Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has decided to participate in PISA– an international assessment of student ability – in 2021 after a gap of 10 years.
About:
PISA is an acronym for Program for International Student Assessment.
it is a triennial international survey which was first administered in
It is coordinated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Objective: It assesses the quality of education systems across the world by evaluating students in science, mathematics and reading.
Criteria:
The two-hour computer-based test focuses on 15-year-old students as they have either completed or are near the end of their compulsory education in most countries.
PISA requires the examinees to have finished at least six years of formal schooling.
Participation in PISA:
About 5.5 lakh students in 72 countries took the test in 2015.
However, many non-OECD members including all SAARC nations, Greenland, Argentina and the entire African continent (except Algeria and Tunisia) either don’t regularly participate or haven’t participated at all in PISA.
Till date, India has participated only once in PISA in 2009.
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