The PISA 2022 Field Trial was due to take place in 40 schools in March 2020 but was cut short as a result of school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Data was collected from 20 schools before the closures and was submitted to the international consortium overseeing the administration of PISA for analysis. The PISA 2022 Main Study was also postponed and took place one year later than planned.
The PISA 2025 Field Trial is due to take place in more than 50 schools in March 2024. Students, principals, and science coordinators will be invited to participate. The student assessment and the school questionnaire will be entirely computer-based, while the parent questionnaires will be paper-based. The science coordinator questionnaires will be available online and on paper.
A copy of the PISA Technical Standards is available here.
An animated video from the OECD outlines who takes the test, who sets the questions, and what can we learn from the findings: OECD’s informational video on PISA.
Information on PISA 2025 Field Trial
Information about the Field Trial for PISA 2025 will be available to view on this page shortly.
Try out the PISA tests!
Try out released questions from PISA here.
Short summaries on PISA findings
The OECD publishes short, themed summaries of PISA results which may be of interest to students, parents, teachers and policymakers.
Policy on confidentiality and anonymity
All information collected as part of PISA in Ireland is done so in accordance with the Data Protection and Statistics Acts and GDPR. The confidentiality and anonymity of participants is very important, and information on an individual school will only ever be provided to that school and will never be released to other schools or individuals. Information on individual teachers, students and parents will never be released.
For more information on the ERC’s data protection policy, please click here. For more PISA specific GDPR information, please click here.
Click on the links below for further information.
PISA National Advisory Committee for Ireland (2022-2025)