The PISA 2025 Main Study
Preparations are now underway for the PISA 2025 Main Study, due to take place in Ireland in March and April 2025. Approximately 8,000 students from 172 schools across Ireland will be asked to participate in the Main Study. Principals and science coordinators from these schools, as well as the parents/guardians of participating students will also be invited to complete questionnaires as part of the study.
A copy of the PISA Technical Standards is available here.
The PISA 2025 Field Trial
The Field Trial for PISA 2025 took place between March and April 2024. We tested in 53 schools and sampled 50 students per school. Over 2,000 students participated in the Field Trial. Principals, and science coordinators from these 53 schools also participated, including the parents/guardians of participating students.
The student assessment and questionnaire, as well as the school and science coordinator questionnaire were entirely computer-based. The parent questionnaires were paper-based.
The PISA Assessment was delivered via an online and an offline mode. This mode of delivery is a new feature for PISA 2025 which was developed to ensure that the assessment runs smoothly across schools with differing internet capabilities.
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)
