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PISA 2025 Results: Future-Ready Students (Volume I)

Volume I provides the initial results from OECD’s PISA 2025. PISA is an international assessment of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds near the end of their compulsory schooling. The major focus of the 2025 assessment was science, with a secondary focus on reading and mathematics. Volume I provides a detailed examination of student performance in science, reading, and mathematics, and describes how performance has changed since previous PISA assessments. It also provides information on student performance in computational problem-solving, which was measured as part of the PISA 2025 innovative domain – learning in the digital world.

Categories: Assessment and evaluation, Education data and research, Elementary and secondary education, Learning outcomes, Literacy

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Measuring Up: Canadian Results of the OECD PISA 2025 Study - The Performance of Canadian 15-Year-Olds in Science, Reading, and Mathematics

This report provides the initial results for Canada and the provinces from OECD’s PISA 2025. PISA is an international assessment of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds near the end of their compulsory schooling. The report presents both pan-Canadian and provincial results in science, reading, and mathematics, and complements the information presented in the PISA 2025 international report.

Categories: Assessment and evaluation, Education data and research, Elementary and secondary education, Learning outcomes

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PCAP 2023 Report on the Pan-Canadian Assessment of Science, Reading, and Mathematics

The Pan-Canadian Assessment Program (PCAP), a collaborative effort among Canadian provinces and territories, is a survey of the knowledge and skills of students in Grade 8/Secondary II in the core subject areas. The 2023 report describes the performance of Grade 8 students in the fifth administration of PCAP, in which the major domain was mathematics and the secondary or minor domains were reading and science. CMEC developed PCAP to ensure the availability of statistically valid, comparable data on student achievement, which can be used by education researchers, policy-makers, and government officials to understand and make improvements to provincial and territorial education systems.

Categories: Assessment and evaluation, Education data and research, Elementary and secondary education

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Measuring Up: Canadian Results of the OECD PISA 2022 Study – The Performance of Canadian 15-Year-Olds in Financial Literacy

This report provides a high-level description of Canadian results from the financial-literacy component of the OECD’s PISA 2022. PISA is a survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds near the end of their compulsory schooling. The report presents both pan-Canadian and provincial results in financial literacy, and it complements the information presented in the PISA 2022 international report.

Categories: Assessment and evaluation, Education data and research, Elementary and secondary education, Learning outcomes, Literacy

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Outside the Box: Canadian Results of the OECD PISA 2022 Study – The Performance of Canadian 15-Year-Olds in Creative Thinking

This report provides a high-level description of Canadian results from the creative-thinking component of the OECD’s PISA 2022. PISA is a survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds near the end of their compulsory schooling. The report presents both pan-Canadian and provincial results in creative thinking, and it complements the information presented in the PISA 2022 international report.

Categories: Assessment and evaluation, Education data and research, Elementary and secondary education, Learning outcomes, Literacy

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PISA 2022 Results: Learning During – and from – Disruption (Volume II)

Volume II, along with volume I, provides the initial results from OECD’s PISA 2022. PISA is a survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds near the end of their compulsory schooling. The major focus of the 2022 assessment was mathematics, with a secondary focus on reading and science. Volume II examines school and home contexts, educational resources, and the resiliency of education systems.

Categories: Assessment and evaluation, Education data and research, Elementary and secondary education, Learning outcomes, Literacy

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PISA 2022 Results: The State of Learning and Equity in Education (Volume I)

Volume I, along with volume II, provides the initial results from OECD’s PISA 2022. PISA is a survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds near the end of their compulsory schooling. The major focus of the 2022 assessment was mathematics, with a secondary focus on reading and science. Volume I provides a detailed examination of student performance in mathematics, reading, and science, and describes how performance has changed since previous PISA assessments.

Categories: Assessment and evaluation, Education data and research, Elementary and secondary education, Learning outcomes, Literacy

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Measuring Up: Canadian Results of the OECD PISA 2022 Study The Performance of Canadian 15-Year-Olds in Mathematics, Reading, and Science

This report provides the initial results for Canada and the provinces from OECD’s PISA 2022. PISA is a survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds near the end of their compulsory schooling. The report presents both national and provincial results in mathematics, reading, and science, and complements the information presented in the PISA 2022 international report.

Categories: Assessment and evaluation, Education data and research, Elementary and secondary education, Learning outcomes, Literacy

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Assessment Matters! Issue 21 - Does How Science Is Taught Relate to Science Achievement in PISA?

Assessment Matters! is a series of policy-oriented research notes designed to explore educational issues in Canada and Canadian jurisdictions. These notes are based on the results of international and national assessment programs, including the Pan-Canadian Assessment Program (PCAP), the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

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Assessment Matters! Issue 20 - Changing Attitudes: Are High School Students More Passionate about Science?

Assessment Matters! is a series of policy-oriented research notes designed to explore educational issues in Canada and Canadian jurisdictions. These notes are based on the results of international and national assessment programs, including the Pan-Canadian Assessment Program (PCAP), the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

Categories: Assessment and evaluation, Education data and research