Programme for International Student Assessment
Scholastic performance study by the OECD
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| December 2023 | PISA releases the results of its 2022 data collection, providing updated comparative insights into international educational performance. |
| 2022 | India did not participate in PISA rounds, citing COVID-19 pandemic disruption. |
| 2022 | PISA assessment focused on Mathematics, involving 37 OECD countries and 44 partner countries. 690,000 students participated, marking the largest participation to date. |
| 2022 | Latest PISA study conducted, providing the most recent comparative data on educational performance in mathematics, science, and reading for participating countries. |
| December 5 2022 | PISA 2022 results were officially presented, featuring data from around 700,000 participating students across 81 countries and economies, with Singapore emerging as the top performer in all assessment categories. |
| 2020 | Swedish newspaper Expressen revealed that Sweden had inflated their PISA 2018 score by not testing a large number of foreign-born students, as confirmed by professor Magnus Henrekson. |
| 2020 | Planned PISA participation did not materialize, with India not taking part in the assessment. |
| 2019 | Approximately 5,000 of Britain's 16,000 primary schools adopt Shanghai's teaching methods, leading to improved performance in PISA. |
| 2018 | Chinese provinces of Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang participate in PISA testing. |
| 2018 | PISA assessment returned to Reading focus, expanding to 37 OECD countries and 42 partner countries. 600,000 students participated. |
| 2018 | PISA assessment continued, offering detailed insights into student performance and educational outcomes across international contexts. |
| 2018 | PISA adds global competence as a new innovative domain to its international student assessment program. |
| February 2017 | Ministry of Human Resource Development under Prakash Javadekar decided to end the PISA boycott and planned to participate from 2020, with OECD agreeing to update test questions to be more culturally relevant. |
| 2016 | Britain invites 120 Chinese teachers and plans to adopt Chinese teaching styles in 8,000 aided schools. |
| 2015 | Puerto Rico participates in PISA tests as a separate US entity for the first time. |
| 2015 | Chinese provinces of Jiangsu, Guangdong, Beijing, and Shanghai participate in PISA testing, scoring a median of 518 in science. |
| 2015 | PISA assessment centered on Science, with 34 OECD countries and 31 partner countries. 509,000 students participated. |
| 2015 | PISA study expanded further, collecting and analyzing educational performance data from an increasing number of participating countries and regions. |
| 2015 | PISA continues to assess collaborative problem solving as part of its innovative domains alongside traditional reading, mathematics, and science testing. |
| 2014 | Liz Truss leads a fact-finding visit to schools and teacher-training centres in Shanghai. Britain invites 60 teachers from Shanghai to help share teaching methods and support struggling pupils. |
| 2012 | Selected US states begin participating in PISA tests as separate entities, with results becoming available for individual states. |
| 2012 | Sweden's PISA test results dropped in all three subjects, with the sharpest fall in mathematics performance (from 509 in 2003 to 478), and reading performance declining from 516 in 2000 to 483. Opposition leader Stefan Löfven described the situation as a national crisis. |
| 2012 | India pulled out of PISA testing, citing unfairness of the test to Indian students and socio-cultural disconnects. |
| 2012 | Shanghai participates in PISA testing for the second time, topping rankings in all three subjects and improving scores compared to 2009 tests. Shanghai's mathematics score of 613 was 113 points above the average, demonstrating performance about 3 school years ahead of average countries. |
| 2012 | PISA assessment focused on Mathematics, involving 35 OECD countries and 37 partner countries. 510,000 students participated. |
| 2012 | PISA assessment conducted, providing comprehensive international educational performance data and rankings across different subject areas. |
| 2012 | PISA introduces collaborative problem solving as an additional innovative domain in its international student assessment framework. |
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