PISA 2000
Information about PISA 2000, including a summary of New Zealand's performance and access to publications using PISA 2000 data
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Key findings of PISA 2000
Assessing Knowledge and Skills for Life summarises the main results from PISA 2000 for New Zealand and places these results in the international context of the other participating countries. Key findings from PISA 2000 were:
Key findings of reading literacy
- New Zealand students were among the best with the:
- highest proportion of students at the top of reading literacy
- third highest mean score on the combined reading literacy scale as measured by PISA.
- Girls, students from high decile schools, students from high socio-economic status families, students from single-sex schools (although this probably linked to socio-economic status) and students from major urban areas performed relatively well.
- Some groups who didn't perform well were still above the OECD mean.
- There was a wide spread of scores within schools - it is likely that each school is working with a diverse range of student ability.
- It was evident that there were students from each gender and each ethnic grouping who were high performers. Similarly, there were students from each of these groups who were low performers. The performance differences within these groups was greater than the difference between these groups (eg, there was more variation in performance among girls than there was between boys and girls).
Key findings of mathematical and scientific literacy
- New Zealand is in the top performing group of countries for both mathematical and scientific literacy with the:
- third highest mean score for mathematical literacy, sixth highest for scientific literacy as measured by PISA.
- There is not much difference between boys and girls in New Zealand in these areas of literacy.
- Students from high decile schools, high socio-economic families and single -sex schools (although this is probably linked to socio-economic status), perform relatively well.
- For scientific literacy, students from major urban schools perform better (no statistical difference for mathematical literacy).
- There was a wide spread of scores within schools - it is likely that each school is working with a diverse range of student ability.
Publications
The Ministry of Education has published a number of research reports based on the 2000 PISA assessments, which are available from the PISA publication home page.
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