U.S. Highlighted Results from the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) (NCES 2020-166)

This web report provides key comparative information about 15-year-old students in the United States and 77 other education systems that participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018. PISA is sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and focuses on students' ability to apply the knowledge and skills they have learned both in and out of school to real-world problems as students are nearing the end of secondary schooling. PISA 2018 data are based on students' performance on the PISA assessments of reading, mathematics, and science literacy as well as students' and principals' responses to survey questions. The web report highlights U.S. student performance across these three subject domains in comparison to their peers in the 77 other participating education systems, including the other 36 member countries of the OECD, with a special emphasis on reading literacy, the major focus of PISA 2018.