The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) — the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) global standardized test of student achievement — is frequently used by ...

When the results for an international benchmarking test dubbed the "World Cup for Education" were announced on Dec 6, Singapore's 15-year-olds took gold in all three categories - reading, mathematics ...

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) implemented by the OECD has been controversial since the publication of its first results in 2000. Measuring the mathematics, science and ...

This global assessment measures how well 15-year-olds do when solving real-world problems in math, reading, and science. Says Ed Secretary Duncan: The results must serve as a "wake-up call." The ...

The OECD’s assessment of student performance across the world is certain to provoke debate. But its methodology has come under just as much scrutiny as the results themselves The Programme for ...

In both your news report (UK schools failing to climb global league table, December 7) and your editorial (Slicing up the Pisa results) you make the mistake, common throughout the media and across ...

The topics have been identified by the core committee formed by the education department CHANDIGARH: In order to prepare students for Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the UT ...

Rajnish Kumar, director of the MHRD, who was in the city for a meeting, on Monday shared that with every passing year, the CBSE was going to increase the percentage of questions asked as per the ...