The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines not just what students know in science, reading … other countries. PISA 2015 Results (Volume IV): Students’ Financial Literacy, is one of five volumes that present the … results of the PISA 2015 survey, the sixth round of the triennial assessment. It explores students’ experience with and …

Are students well prepared to meet the challenges of the future? Can they analyse, reason and communicate their ideas … are evaluated: problem solving and financial literacy. Students respond to a background questionnaire and, as an option … the parents through a third optional questionnaire. Sixty-six countries and economies, including all 34 OECD member …

children of immigrants. Who are the children of immigrants? What do they know and what can they do? How do they differ from … other students? Do they approach school and learning in a different way? It examines more closely the issue of assessment … language proficiency among immigrant students and its possible impact on cognitive outcomes in PISA. It explores the effect of …

The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines not just what students know in mathematics … and science of students in PISA 2012. …

Some 65% of socio-economically advantaged students reported that they know well or have often heard of the concept of … quadratic function, on average across OECD countries; but only 43% of disadvantaged students so reported. On average across OECD … countries, the 20% of students who are most exposed to pure mathematics tasks (equations) score, on the PISA mathematics test …

Immigrant students often have to overcome multiple barriers at once in order to succeed at school. Across most OECD … countries, poor performance among immigrant students relative to other students is strongly related to social disadvantage at … school, as reflected in the proportion of students whose mothers have low levels of education. The concentration, in a school …

Immigrant students who share a common country of origin, and therefore many cultural similarities, perform very … differently across school systems. The difference in performance between immigrant students and non-immigrant students of similar … socio-economic status is smaller in school systems with large immigrant populations and where immigrant students are as …