A UNESCO skill test revealed a worrying educational crisis in Latin America, with three out of four students lacking basic proficiency in mathematics and 57% struggling with science. The Program for ...

Have you ever wondered how countries compare when it comes to their education systems? That’s where the PISA Test comes in. PISA, or the Programme for International Student Assessment, is a worldwide ...

The question from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test conducted every three years across more than 80 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...

Does America have a high school math problem? U.S. teens still are performing mid-pack relative to their peers around the world on a set of international tests, according to a new report. On the ...

This paper investigates differences between male and female student performance on multiple-choice (MC) versus constructed-response (CR) items used on the large-scale math and reading PISA tests. The ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. We’ve all seen the headlines: American students are far from stellar performers on ...