India to participate in PISA after 9-year boycott
8th September, 2018Category: Education, National
India has decided to participate in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) after a gap of nine years. India is applying with Kendriya Vidyalayas, Navodaya Vidyalayas, and all schools, private and government, in Chandigarh for the 2021 test. For starters, the government has requested Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) to conduct PISA-like assessment for students of Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) and Navodaya Vidyalayas (NVs) annually, starting next year.
The PISA assessments first started in 2000, but India made its debut in the “extended cycle†of the test for 2009 with 16,000 students from 400 schools across Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. India boycotted PISA in 2012 and 2015 on account of its dismal performance in 2009 when bagged the 72nd rank among 74 participating countries. Then UPA government had boycotted PISA, blaming "out of context" questions for India's dismal performance. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) conducts PISA every three years to test the learning level of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics and science.
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