Australian students’ Pisa scores still declining despite climb into OECD top 10

Educational research group says rise is more to do with other countries’ performances dropping

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Australia’s Year 9 students have climbed into the top 10 of OECD countries, the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) results show, while continuing a longer-term trend of national decline.

The 2022 Pisa results, released on Tuesday evening by the Australian Council for Educational Research (Acer), showed Australia’s overall performance was above the OECD average in all categories, after sitting at average for the first time in mathematics in 2018.

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