Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 September 2012
451. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of the mathematics results for this State from the most recent PISA test, showing the percentage of correct answers and questions skipped for the following categories (details supplied). [38739/12]
View answerThe full information which the Deputy has requested is not available. However, chapter 9 of "PISA 2009: Results for Ireland and Changes Since 2000" which was published by the Education Research Centre in June 2012 outlines student performance on the various item types. This is available at:http://www.erc.ie/documents/pisa2009main_nationalreport.pdf. In addition, the Education Research Centre has analysed performance in PISA 2003 and 2009, and compared the percent correct, incorrect, missing and not reached on all items, and multiple choice, short response, and longer written response items for a set of mathematics items that was administered in both cycles. This information on the performance of Irish students is available at the link: http://www.erc.ie/documents/engagement_and_performance_over_time.pdf.
