RSSMathematics Literacy of 15-Year-Olds From Twelve Selected Countries 2003
(Continued from Science Literacy Chart)
The emphasis of the PISA 2000 survey had been on reading, whereas the focus of the PISA 2003 assessment was on mathematics. This was not a test of students’ ability simply to perform mathematical operations, but rather an assessment of how well they could recognize, formulate and tackle mathematical problems in the context of real life. Fifteen-year-olds were chosen as a means of assessing the overall performance of school systems in educating students nearing the end of their compulsory education. The mathematics section consisted of 85 questions of varying levels of difficulty. Usually several tasks were posed about a single situation described in text or a diagram. Scores were awarded based upon the difficulty of the task that each student could reliably perform.
(Continued on Problem Solving Ability Chart)
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