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What are the significances of HKPISA?

 

PISA results will provide a baseline profile of the knowledge and skills of students.

In each subject domain, students' achievement levels will be reported on a continum describing their capacity to perform specific tasks. Breakdowns will also be possible for sub-groups defined by student characteristics - such as achievement by gender or by socio-economic group.

 

Analyses will seek to identify key demographic, social, economic and educational determinants of student and school performance.

PISA will provide an extensive basis for policy-oriented analysis of the assessment results. For example, PISA will:

1. Relate student performance to the context of instruction;

2. Analyse the relationship between student performance and school factors such as the quality of the school's human and material resources or public and private control, funding and decision-making mechanisms;

3. Analyse differences in achievement patterns within countries, including information on the proportion of variation in student performance between, rather than within schools as well as the extent to which schools influence the relationship between students' performance and the economic, social and cultural capital of their families;

4. Compare aspects of students' lives such as their attitudes to learning and their life in school and in their family environment.

 

Every three years, a new set of findings and analysis will provide information on how student characteristics are changing.

By comparing the direction and pace of change in different countries, policy makers will be able to put local developments in the context of global change to meet the challenges of the new century.