Schools in Europe will be able to benchmark their students’ proficiency in reading, maths and science against the world’s top education systems using a new tool being administered by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The OECD has developed the new tool based on its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to help individual schools benchmark their students.
The tool, intended for assessing 15-year old youngsters, will give teachers a more complete picture of student performance and attitudes than normal tests allow so that they can work out the best way to improve results.
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