PISA 2006
Overview PISA Welcome What is Pisa? Which Countries Take Part in PISA? What Information does PISA collect? What does PISA tell us? PISA 2006 PISA 2009 Publications Useful Links National Advisory Committee Contact Information for Students ICCS TALIS	In PISA 2006, approximately 400,000 students in 57 countries (including all 30 OECD member countries) took part. This makes PISA one of the largest educational assessments in the world. Over 4,500 students across 165 Irish schools took part in the assessment during March and April 2006. Science was the major focus of the assessment, allowing an in-depth examination of students' achievements across a wider range of science content areas and skills than had been possible in either 2000 or 2003. Student achievement in science is described on an overall scale, on subscales, and along proficiency levels similar to those which already exist for mathematics and reading. As well as science, PISA 2006 provides information about student achievement in mathematics and reading. Further, it offers an opportunity to examine changes in achievement from the 2000 and 2003 cycles, allowing for more confident interpretations to be drawn. PISA 2006 coincided with the first examination of the revised Junior Certificate science syllabus in Ireland. Consequently, a questionnaire was designed specifically for those teaching Junior Certificate science classes. This provided considerable information about the implementation of the revised syllabus, about overlap between Junior Certificate science and PISA science, and about science teaching practices generally. The resulting publication, “Implementing the Revised Junior Certificate Science Syllabus: What teachers said” can be downloaded by clicking here or ordered by clicking here.   Where can I read a report on PISA 2006? In Ireland, we published a national summary report on the same day that the international report was published by the OECD – December 4th, 2007. Our report – “Ready for Tomorrow’s World? The Competencies of Ireland’s 15-year-olds in PISA 2006” – can be downloaded by clicking here or ordered by clicking here. The international report can be ordered from the international PISA website. The main national report for Ireland was launched at the Third National PISA Symposium, in April 2008. The main report can be ordered by clicking here while details of the symposium can be accessed by clicking here.

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PISA 2006

In PISA 2006, approximately 400,000 students in 57 countries (including all 30 OECD member countries) took part. This makes PISA one of the largest educational assessments in the world. Over 4,500 students across 165 Irish schools took part in the assessment during March and April 2006.

Science was the major focus of the assessment, allowing an in-depth examination of students' achievements across a wider range of science content areas and skills than had been possible in either 2000 or 2003. Student achievement in science is described on an overall scale, on subscales, and along proficiency levels similar to those which already exist for mathematics and reading. As well as science, PISA 2006 provides information about student achievement in mathematics and reading. Further, it offers an opportunity to examine changes in achievement from the 2000 and 2003 cycles, allowing for more confident interpretations to be drawn.

PISA 2006 coincided with the first examination of the revised Junior Certificate science syllabus in Ireland. Consequently, a questionnaire was designed specifically for those teaching Junior Certificate science classes. This provided considerable information about the implementation of the revised syllabus, about overlap between Junior Certificate science and PISA science, and about science teaching practices generally. The resulting publication, “Implementing the Revised Junior Certificate Science Syllabus: What teachers said” can be downloaded by clicking here or ordered by clicking here.

 

Where can I read a report on PISA 2006?

In Ireland, we published a national summary report on the same day that the international report was published by the OECD – December 4th, 2007. Our report – “Ready for Tomorrow’s World? The Competencies of Ireland’s 15-year-olds in PISA 2006” – can be downloaded by clicking here or ordered by clicking here. The international report can be ordered from the international PISA website.

The main national report for Ireland was launched at the Third National PISA Symposium, in April 2008. The main report can be ordered by clicking here while details of the symposium can be accessed by clicking here.