PISA 2018 Results (Volume II)
Where All Students Can Succeed
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 II, Where All Students Can Succeed, examines gender differences in student performance, and the links between students’ socio-economic status and immigrant background, on the one hand, and student performance and well-being, on the other.
Students’ socio-economic status and performance
This chapter shows how strongly socio-economic status is associated with performance in the countries and economies that participated in PISA 2018. It first examines the large heterogeneity in socio-economic status observed both between and within countries. It also discusses how student performance varies, even amongst students of similar socio-economic status, depending on the country/economy in which the students are enrolled in school. The chapter also illustrates how some school systems achieve excellence and weaken the association between students’ socio-economic status and performance in PISA.