Media Advisory - OECD PISA 2022 REPORT WITH EMPHASIS ON MATHEMATICS SET FOR RELEASE ON DECEMBER 5, 2023

TORONTO, Nov. 23, 2023 /CNW/ - On December 5, 2023, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will be releasing the results from the 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2022).

PISA conducts a survey every three years, evaluating the knowledge and abilities of 15-year-olds as they approach the end of their compulsory education. The primary assessed domain of PISA 2022 was mathematics, with reading and science as minor domains. This assessment encompassed 81 countries and economies, engaging 5,000 to 10,000 students from at least 150 schools in each nation. In Canada, an impressive number of more than 23,000 students from over 800 schools across all 10 provinces participated.

A companion Canadian report will be released at the same time as the OECD report to provide further information on the performance of Canadian students.

Of particular interest to media:

• The assessment is administered once every three years. This regular assessment interval makes it possible to compare student performance over time. PISA 2022 will provide significant information about how well students have been performing in mathematics, reading, and science.
• The Canadian report provides information on student performance at the provincial level and provides comparative results among Canadian provinces and other countries and economies. It also provides performance results for English- and French-language systems and by gender. Additionally, it offers a comprehensive analysis of the correlation between specific variables, such as sociodemographic characteristics and students' beliefs and values, and their performance in mathematics.

Preliminary program for Tuesday, December 5, 2023

5:00 a.m. EST	OECD report made available online   www.pisa.oecd.org
5:00 a.m. EST	Canadian report made available online   https://cmec.ca/712/PISA_2022.html
Throughout day	Individual interviews in English or French   Members of the media are asked to contact Val Baravi for further information or to arrange an interview with CMEC representatives. Contact information available below.

Note: CMEC representatives will restrict their remarks to pan-Canadian and international data. For remarks about the performance of an individual province, members of the media should contact that province's ministry or department of education.

About CMEC

Founded in 1967, CMEC is the collective voice of Canada's ministers of education. It provides leadership in education at the pan-Canadian and international levels and contributes to the exercise of the exclusive jurisdiction of provinces and territories over education. For more information, visit us at www.cmec.ca. 

SOURCE Council of Ministers of Education, Canada

Val Baravi, Manager, Communications, CMEC, Cell: 249-288-9240, Tel.: [phone], ext. 298, Email: [email protected], X: @CCMEC, www.cmec.ca