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Key Findings

 

OECD PISA

Mathematical Literacy

Reading Literacy

Scientific Literacy

Australian questions of interest

How did Indigenous students compare to Non-Indigenous students?

How did geographical location affect the performance of students?

How did immigrant status and language background affect the performance of students?

Further data

National and International data
PISA 2003 and PISA 2000 data can be downloaded from the PISA databases on the OECD website.

Australian Database
ACER operates the Australian PISA database, an interactive data selection facility that allows you to select up to four particular school-level and student-level questions and relate the resulting cells to student performance in a multi-dimensional table. See Australian database for further information.

Latest News

May 2012: Preparing Australian Students for the Digital World
Results from the PISA 2009 Digital Reading Literacy Assessment

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. 
View report


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