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ACER Update Australian national 2009 PISA report released Focusing on reading literacy as the major domain for the PISA 2009 assessment, the national report, PISA 2009: Challenges for Australian Education examines Australian students' achievement in reading, mathematical and scientific literacy. Results are reported for the states, by gender, for Indigenous students, by location, language background and by socioeconomic background. The full report, a summary report, PISA in Brief: Highlights from the PISA 2009 report, and detailed information about PISA in Australia can be found at the Australian PISA website. Korea and Finland top OECD’s latest PISA survey of education performance ACER released the Australian national PISA report on 7 December to coincide with the release of the International PISA report by the OECD in Paris. The OECD reported that Korea and Finland top the latest PISA survey of reading literacy among 15-year olds. Asia-Pacific economies made up six of the leading education systems, thanks to strong performances from Hong Kong-China, Singapore, New Zealand and Japan. Canada was the only other country outside Asia to score highly. Further international findings from PISA and the full international report can be downloaded from the OECD website « Back to eNews
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Australian national 2009 PISA report released

Focusing on reading literacy as the major domain for the PISA 2009 assessment, the national report, PISA 2009: Challenges for Australian Education examines Australian students' achievement in reading, mathematical and scientific literacy. Results are reported for the states, by gender, for Indigenous students, by location, language background and by socioeconomic background. The full report, a summary report, PISA in Brief: Highlights from the PISA 2009 report, and detailed information about PISA in Australia can be found at the Australian PISA website.

Korea and Finland top OECD’s latest PISA survey of education performance

ACER released the Australian national PISA report on 7 December to coincide with the release of the International PISA report by the OECD in Paris. The OECD reported that Korea and Finland top the latest PISA survey of reading literacy among 15-year olds. Asia-Pacific economies made up six of the leading education systems, thanks to strong performances from Hong Kong-China, Singapore, New Zealand and Japan. Canada was the only other country outside Asia to score highly. Further international findings from PISA and the full international report can be downloaded from the OECD website

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