This fourth volume of PISA 2012 results examines how student performance is associated with various characteristics of individual schools and school systems.

This first volume of PISA 2012 results summarises the performance of students in PISA 2012. It describes how performance is defined, measured and reported, and then provides results from the assessment, showing what students are able to do.

This first volume of PISA 2012 results summarises the performance of students in mathematics, reading, and science in PISA 2012.

This second volume of PISA 2012 results defines and measures equity in education and analyses how equity in education has evolved across countries between PISA 2003 and 2012.

The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines not just what students know in mathematics, reading and science, but what they can do with what they know. This is the first of six volumes that present the results of the 2012 PISA survey, the fifth round of the triennial assessment. It summarises the performance in mathematics, reading and science of students in PISA 2012.

Annotation This volume presents data from the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 survey of scholastic performance. The survey offers a detailed picture of learning among 15-year-old students in mathematics and included an optional computer-based assessment of mathematics and reading involving some 30 countries as well as an optional area of assessment of financial literacy from 19 countries. "PISA 2012" examines how student performance varies by such factors as gender, socioeconomic background, and migration status. It provides insight into the factors that influence the development of knowledge and skills at home and at school, how these interact, and what the implications are for policy development. Finally, it sheds light on those countries that succeed in achieving high performance standards while providing an equitable distribution of learning opportunities.