This first volume of PISA 2012 results summarises the performance of students in PISA 2012. It describes how … performance is defined, measured and reported, and then provides results from the assessment, showing what students are able to do … in mathematics. After a summary of mathematics performance, it examines the ways in which this performance varies on …

will also learn how students reacted to the electronic questionnaire and how it compared with pencil-and-paper tests. In … general, there were no group differences across test methods buts students enjoyed the computer-based test more than the paper …

countries, the 20% of students who are most exposed to pure mathematics tasks (equations) score, on the PISA mathematics test …-economically advantaged and disadvantaged students can be attributed to differences in familiarity with mathematics. In Austria and Korea … mathematics. In other words, there are clear indications that disadvantaged students systematically receive mathematics …

Most students enjoy orderly classrooms for their language-of-instruction lessons. Socio-economically disadvantaged … students are less likely to enjoy orderly classrooms than advantaged students. Orderly classrooms – regardless of the school …

Data on computer use and performance in reading and mathematics are shown in these tables. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/888933277907 …

Students includes enrolment and graduation rates, number of students and international student mobility at different …

component on the assessment of students’ attitudes to science and the frameworks for the assessment of reading and mathematics …. Within each domain, the framework defines the content that students need to acquire, the processes that need to be performed …

interpret mathematics in a variety of contexts to describe, predict and explain phenomena, recognising the role that mathematics … plays in the world. The mean score is the measure. A mathematically literate student recognises the role that mathematics …

to assess how well students read, navigate and understand electronic texts. Additionally, this publication provides the … to gather information from students, schools and parents on students’ home backgrounds, students’ approaches to learning …