Result of PISA
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial worldwide test of 15-year-old schoolchildren's scholastic performance, the implementation of which is coordinated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). PISA was first mooted in 1997 . Macau was being rated the 6th and 5th in the part of problem solving and science. The results of each period of assessment normally take at least a year to be analysed. The first results for PISA 2000 came out in 2001 (OECD, 2001a) and 2003 (OECD, 2003c), and were followed by thematic reports studying particular aspects of the results. The evaluation of PISA 2003 was published in two volumes: Learning for Tomorrow’s World: First Results from PISA 2003 (OECD, 2004) and Problem Solving for Tomorrow’s World – First Measures of Cross-Curricular Competencies from PISA 2003 (OECD, 2004d) Here is an overview of the six places with the highest scores in 2003 (the tables for maths and reading literacy excluded):
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The most recent PISA results from the 2006 survey were released in 2007. Macau is one of the top 10 performing countries or regions in the field of mathematics.
| Mathematics | |
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| 1. | Taiwan |
| 2. | Finland |
| 3. | Hong Kong |
| 4. | South Korea |
| 5. | Netherlands |
| 6. | Switzerland |
| 7. | Canada |
| 8. | Macau |
| 9. | Liechtenstein |
| 10. | Japan |
| ... | |
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