PISA Information Line T: 1800 280 625 This website provides
background information on the Programme for International
Student Assessment (PISA) and Australia’s participation in this
international program for policy-makers, government officials,
educators, parents, students and the media. PISA was designed to
assist governments to monitor the outcomes of education systems
in terms of student achievement on a regular basis and within an
internationally accepted common framework, in other words, to
allow them to compare how students in their countries were
performing on a set of common tasks compared to students in
other countries. In this way, PISA helps governments to not only
understand, but also to enhance, the effectiveness of their
educational systems and to learn from other countries practices.
Every three years, PISA collects information on student
achievement and contextual information about students, teachers
and schools, and derives educational indicators that can monitor
differences (and similarities