is possible, and provides students, parents, policy makers and other education stakeholders insights into what enables …Many socio-economically disadvantaged students excel in PISA. Students who succeed at school despite a disadvantaged … background -- resilient students -- are the focus of Against the Odds. The report shows that overcoming barriers to achievement …

This sixth volume of PISA 2012 results examines 15-year-old students’ performance in financial literacy in the 18 … to students’ and their families’ background and to students’ mathematics and reading skills. The volume also explores … students’ access to money and their experience with financial matters. In addition, it provides an overview of the current …

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 …

. Tests are typically administered to between 4 500 and 10 000 students in each country. PISA assesses how far students near …

countries have been able to bring previously out-of-school children into the education system and improve performance at the …

from the 2012 data collection (PISA 2012) focuses on mathematics and compares the competencies of students in 65 countries … and economies. Around 510 000 students between the ages of 15 years 3 months and 16 years 2 months participated in PISA … because they are obtained from samples of students, rather than from a census of all students, and they are obtained using a …