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PISA 2006: Student attitudes to and engagement with science: How ready are our 15-year-olds for tomorrow's world?

Publication Details

This report examines the attitudes of 15-year-old students to science, along with a measure of their engagement with science.

Author(s): Robyn Caygill [Ministry of Education]

Date Published: September 2008

Further information

New Zealand’s PISA 2006 web page is available here on Education Counts. The OECD’s PISA 2006 international report can be accessed from the OECD PISA website www.pisa.oecd.org. An interactive data selection facility, which allows selected analyses of international contextual information and 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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