Building on the work of the Center for Global Education at Asia Society and others, OECD has defined global competence as “the capacity to examine local, global and intercultural issues, to understand ...

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.

First administered in the 2000 to assess the quality of education systems across the world, the PISA (short for Program for International Student Assessment) is currently undergoing significant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most publicized and scrutinized tools for gauging U.S. students’ progress on international tests is the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA. Yesterday, a pair of ...

Every time the results of the international PISA test are released, the United States gets another opportunity to whip itself for students’ lackluster showing. For those who are unfamiliar with it, ...

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The results for PISA 2009 are revisited, focusing on the large decline in the scores of Irish students in reading and mathematics achievement. Findings concerning two aspects of PISA are reviewed: (a) ...

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