CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -India will participate in PISA 2021. MHRD, in 2018, decided that India will become a participant in Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA).

Detailed explanation-2: -India, which is not a member of the OECD, had last participated in Pisa in 2009, when it had ranked 73rd among 74 countries, above only Kyrgyzstan.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is PISA? PI A is an international study that was launched by the OECD in 1997, first administered in 2000 and now covers over 80 countries. Every 3 years the PISA survey provides comparative data on 15-year-olds’ performance in reading, mathematics, and science.

Detailed explanation-4: -In this round of PISA, where students from Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu sat for the test, India ranked 72nd out of 73 countries, outranking only Kyrgyzstan. Since then, India has strayed away from the test until now, for students from Chandigarh will be sitting for the test in 2022.

Detailed explanation-5: -PISA assesses to what extent the 15-year-old students are acquiring key knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in modern societies. The assessment tests are administered every three years, which does not only find out whether students can reproduce what they have learned.