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Program For International Student Assessment

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a global assessment that measures 15-year-old students' reading, mathematics, and science literacy every 3 years. In 2015, over 500,000 students from 72 countries participated. PISA aims to evaluate students' preparedness for adult life by assessing their ability to apply knowledge to real-world problems. It also examines factors influencing student performance like school resources and socioeconomic backgrounds. The computer-based tests take 2 hours and include multiple-choice and open-response questions. Results are reported on literacy scales describing skill levels and OECD country averages in each domain. PISA is unique in its policy focus on linking learning outcomes to student backgrounds and attitudes to identify high-perform

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Program For International Student Assessment

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a global assessment that measures 15-year-old students' reading, mathematics, and science literacy every 3 years. In 2015, over 500,000 students from 72 countries participated. PISA aims to evaluate students' preparedness for adult life by assessing their ability to apply knowledge to real-world problems. It also examines factors influencing student performance like school resources and socioeconomic backgrounds. The computer-based tests take 2 hours and include multiple-choice and open-response questions. Results are reported on literacy scales describing skill levels and OECD country averages in each domain. PISA is unique in its policy focus on linking learning outcomes to student backgrounds and attitudes to identify high-perform

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The Programme for international student assessment (PISA)

 This allows countries to compare outcomes of learning as students near the end of
compulsory schooling.
 PISA core assessments measure the performance of 15-year-old students in mathematics,
science, and reading literacy every 3 years. Coordinated by the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), PISA was first implemented in 2000
in 32 countries.
 In 2015, 72 countries and economies and around half-a-million students (representing 29
million 15-year-old students) participated in the PISA assessment.

PISA’S Goals
 PISA's goal is to assess students' preparation for the challenges of life as young adults.
PISA tries to answer several important questions related to education such as:
 How well are young adults prepared to meet the challenges of the future?
 Can they analyze, reason and communicate their ideas effectively?
 Will their skills enable them to adapt to rapid societal change?
 What influence does the quality of school resources have on student outcomes?
 What educational structures and practices maximize the opportunities of students from
disadvantaged backgrounds?
 How equitable is the provision of education within a country and across countries?

What is assessed?
 The PISA assessment focuses on young people’s ability to apply their knowledge and
skills to real life problems and situations.
 The term literacy is attached to the domains of
 science literacy
 reading literacy
 mathematics literacy
 In PISA 2015, collaborative problem solving and financial literacy were also assessed.

Test design and development (The Assessment)


 Computer-based tests were used, with assessments lasting a total of two hours for each
student.
 Test items were a mixture of multiple-choice questions and questions requiring students
to construct their own responses.
 Students also completed a student questionnaire about their family background, aspects
of their lives such as their motivation and engagement towards learning, and learning and
instruction in science, which took 35 minutes to complete.
 School principals completed a short web-based questionnaire that focused on information
about their schools, including resources, the school environment and the qualifications of
staff, including institutional structures and types, class size, classroom and school
climate, and science activities in class.
 Some of the PISA 2015 items were multiple-choice items, and others required students to
construct and write their own answers.

How are results reported?


 Each of the literacy proficiency scales (and subscales) contain descriptions of the skills
typically shown by students achieving at each level, as defined by international experts.
 Each literacy domain has a defined average score across OECD countries: 493 points for
scientific literacy; 493 points for reading literacy; and 490 points for mathematical
literacy.

What is unique about Pisa?


Pisa is different from other international assessments in its:
Policy orientation which links data on student learning outcomes with data on students’
backgrounds and attitudes towards learning, and on key factors that shape their learning, in and
outside of school, in order to highlight differences in performance and identify the characteristics
of students, schools and education systems that perform well.
Innovative concept of “literacy”, which refers to students’ capacity to apply knowledge and
skills in key subjects, and to analyze, reason and communicate effectively as they identify,
interpret and solve problems in a variety of situations.
Relevance to lifelong learning, as Pisa asks students to report on their motivation to learn, their
beliefs about themselves, and their learning strategies.
Breadth of coverage, which, in Pisa 2015, encompasses the 35 OECD countries and 37 partner
countries and economies.

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