This web report provides key comparative information about 15-year-old students in the United States and 77 other education systems that participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018. PISA is sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and focuses on students’ ability to apply the knowledge and skills they have learned, both in and out of school, to real-world problems, assessing students who are nearing the end of secondary schooling. PISA 2018 data are based on students’ performance on the PISA assessments of reading, mathematics, and science literacy as well as students’ and principals’ responses to survey questions.
The web report highlights U.S. student performance across these three subject domains in comparison to their peers in the 77 other participating education systems, including the other 36 member countries of the OECD, with a special emphasis on reading literacy, the major focus of PISA 2018.
Performance results are presented as average scores on a scale with a mean of 500 points and standard deviation of 100 and as percentages of students reaching the PISA proficiency levels. In addition to the 2018 results, comparisons are made to earlier PISA cycles, going back as far as 2000. The web report also includes information about the performance of various student groups, as well as performance differences among them.
In
PISA 2018, the major domain was reading literacy, although mathematics
and science literacy were also assessed. The results for an optional
domain assessed in 2018—financial literacy—will be released separately
in spring 2020.
Click on the three buttons below
to explore the PISA 2018 results by subject area. Make sure to continue
reading down the page for more information about PISA.
READING
LITERACY Reading literacy was the major domain in PISA 2018. As the major domain, about half of the assessment was devoted to reading literacy items designed to measure students’ ability to engage with texts across a variety of scenarios and tasks, including digital contexts. See an example reading item.
LITERACY Reading literacy was the major domain in PISA 2018. As the major domain, about half of the assessment was devoted to reading literacy items designed to measure students’ ability to engage with texts across a variety of scenarios and tasks, including digital contexts. See an example reading item.
MATHEMATICS
LITERACY Mathematics literacy was a minor domain in PISA 2018. As one of the two minor domains, about one-quarter of the assessment was devoted to mathematics literacy items designed to measure students’ capacity to formulate, employ, and interpret mathematics in a variety of contexts.
LITERACY Mathematics literacy was a minor domain in PISA 2018. As one of the two minor domains, about one-quarter of the assessment was devoted to mathematics literacy items designed to measure students’ capacity to formulate, employ, and interpret mathematics in a variety of contexts.
SCIENCE
LITERACY Science literacy was a minor domain in PISA 2018. As one of the two minor domains, about one- quarter of the assessment was devoted to science literacy items designed to measure students’ ability to engage with science-related issues, and with the ideas of science, as a reflective citizen.
China and Singapore ranked first and second, respectively, in all three subjects. Students in the US continue to lag behind their international peers, and scores remained largely unchanged since 2015.
LITERACY Science literacy was a minor domain in PISA 2018. As one of the two minor domains, about one- quarter of the assessment was devoted to science literacy items designed to measure students’ ability to engage with science-related issues, and with the ideas of science, as a reflective citizen.
China and Singapore ranked first and second, respectively, in all three subjects. Students in the US continue to lag behind their international peers, and scores remained largely unchanged since 2015.
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