PISA (2018, 2022 & 2025)

PISA

PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) is a joint OECD research programme which, since 2000, has mapped the mathematics, science and literacy skills of 15-year-olds every three years in an international comparative framework. PISA also examines young people's attitudes and skills for learning, as well as key competences for the future, which change on a rotating basis.

In Finland, the main responsibility for implementing the national component of PISA lies with the Institute for Educational Research (KTL) at the University of Jyväskylä. We are responsible for the implementation of the innovative assessment areas that change from round to round. We are also responsible for the review of learning and schooling support as part of PISA.

For more information on PISA, please visit the University of Jyväskylä's Institute for Educational Research website.

PISA 2025

The main assessment area for PISA 2025 is science literacy, which is carried out by KTL of the University of Jyväskylä. REAL is responsible for the implementation of the innovative assessment area, which in this round is learning in digital world. Another new assessment area is foreign languages, which is the responsibility of the Centre for Applied Linguistics (Solki) at the University of Jyväskylä.

The pre-test will take place in spring 2024, the main test in spring 2025 and the first results will be published in December 2026.

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 results of the creative thinking area will be published in June 2024.

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.