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Download PISA FAQ for answers to questions below:

  • What is PISA?
  • Why do we need to do international assessment?
  • Why this age group?
  • What is PISA trying to find out?
  • What does PISA assess?
  • What types of information are collected for PISA?
  • How are the assessment instruments developed?
  • How is the sample of students from each country chosen?
  • Why does it matter whether we participate or not?
  • So how many students and schools end up participating in PISA?
  • Why can't we replace students who are absent with others?
  • Why should students put any effort into PISA?
  • How is PISA administered and implemented?
  • What happens with the data once testing has been completed?

Latest News

7 Dec 2010: National PISA 2009 Report was released

Focusing on Reading literacy as the major domain for the PISA 2009 assessment, the national report will examine Australian students' achievement in reading, mathematical and scientific literacy.  Results will be reported for the states, by gender, for Indigenous students, by location, language background and by socioeconomic background. 


Challenges for Australian Education: Results from PISA 2009


Highlights from the full Australian Report: Challenges for Australian Education: Results from PISA 2009

May 2010:  The second thematic report from PISA 2006, which examines how various aspects of Indigenous students' background and psychological constructs relate to each other and to their performance in reading, mathematics and science, was released. 
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