Programme for International Student Assessment.
PISA
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.
- Provisionally grouped under
- 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.
- 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
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