PISA

PISA 2025

In the PISA 2025 cycle, the major domain was scientific literacy, the implementation of which was coordinated by the Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER) at the University of Jyväskylä. A new assessment domain in this cycle was foreign language assessment, which was implemented by the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) at the University of Jyväskylä.

REAL was responsible for implementing the innovative assessment domain Learning in the Digital World and for reporting results related to students with an immigrant background and learning support. The Learning in the Digital World assessment consists of two components: computational problem solving and self-regulated learning. The results for computational problem solving were published in autumn 2026, while the results related to self-regulated learning will be published in spring 2027. More information about the implementation of the computational problem-solving assessment, including released sample tasks and responses, is available in Finnish here. More general information about the Learning in the Digital World assessment can be found on the FIER website.

The first results report was published on 8.9.2026 and is available on the website of the Ministry of Education and Culture.

PISA 2022 

The main area of assessment in the 2022 survey was mathematics. The corona pandemic moved the pre- and main exams forward by one year from the original schedule, so the pre-test took place in spring 2021 and the main test in spring 2022. In this round, REAL was responsible for implementing the innovative assessment area of creative thinking and reviewing learning and school support. The first results of the main assessment area have been published in December 5, 2023 in The Ministry of Education and Culture.

The national creative thinking report has been published in Finnish on 18.6.2024 and is available here.

PISA 2018 

The main focus of the 2018 survey was literacy. According to the first results published in December 2019, Finnish young people's reading literacy remains among the highest in the OECD. The level of Finnish young people's maths skills has also remained unchanged compared to 2015. In science, on the other hand, skills have declined. For the first time, PISA 2018 collected data on support for Finnish pupils' learning and school attendance in terms of intensified and special support. This part of the survey was carried out by REAL researchers at the Centre for Educational Assessment at the University of Helsinki.