Transcription of PISA 2012 Results in Focus - OECD
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Programme for International Student AssessmentPISA 2012 Results in FocusWhat 15-year-olds know and what they can do with what they knowPISA 2012 Results In Focus : WhAt 15-yeAR-oldS knoW And WhAt they cAn do WIth WhAt they knoW OECD 20142 Angel Gurr aOECD Secretary-GeneralEquipping young people with the skills to achieve their full potential, participate in an increasingly interconnected global economy, and ultimately convert better jobs into better lives is a central preoccupation of policy makers around the world. Skills empower people to meet the challenges of everyday life, related to making decisions; solving problems; dealing with unexpected events, such as job loss and family break-up. Beyond better outcomes for the individual, skills also provide the vital glue for resilient communities and well-functioning societies, by strengthening inclusiveness, tolerance, trust, ethics, responsibility, environmental awareness, collaboration and effective democratic the past decade, the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), has become the world s premier yardstick for evaluating
• All 34 OECD member countries and 31 partner countries and economies participated in PISA 2012, ... • Between 2003 and 2012, Italy, Poland and Portugal increased their shares of top performers and simultaneously reduced their shares of low performers in mathematics.
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