PISA (Programme for International Assessment) is an important international research programme in education

About 80 of the 193 countries take part in this study. Students have been randomly selected to be part of this study based on the year they were born and will either be in our current Year 11 or 12 cohort in 2021.

PISA assesses how well students have learnt the most essential skills, knowledge, and attitudes for success as they near the end of compulsory schooling. It is designed by international experts in education research to provide high quality information for government ministers and policy makers and education leaders, to improve education.

If your child has been selected to complete in this test on the 15th of June, she will have received a letter stating which class she will need to go to in order to complete the test. This is not an optional request but if you can remind them that it is not a test to revise for or get stressed out about. It is not a mark we record as a school, the results are not used in a way that identifies the students in any way and they will remain confidential. It can be used to inform the Ministry of Education about our national priorities.

The only thing that the students will need to prepare will be a question about their parent’s jobs and what the highest qualification that they (the student) has completed so far.

If you want to know more watch the 3 minute video - https://youtu.be/i4RGqzaNEtg

Sample test questions can be found at https://www.oecd.org/pisa/test/