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WHAT DOES PISA ACTUALLY ASSESS? Parents, students, teachers, governments and the general public need good information on how well their education systems prepare students for life. To monitor the outcomes of education systems in terms of student achievement led to the launch of the OECD's Programme for International Assessment (PISA) in 1997. PISA surveys are carried out every three years in a large number of countries, that together make up close to 90% of the world economy. The first PISA survey was carried out in 2000 in 43 countries. The results from PISA provide a new basis for policy dialogue and in defining and implementing educational goals, in innovative ways at government levels. PISA tests 15-year-old students in reading, mathematics and science as well as measuring a wider range of factors including students" interest, attitudes and motivation. The assessment focuses on young people's ability to use their knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges, rather than merely on the extent to which they have mastered a specific school curriculum. This book presents publicly available questions from the PISA surveys. Some of these questions were used in the PISA 2000, 2003 and 2006 surveys and others were used in developing and trying out the assessment. After a brief introduction, the book presents three chapters, including PISA questions for the reading, mathematics and science tests. Each chapter presents an overview of what exactly the questions assess. The second section of each chapter presents questions which were used in the PISA 2000, 2003 and 2006 surveys, that is, the actual PISA tests for which results were published. The third section presents questions used in trying out the assessment. Although these questions were not used in the PISA 2000, 2003 and 2006 surveys, they are nevertheless illustrative of the kind of question PISA uses. The final section shows all the answers, along with brief comments on each question."