Equally prepared for life? How 15-year-old boys and girls perform in school

26-May-2009

School students are still being held back by gender perceptions. In most countries, girls and boys now show similar results in PISA, but systematic assessment of gender differences shows that students are still being held back by their own gender-related perceptions.

Top of the Class - High Performers in Science in PISA 2006

28-Apr-2009

Which factors contribute to the successful performance of students in science?  "Top of the Class" provides some answers by exploring how the academic achievement of students relates to the characteristics of individual students, schools and education systems.

PISA 2006 Data Analysis Manual: SAS and SPSS, Second Edition

22-Apr-2009

This is an essential tool for researchers to understand the PISA databases and perform analyses in accordance with the complex methodologies used to collect and process the data.

Green at Fifteen? How 15-year-olds perform in environmental science and geoscience in PISA 2006

31-Mar-2009

Teenagers in OECD countries are mostly well aware of environmental issues but often know little about their causes, raising questions about how well societies will be equipped to tackle such challenges in the future, according to "Green at Fifteen"?.

PISA 2006 Technical Report

22-Jan-2009

Learn about the methodology underlying the PISA 2006 survey. The "PISA 2006 Technical report" provides  a level of detail that allows researchers to understand and replicate its analyses.

PISA Take the Test: Sample Questions from the OECD's PISA Assessments

07-Jan-2009

Try out the tests that the students who participated in PISA have taken. "PISA Take the Test" presents all the publicly available questions from the PISA surveys. Some of these questions were used in the PISA 2000, 2003 and 2006 surveys and others were used in developing and trying out the assessment.

PISA 2006 results

04-Dec-2007

Learn about the most comprehensive international picture of science learning today. For all data and a comprehensive analysis click here.

PISA brochure

23-Feb-2007

This brochure on the OECD's Programme for International Students Assessment describes what the programme has achieved so far and sets out plans for the project up until 2015.

Brochure PISA

05-Mar-2007

Cette nouvelle brochure du Programme International pour le Suivi des Acquis des élèves (PISA) offre un aperçu des réalisations du programme et présente les travaux prévus jusque 2015.

PISA Broschüre

Diese Broschüre über die Internationale Schulleistungsstudie (PISA-Studie) der OECD  beschreibt die bisherigen Ergebnisse des Programmes und legt die Projektpläne bis 2015 dar.

"1001 façons d'apprendre" … de par le monde

08-Aug-2007

Invité de la semaine dans l'émission "1001 façons d'apprendre" de France Info, Eric Charbonnier, expert à la direction Education de l'OCDE, commente les performances en matière d'éducation des différents pays participant au programme d'évaluation PISA. (Available in French only.)

PISA 2003 country profiles

21-Dec-2006

The PISA 2003 country profiles tool allows the user to obtain information for a country or set of countries on the performance of 15-year-olds (in mathematics, science, reading and problem solving), their family background and approaches to learning, as well as the way their schools are managed.

Assessing Scientific, Reading and Mathematical Literacy: A Framework for PISA 2006

28-Sep-2006

This publication presents the conceptual framework underlying the Programme for International Student Assessment's (PISA) 2006 survey. It includes a re-developed and expanded framework for scientific literacy, an innovative component on the assessment of students' attitudes to science and the frameworks for the assessment of reading and mathematics. Within each domain, the framework defines the content that students need to acquire, the processes that need to be performed, and the contexts in which knowledge and skills are applied. Sample tasks are also provided.