Reports & Media
PISA results: why are we slipping?
RadioNZ - The Panel
4 December, 2019
Ever since the OECD began testing the educational performance of 15-year olds in the early 2000s, New Zealand has performed progressively worse in all three assessed areas of reading, maths and science.
The troubling trajectory was confirmed again with the release of the results of the OECD's 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing round.
On RadioNZ - The Panel, Briar Lipson discusses the validity and results of the study and what it means for New Zealand.
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