Measuring student knowledge and skills

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The PISA assessment frameworks were developed by expert panels under the direction of
Raymond Adams from the ACER. The reading expert panel was chaired by Dr. Irwin Kirsch of Educational
Testing Service, the mathematics panel was chaired by Professor Jan de Lange of the University of
Utrecht, and the science expert panel was chaired by Professor Wynne Harlen of the Scottish Council for
Research in Education. The members of the functional expert groups are listed in Appendix 1. The frame-
works have also been informed by reviews from expert panels in each of the participating countries. They
were adopted in December 1998 by OECD governments, through the Board of Participating Countries.
The publication was prepared by the Statistics and Indicators Division of the Directorate for Education,
Employment, Labour and Social affairs, principally Andreas Schleicher.

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OECD 1999
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................ 7
The Design of OECD/PISA 2000 ..................................................................................................................... 9
Basic features of OECD/PISA .............................................................................................................................
9
How OECD/PISA is different from other international assessments ............................................................ 10
What is being assessed in each domain .......................................................................................................... 11
How the assessment will take place and how results will be reported ...................................................... 14
The context questionnaires and their use ...................................................................................................... 15
OECD/PISA – An evolving instrument .............................................................................................................. 16