Problem Solving for Tomorrow's World
Subtitle: First Measures of Cross-Curricular Competencies from PISA 2003
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: PISA
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9789264006430
Subjects: Education
Description: This book examines the results of the special portion of the 2003 PISA survey of student achievement that relates to problem-solving skills. Covering 40 countries, it provides, for the first time, a direct assessment of life competencies that apply across different areas of the school curriculum. The assessment looked at students' abilities to identify problems in various settings, to choose relevant information or constraints, to represent possible alternatives or solution paths, to develop solution strategies, to solve the problem, and to communicate the solution. This report examines how countries can raise their performance in this competency area and what countries with lower performance levels can learn from those whose students do well.  It also provides insights into some of the factors that are associated with the development of problem-solving skills and into how these factors interact and what the implications are for policy development.  Finally, the report sheds light on countries that succeed in achieving high performance levels while at the same time providing an equitable distribution of learning opportunities.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. PISA 2003 and Problem Solving; title: Readers' Guide; title: Chapter 2. Problem Solving in PISA 2003 - How It Was Measured and How Students Performed; title: Chapter 3. Student Performance in Problem Solving Compared with Performance in Mathematics, Reading and Science; title: Chapter 4. Student Performance on the Problem-Solving Items; title: Chapter 5. The Role that Gender and Student Background Characteristics Play in Student Performance in Problem Solving; title: References; title: Annexes