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PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) 2009

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In this administration of PISA, nearly half a million 15-year-olds from 65 countries or economies took part. Reading was the main focus of PISA 2009 and is reported in detail in this report - this is the first time that a learning area has been the main focus of the PISA assessment. To provide an ongoing high-level picture of mathematics and science, results on an overall scale for these two learning areas are also reported.

Author(s): Various

Date Published: Various

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PISA 2009: Digital readers at age 15: Results from the PISA 2009 Electronic Reading Assessment

PISA 2009: Digital readers at age 15: Results from the PISA 2009 Electronic Reading Assessment The Electronic Reading Assessment is a new and innovative component of PISA that acknowledges the increasing relevance of electronic text and recognises its importance as a feature of reading. Those students who took part in the Electronic Reading Assessment (ERA) were given a 10 minute practice session and then asked to complete a 40 minute computer based assessment. The texts used in this assessment were hypertexts. Hypertexts are where the user has navigation tools and features that allow them to move through pages of text freely in numerous ways.

Author(s): Sarah Kirkham

Date Published: June 2011

PISA 2009: Our 21st century learners at age 15

PISA 2009: Our 21st century learners at age 15 This report provides a high level picture of New Zealand’s 15-year-old performance in reading literacy (main focus), mathematical literacy and scientific literacy. It compares New Zealand’s results with other top- and high-performing countries. In July and August 2009 4,643 New Zealand 15 year-old students from 163 New Zealand schools took part in PISA 2009.

Author(s): Maree Telford with Steve May [Ministry of Education]

Date Published: December 2010

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