Measuring student knowledge and skills

Measuring
Student Knowledge
and Skills
Measuring
Student Knowledge
and Skills
A New Framework
for Assessment
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The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 
PISA is a collaborative process, bringing together scientific expertise from the
participating countries and steered jointly by their governments on the basis of
shared, policy-driven interests. Key characteristics of PISA make it an
unprecedented effort to measure students literacy:
– A long-term commitment: spanning over the decade to come, it will enable
countries to monitor continously their progress. Future volumes in this series
will focus on the tests themselves, the results of which will be published and 
updated every three years. 
– The age-group covered: the 15-year-olds. Assessing young people near the end
of their compulsory schooling provides a significant indication of educational
systems performances.
– The literacy approach: knowledge, skills and competencies are not tested in 
terms of school curricula but rather in terms of what is likely to equip young
people for life. 
– A worldwide coverage: 32 countries including 28 OECD countries and Brazil,
China, Latvia and the Russian Federation. 

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MEASURING STUDENT 
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
A New Framework for Assessment
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT

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