Learning from PISA

Learning from PISA

The great competition is over, the judges have given their marks and the chalk dust has settled over the arena. A few hurt prides pick themselves up off the floor, and set about the painful task of finding out what went wrong and why they did not fare as well as they expected. This is not the aftermath of the winter Olympics, rather the results of the PISA study, the Programme for International...

Learning for Tomorrow’s World: First Results from PISA 2003

Panel Estimates from PISA

Interpretation in Pisa From 1987 - :

Interpretation in Pisa

Scientific Literacy and Learning Strategies- Empirical Results from the Pisa Study

Introduction It could be argued that the most important learning is learning to learn. Learning to learn involves learning strategies like planning ahead, monitoring one’s performance, to identify sources of difficulty, checking, estimating, revision and self-testing. Learning strategies have been called “the secret algorithms of learning” (Duffy 1982). Nisbet & Shucksmith (1986) argue that eve...