The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an OECD project that assesses the skills and knowledge of 15-year-olds in reading literacy, mathematics, and science. It also evaluates additional domains like creative problem solving. PISA has transitioned to computer-based testing since 2015 and uses adaptive testing methods to accurately assess each student's ability level. In addition to achievement testing, PISA collects contextual data through questionnaires from students, parents, teachers, and principals.
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an OECD project that assesses the skills and knowledge of 15-year-olds in reading literacy, mathematics, and science. It also evaluates additional domains like creative problem solving. PISA has transitioned to computer-based testing since 2015 and uses adaptive testing methods to accurately assess each student's ability level. In addition to achievement testing, PISA collects contextual data through questionnaires from students, parents, teachers, and principals.
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an OECD project that assesses the skills and knowledge of 15-year-olds in reading literacy, mathematics, and science. It also evaluates additional domains like creative problem solving. PISA has transitioned to computer-based testing since 2015 and uses adaptive testing methods to accurately assess each student's ability level. In addition to achievement testing, PISA collects contextual data through questionnaires from students, parents, teachers, and principals.
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international
assessment of the skills and knowledge of 15-year-olds. PISA is a project of the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In all counties, the project is managed by the Educational Research Centres on the behalf of the Ministries of Education.
In more recent cycles of PISA, additional innovative domains have been developed and made available to countries to administer to students. For example, Creative Problem Solving .
PISA has transitioned to a computer-based assessment; since 2015, almost all
participating countries, including Ireland, have administered PISA entirely by computer. In previous cycles of PISA, as well as completing paper-based assessments of reading literacy, mathematics and science, additional optional assessments of digital literacy, computer-based mathematics and problem solving were administered.
Adaptive testing is possible on a computer-based platform and can improve
accuracy and fairness in testing. Using a multi-stage approach, the test is adaptive toeachstudent’sabilitylevel– students start on a common set of items, and then, at intervals, progress onto items of a lower or higher difficulty, based on their previous performance.
Along with assessing the achievements of students, PISA collects detailed
contextual information from students, parents, teachers, and principals through the context questionnaires.