Programme for International Student Assessment
Welcome to the National PISA website
PISA is an assessment of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds and looks for answers to several important questions related to education, such as ...
- How well are young adults prepared to meet the challenges of the future?
- What skills do young adults have that will help them adapt to change in their lives? Are they able to analyse, reason and communicate their argument and ideas to others?
For example, are they able to perform currency conversions? read tables and graphs in newspapers? use basic understandings of science to make sense of magazine articles about topics such as genetically modified foods and animal cloning? - Are some ways of organising schools and school learning more effective than others?
- What influence does the quality of school resources have on student outcomes?
- What educational structures and practices maximise the opportunities of students from disadvantaged backgrounds?
- To what extent is student performance dependent on their background? How equitable is education provision for students from all backgrounds?
What's new?
The PISA 2006 National report has just been released to coincide with the public release of the international results.
For more information about the PISA 2006 release go to the PISA News section of ACER website.
For more information go to the Reports section of the National PISA website.