an internationally agreed 2-hour test…
– Goes beyond testing whether students can
reproduce what they were taught…
… to assess students’ capacity to extrapolate from what they know
and creatively apply their knowledge in novel situations
– Mathematics, reading, science, problem-solving, financial literacy
– Total of 390 minutes of assessment material
… and responded to questions on…
– their personal background, their schools
and their engagement with learning and school
• Parents, principals and system leaders provided data on…
– school policies, practices, resources and institutional factors that
help explain performance differences .
3. 3 PISA in brief
• A shared learning tool for all involved
– ‘Crowd sourcing’ and collaboration
• PISA draws together leading expertise and institutions from participating
countries to develop instruments and methodologies…
… guided by governments on the basis of shared policy interests
– Cross-national relevance and transferability of policy experiences
• Emphasis on validity across cultures, languages and systems
• Frameworks built on well-structured conceptual understanding
of academic disciplines and contextual factors
– Triangulation across different stakeholder perspectives
• Systematic integration of insights from students, parents,
school principals and system-leaders
– Advanced methods with different grain sizes
• A range of methods to adequately measure constructs with different grain sizes
to serve different decision-making needs
• Productive feedback, at appropriate levels of detail, to fuel improvement at
every level of the system .
4. 4 The structure of the PISA assessment
2000 2003 2006 2009 2012 2015
Reading Reading Reading Reading Reading Reading
Mathemat
ics
Mathemati
cs
Mathemati
cs
Mathemat
ics
Mathematics Mathematics
Science Science Science Science Science Science
Problem
Solving
Digital
Reading
Problem Solving,
Financial
literacy, Digital
Math, Digital
reading
Collaborative
Problem Solving,
Financial
literacy,
5. • PISA 2012:
–Student and school questionnaires
• Options:
–ICT questionnaire
–Educational career questionnaire
–Parent questionnaire
5 Questionnaires
6. 6
Climbing Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji is a famous dormant volcano
in Japan.
Mount Fuji is only open to the public for
climbing from 1 July to 27 August each
year. About 200 000 people climb
Mount Fuji during this time.
On average, about how many people
climb Mount Fuji each day?
A. 340
B. 710
C. 3400
D. 7100
E. 7400
PISA 2012 Sample Question 1
7. 7
Percent of 15-year-olds who scored Level 2 or Above
Shanghai-China
Singapore
HongKong-China
Korea
Estonia
Macao-China
Japan
Finland
Switzerland
ChineseTaipei
Canada
Liechtenstein
Vietnam
Poland
Netherlands
Denmark
Ireland
Germany
Austria
Belgium
Australia
Latvia
Slovenia
CzechRepublic
Iceland
UnitedKingdom
Norway
France
NewZealand
OECDaverage
Spain
RussianFederation
Luxembourg
Italy
Portugal
UnitedStates
Lithuania
Sweden
SlovakRepublic
Hungary
Croatia
Israel
Greece
Serbia
Romania
Turkey
Cyprus*
Bulgaria
Kazakhstan
UnitedArabEmirates
Thailand
Chile
Malaysia
Mexico
Uruguay
Montenegro
CostaRica
Albania
Argentina
Brazil
Tunisia
Jordan
Qatar
Colombia
Peru
Indonesia
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
PISA 2012 Sample Question 1
8. 8
Revolving Door
A revolving door includes three wings which rotate within a circular-shaped space. The inside diameter of
this space is 2 metres (200 centimetres). The three door wings divide the space into three equal sectors.
The plan below shows the door wings in three different positions viewed from the top.
The two door openings (the dotted arcs in the diagram) are the same size.
If these openings are too wide the revolving wings cannot provide a sealed
space and air could then flow freely between the entrance and the exit,
causing unwanted heat loss or gain. This is shown in the diagram opposite.
What is the maximum arc length in centimetres (cm) that each door
opening can have, so that air never flows freely between the entrance and
the exit?
Maximum arc length: ____________ cm
PISA 2012 Sample Question 4
9. 9
Percent of 15-year-olds who scored Level 6 or Above
Shanghai-China
Singapore
ChineseTaipei
HongKong-China
Korea
Japan
Macao-China
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Belgium
Poland
Germany
NewZealand
Netherlands
Canada
Australia
Estonia
Finland
Vietnam
Slovenia
OECDaverage
Austria
CzechRepublic
France
SlovakRepublic
UnitedKingdom
Luxembourg
Iceland
UnitedStates
Israel
Ireland
Italy
Hungary
Portugal
Norway
Denmark
Croatia
Sweden
Latvia
RussianFederation
Lithuania
Spain
Turkey
Serbia
Bulgaria
Greece
Romania
UnitedArabEmirates
Thailand
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
PISA 2012 Sample Question 4
10. Singapore
Hong Kong-ChinaChinese Taipei
Korea
Macao-China
Japan Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Netherlands
Estonia Finland
Canada
Poland
Belgium
Germany Viet Nam
Austria Australia
IrelandSlovenia
DenmarkNew Zealand
Czech Republic France
United Kingdom
Iceland
LatviaLuxembourg Norway
Portugal ItalySpain
Russian Fed.Slovak Republic United States
LithuaniaSwedenHungary
Croatia
Israel
Greece
SerbiaTurkey
Romania
Bulgaria
U.A.E.
Kazakhstan
Thailand
Chile Malaysia
Mexico
410
420
430
440
450
460
470
480
490
500
510
520
530
540
550
560
570
580
Mean score
High mathematics performance
Low mathematics performance
… Shanghai-China performs above this line (613)
Montenegro, with 11 countries performing below
Average performance
of 15-year-olds in
Mathematics
Fig I.2.13
US
11. Change in performance between PISA 2003 and 2012
Indonesia
Thailand
Russian Fed.
United States
Latvia
Spain
Norway
Luxembourg
Ireland
Austria
Switzerland
Japan
Liechtenstein
Korea
Brazil
Tunisia
Mexico
Uruguay
Turkey
Greece
Italy
Portugal
Hungary
Poland
Slovak Republic
OECD average
Germany
Sweden
France
Denmark
Iceland
Czech Republic
New Zealand
Australia
Macao-China
Belgium
Canada
Netherlands
Finland
Hong Kong-China
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
350 400 450 500 550 600
Averageannualmathematicsscorechange
Average mathematics performance in PISA 2003
Montenegro
ImprovingperformanceDeterioratingperformance
PISA 2003 performance below the OECD average
PISA 2003 performance
above the OECD average
Fig I.2.18
11
12. Mathematics, reading and science Israel, Poland, Portugal, Turkey, Brazil, Dubai
(UAE), Hong Kong-China,
Macao-China, Qatar, Singapore, Tunisia
Mathematics and reading
Chile, Germany, Mexico, Albania, Montenegro,
Serbia, Shanghai-China
Mathematics and science
Italy, Kazakhstan, Romania
Reading and science
Japan, Korea, Latvia, Thailand
Mathematics only
Greece, Bulgaria, Malaysia,
United Arab Emirates (ex. Dubai)
Reading only Estonia, Hungary, Luxembourg, Switzerland,
Colombia, Indonesia, Liechtenstein, Peru,
Russian Federation, Chinese Taipei
Science only
Ireland
Of the 65 countries 45 improved at least in one subject12
17. Spending per student from the age of 6 to 15 and
mathematics performance in PISA 2012
Slovak Republic
Czech Republic
Estonia
Israel
Poland
Korea
Portugal
New Zealand
Canada
Germany
Spain
France
Italy
Singapore
Finland
Japan
SloveniaIreland
Iceland
Netherlands
Sweden
Belgium
UK
Australia
Denmark
United States
Austria
Norway
Switzerland
Luxembourg
Viet Nam
Jordan
Peru
Thailand
Malaysia
Uruguay
Turkey
Colombia
Tunisia
Mexico
Montenegro
Brazil
Bulgaria
Chile
Croatia
Lithuania
Latvia
Hungary
Shanghai-China
R² = 0.01
R² = 0.37
300
350
400
450
500
550
600
650
0 20 000 40 000 60 000 80 000 100 000 120 000 140 000 160 000 180 000 200 000
Mathematicsperformance(scorepoints)
Average spending per student from the age of 6 to 15 (USD, PPPs)
Cumulative expenditure per student less than USD 50 000
Cumulative expenditure per student USD 50 000 or more
Fig IV.1.8
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18. Hong Kong-China
Brazil
Uruguay
Croatia
Latvia
Chinese Taipei
Thailand
Bulgaria
Jordan
Macao-China
UAE
Argentina
Indonesia
Kazakhstan
Peru
Costa Rica
Montenegro
Tunisia
Qatar
Singapore
Colombia
Malaysia
Serbia
Romania
Viet Nam
Shanghai-China
USA
Poland
New Zealand
Greece
UK
Estonia
Finland
Slovak Rep.
Luxembourg
Germany
AustriaFrance
Japan
Turkey
Sweden Hungary
Australia
Israel
Canada
Ireland
Chile
Belgium
SpainDenmark
Switzerland
Iceland
Slovenia
Portugal
Norway
Mexico
Korea
Italy
R² = 0.19
300
350
400
450
500
550
600
650
700
-0.500.511.5
Mathematicsperformance(scorepoints)
Equity in resource allocation
(index points)
Countries with better performance in mathematics tend
to allocate educational resources more equitably
Greater
equity
Less
equity
Adjusted by per capita GDP
Fig IV.1.11
30% of the variation in math
performance across OECD countries is
explained by the degree of similarity of
educational resources between
advantaged and disadvantaged schools
OECD countries tend to allocate at least
an equal, if not a larger, number of
teachers per student to disadvantaged
schools; but disadvantaged schools tend
to have great difficulty in attracting
qualified teachers.
19. Video series on
Strong Performers and
Successful Reformers in
Education
http://www.pearsonfoundation.org/oecd
21. • Main subject: Science
• Number of participants : 72
• Field trials in 2014
• Main survey 2015
• Results released in December 2016
PISA 201521
22. • Engagement of all is important:
– Policy-makers
– Teachers and Schools
– Students and Parents
– Media
– Research community
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23. Thank you !
Find out more about PISA at www.pisa.oecd.org
• National and international publications
• The complete micro-level database
With acknowledgements to the PISA team
Email: richard.yelland@oecd.org
jenny.bradshaw@oecd.org