Green at fifteen?
Subtitle: how 15-year-olds perform in environmental science and geoscience in PISA 2006
Contributors: Programme for International Student Assessment
Series: PISA
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9789264061293
Subjects: Environmental education; Statistics; High school students; Rating of; Academic achievement; Programme for International Student Assessment
Description: "The OECD's PISA 2006 assessment of the science competencies of 15-year-olds offers the first comprehensive and internationally comparative knowledge base of students' knowledge about the environment and environment-related issues. This publication presents an analysis of this knowledge base, including information on the sources of students' awareness of environmental science, their attitudes towards the environment and how these attitudes interrelate with their performance in environmental science"--Publisher's description.
Notes: "Programme for International Student Assessment."

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: PISA 2006 and students' performance in environmental science and geoscience; title: A profile of student performance in environmental science and geoscience; title: Making connections and taking responsibility; title: Learning about environmental science and geoscience.