Significant declines across the board cause for concern: PISA results

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published December 4, 2019

New Zealand students have continued to suffer significant declines in reading, maths and science performance, the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results show.

The biggest drop was in math literacy, where the mean score declined by 29 percentage points, from 523 in 2003 ...

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