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Overview

The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international assessment that measures 15-year-old students' reading, mathematics, and science literacy. PISA also includes measures of general or cross-curricular competencies, such as problem solving. PISA emphasizes functional skills that students have acquired as they near the end of compulsory schooling.
PISA is coordinated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental organization of industrialized countries and is conducted in the United States by NCES. PISA was first administered in 2000 and is conducted every three years. The most recent assessment was in 2012.
PISA 2012 focuses on mathematics literacy and also assesses reading and science literacy. PISA 2012 also includes computer-based assessments in mathematics literacy, reading literacy, and general problem solving, and an assessment of students' financial literacy. PISA 2012 results will be released on December 3, 2013.
More information about PISA and resources, including the OECD’s PISA reports, PISA assessment frameworks, and international data files, are available at the OECD’s website.

You can explore the PISA data directly through NCES's online data tool — the International Data Explorer (IDE)

News and Highlights

• Explore and analyze data from all PISA cycles including the recently uploaded data from PISA 2000 and 2003. The PISA IDE can be accessed here
• Browse two recent Snapshots From the International Data Explorer looking the performance of High-performing U.S. Students and Low-performing U.S. students relative to International Peers using data from PIRLS 2006, TIMSS 2007, and PISA 2009
• Download PISA data in ready-made tables at the Table Library
• Find out about U.S. student performance on PISA 2009 in the U.S. national report, Highlights From PISA 2009: Performance of U.S. 15-Year-Old Students in Reading, Mathematics, and Science Literacy in an International Context

Data Snapshots

PISA (International) 2009 Assessment
15-year-olds mathematics literacy: 2009
U.S. average score: 487
OECD average score: 496
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