New Zealand 15 year old students have scored 5th out of 57 countries for reading in the just published 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report from the OECD. Kiwi students ranked 2nd in terms of the numbers of students reading at the highest level, but the overall rank dropped to 5th because of the relatively large number of students (15%) reading at the lowest level. New Zealand's mean score has not changed significantly since the previous PISA report from 2003.
Although showing that the "long tail" is still evident in NZ students' reading levels, this is a very impressive result. Among the 52 countries ranked below New Zealand were relatively wealthy, well-resourced countries like Australia, Great Britain, France and Germany.
Kiwi kids also did well in Maths and Science.
See NZ Herald story here.
See the Press article here.
And the Dominion one is here.
Read the OECD Executive Summary here.
Go here to look at the full report, downloadable in two volumes. The report focuses on science, and also discusses maths and reading.
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