PISA from Australia's perspective

Authors

Jan Lokan, ACER

Publication Date

2002

Comments

In 'Providing world-class school education : research conference 2002 proceedings', pages 12-15. Melbourne : ACER

Abstract

This paper discusses the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey and the Australian teenagers that took part with students from thirty-one other countries. The paper describes the background to PISA, an initiative of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) keen to have measures of outputs from compulsory level schooling to accompany regularly collected country-level data on educational context and investment in education of human and monetary resources. The author describes the goals and features of PISA, its scope, Australian representatives and, school and background factors.

Recommended Citation

Lokan, Jan, "PISA from Australia's perspective" (2002).
https://research.acer.edu.au/research_conference_2002/4