PISA 2018 Results released December 2019.
600,000 students from 79 countries participated in the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing.
This included 14,273 Australian students from 740 Australian schools.
The results of the 2018 testing were released on 3rd December 2019.
The highest performers across in PISA 2018 were in China and Singapore.
China selected the Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, together with Macao, Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei this year, and the report includes results for all of them as four countries. But the other 22 provinces were excluded.
- A question mark has been raised over the results for China. Washington Post: China is No. 1 on PISA — but here’s why its test scores are hard to believe.
In Australia, all 15-year-old students from all states and territories and from all school systems are eligible to participate.
Australia, with very similar results to the UK, Japan, USA and New Zealand, was above the OECD average, and came in at position 14 when comparing countries. There were 74 countries, if the Chinese territories are included as one country. ie: The “One-China policy”.
Top Three countries for each category, together with UK, USA, New Zealand and Australia:
PISA 2018 Reading Scores:.
- 549 Singapore
- 527 China
- 523 Estonia
- …
- 506 New Zealand
- 505 USA
- 504 UK
- 503 Australia
- 340 Lowest scoring country
PISA 2018 Mathematics scores.
- 569 Singapore
- 558 China
- 526 Korea
- …
- 502 UK
- 494 New Zealand
- 491 Australia
- 478 USA
- 325 Lowest scoring country
PISA 2018 Science scores.
- 551 Singapore
- 542 China
- 530 Estonia
- …
- 508 New Zealand
- 505 UK
- 503 Australia
- 502 USA
- 336 Lowest scoring country
The figure for China has been averaged from each of the Chinese scores provided, as China was represented by seven individual provinces and territories.
Full report at: http://www.oecd.org/pisa/PISA-results_ENGLISH.png
OECD PISA 2018: oecd.org/pisa
Australian Data Report: acer.org/au/ozpisa/key-findings-2018
