PISA 2006: School context of science achievement: How ready are our 15-year-olds for tomorrow's world?

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This report examines the school context in which the science learning of 15-year-old students takes place. The findings presented come from the administration of PISA 2006, where the main subject of interest was science.

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

Date Published: September 2008

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New Zealand’s PISA web page is at www.educationcounts.govt.nz/goto/pisa. 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 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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