Database - PISA 2003

In addition to assessing student performance, PISA also collects information on student attitudes and approaches to learning as well as the learning environment and organisation of schooling.

This interactive data selection facility allows you to select up to four particular school-level and student-level questions and relate the resulting cells to student performance in a multi-dimensional table.

In PISA 2003 there were three student questionnaires: A student questionnaire collecting background information on students and their learning environment, a questionnaire on educational careers, and a questionnaire on computer familiarity. There was also a School Questionnaire filled out by the senior administrator in the school of the sampled students.

When you have decided on the questions (maximum of four) and countries of interest you should select them from the list boxes below. You will also need to specify whether you are interested to tabulate results for student performance in reading, mathematical or scientific literacy or problem solving (only one selection possible per request).

You also need to specify an e-mail address; this is where the output file will be sent. Then select "Submit Request" and a multidimensional table will be created and e-mailed to you as an MS Excel^TM file. Your request will need to be processed and may take some time. The results will be sent to the specified e-mail address.

This table will show the percentage in each cell and the mean achievement in the selected assessment domain (reading, mathematical or scientific literacy or problem solving). The standard error is also provided.

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