High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Friday, March 13, 2009
PISA is one of three major international studies in which Scotland participates. PISA assesses the performance of 15-year-old pupils in maths, reading and science. The latest publication, PISA 2006, showed that:-
- in science, Scotland's performance was above average but had not changed since 2003 while other countries had on average improved.
- in maths Scotland's performance was average, but had declined since 2003.
- in reading Scotland's performance was average, but had declined since 2003.
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