Year: 2024
Type: report
Abstract: Key findings1. England is one of the best-performing countries in terms of school-age attainment.Over the past decade, the literacy and numeracy skills of 15-year-olds in England have improved significantly relative to other high-income countries.While England is middle-of-the-pack on inequalities, among the OECD only Canada, Estonia, Ireland and Japan manage to deliver both stronger average attainment and lower inequality than England.2. The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced performance -reversing a decade of progress in reading.However, the extent of the decline is in line with other developed countries (and less severe than in other UK nations), and England still has higher levels of performance than the G7 average.For the rest of the UK nations, the picture is much worse -Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all saw their worst-ever PISA maths performance in 2022, and the latter two also recorded their worst scores in reading.
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4400972705