Programme for International Student Assessment.

PISA

What it measures

Reading, mathematical and scientific literacy of 15-year-olds, plus a rotating innovative domain (collaborative problem solving 2015, global competence 2018, creative thinking 2022, learning in the digital world 2025) and extensive student, school, teacher and parent context questionnaires.

Length and format

Rotated item pool of several hundred cognitive items per cycle in a balanced-incomplete-block design (2 hours per student); context questionnaires approx 35-60 minutes. multiple-choice, constructed-response and computer-interactive cognitive items; Likert and categorical questionnaire items (performance/ability test plus self-report questionnaire context instruments)

Language versions

Fielded in 90+ languages under a double-translation and reconciliation protocol with formal national adaptation review.

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

mixed

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Reference

OECD (2023). PISA 2022 Results (Volume I): The State of Learning and Equity in Education. OECD Publishing, Paris. https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/pisa.html

https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/pisa.html