PISA 2006: Reading Literacy - How ready are our 15-year-olds for tomorrow’s world?

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This report describes New Zealand's results for reading literacy in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006, which covers 57 countries. It expands on information already released in international and national reports in December 2007. In 2006, reading literacy was a minor focus in PISA. This report also includes information on New Zealand results from 2000 and 2003.

Author(s): Nicola Marshall, Robyn Caygill & Steve May

Date Published: September 2008

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New Zealand’s PISA web page is located on Education Counts. The OECD’s PISA 2006 International Report can be accessed from the OECD PISA. An interactive data selection facility, which allows selected analyses of international contextual information for student performance, is also available from this site, along with the international versions of the student, school and parent questionnaires. Further reporting of New Zealand PISA 2006 results will be available later in 2008.

PISA will be administered in New Zealand again during July and August 2009. The PISA 2009 results will be published by the OECD in December 2010.

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