Yahoo

Asian nations dominate international assessment

Graphic shows scores for PISA test for U.S. and other nations; 3c x 4 inches; 146 mm x 101 mm; WASHINGTON (AP) -- Teens from Asian nations dominated a global exam given to 15-year-olds, while U.S.

From avoidance to evidence: Britain should take the financial literacy test

I would be a lawyer/accountant/doctor/engineer/etc but I just couldn’t be bothered to take the test.” We don’t believe them, ...
American Enterprise Institute

What the Latest Round of PISA Scores Shows about How the Pandemic Affected the Achievement Gap

This is the first in a series of two posts, the second of which can be found here. Released earlier this month, 2022 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores, which provide the most ...
The Hechinger Report

Top US students fare poorly in international PISA test scores, Shanghai tops the world, Finland slips

Conventional wisdom is that top U.S. students fare well compared to their peers across the globe. According to this line of reasoning, the US doesn’t make it on the list of the top 25 countries in ...
balkaninsight

PISA Test Begins in Serbia

The Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA testing started Tuesday in 170 schools in Serbia. In the next six weeks 6,500 students will be tested. PISA is a triennial worldwide test of 15 ...
New York Post

Teachers’ union boss blames math test slide on COVID — after fighting to keep remote learning

She finally did the math. The leader of the second-largest teachers’ union in the US linked the worldwide drop in math scores on a key international test to the COVID-19 pandemic — during which she ...
Los Angeles Times

Are America’s students falling behind the world?

The standardized tests known as the Program for International Student Assessment are considered so important that when the latest results were released last week, the U.S. Department of Education ...
The Financial Times

The race for Pisa test points is obscuring the key to successful education

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Every three years, the OECD tests the skills and knowledge of 15-year-olds around the world, using the results ...
Bangkok Post

Thailand threatens to quit Pisa test

Thailand may boycott the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) this August if the test organiser refuses to allow the Education Ministry to proof-read the translated examination ...
Christian Science Monitor

PISA test shows 'stagnation.' Is US education reform failing?

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
BBC

England and US will not take Pisa tests in tolerance

The first tests measuring cultural awareness and being able to spot fake news will be taken this year Schools in England and the United States will not be taking the new international Pisa test ...