Kurunjang Secondary College Newsletter

National Assesment Program

PISA 2018

Dear families,

In 2018 Kurunjang Secondary College will take part in an international sample assessment of students’ skills and knowledge in reading, mathematics, science and financial literacy. The results of PISA provide information towards monitoring how well young Australians are meeting important educational goals, assists in identifying areas of strengths and weaknesses in the Australian education system and enables policymakers, researchers and teachers to learn from other educations systems around the world.

 

 WHAT IS PISA?

  • The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is one of the international assessments in Australia’s National Assessment Program.
  • PISA was first administered in 2000, and is conducted every three years. PISA 2018 is the seventh PISA assessment that will be conducted.
  • PISA measures how well 15-year-olds are prepared to use the skills and knowledge in particular areas to meet real-life challenges.
  • PISA is conducted every three years and provides data for key performance measures specified in the Measurement Framework for Schooling in Australia.
  • PISA results are used to evaluate progress towards the Educational Goals for Young Australians and the National Education Agreement outcome that Australian students excel by international standards.
  • PISA 2018 will involve more than half-a-million students (representing about 29 million 15-year-old students) from around 80 countries and economies.
  • PISA is managed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Education and Training and the State and Territory Departments of Education.
  • PISA will be administered to a sample of 15-year-old students between 30 July and 7 September 2018. Under the Australian Education Act 2013 and the Australian Education Regulations 2013, all sampled schools are required to participate in PISA.

Further information will be available in Term 2 and a letter will be sent to all selected students and families.

Ms Aylin Gökmen

Assistant Principal