PISA 2018 Results (Volume I)
What Students Know and Can Do
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines what students know in reading, mathematics and science, and what they can do with what they know. It provides the most comprehensive and rigorous international assessment of student learning outcomes to date. Results from PISA indicate the quality and equity of learning outcomes attained around the world, and allow educators and policy makers to learn from the policies and practices applied in other countries. This is one of six volumes that present the results of the PISA 2018 survey, the seventh round of the triennial assessment. Volume I, What Students Know and Can Do, provides a detailed examination of student performance in reading, mathematics and science, and describes how performance has changed since previous PISA assessments.
What can students do in reading?
This chapter presents the various levels of proficiency that students exhibited in the PISA 2018 reading assessment. It describes what students can do at each level of proficiency using items from the actual assessment and the field trial that preceded it. The chapter presents how many students performed at each proficiency level. It then discusses student performance in various specific aspects of reading.