Achievement of 15-year-olds in Wales: PISA 2012 National Report
03 December 2013
Cyflawniad Disgyblion 15 Oed yng Nghymru: Adroddiad Cenedlaethol PISA 2012
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a survey of mathematics, science and reading skills. Mathematics was the main subject in PISA 2012 and so was assessed in greater depth compared with the other two areas. In addition pupils and schools complete questionnaires to provide information about pupil background and attitudes, and aspects of school management and school climate respectively. Findings from the survey provide Government with detailed comparative evidence on which to base educational policy and provide researchers with a rich data set to explore with secondary analysis.
PISA 2012 involved pupils in 65 countries around the world. Schools in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland are oversampled so that results can be reported for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland and so comparisons can be made within the UK. In Wales, a total of 137 schools and 3305 pupils took part in PISA 2012 and almost 490 schools took part in the survey across the UK.
NFER is the PISA 2012 national research centre for the whole of the UK and conducted the survey on behalf of the Department for Education (DfE) (England), the Department of Education (DE) (Northern Ireland), the Welsh Government and the Scottish Government.
NFER would like to thank the schools, their teachers and pupils for representing their country and helping to make PISA 2012 a success.
Also see
National report for England
National report for Northern Ireland
International reports
Corrections to UK data