The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a three-yearly international comparable survey of the educational performance and skills of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science across OECD countries and other partner countries. This manual for SPSS users sets out information to facilitate data analysis of the PISA 2003 database and to explain the methodology used in data collection, in order to enable researchers to both reproduce the initial PISA 2003 results and to undertake further analyses. A separate manual is available for SAS users (ISBN 9264010637).

This publication includes detailed information on how to analyse the PISA data, enabling researchers to both reproduce the initial results and to undertake further analyses.

This publication provides all the information required to understand the PISA 2003 educational performance database and perform analyses in accordance with the complex methodologies used to collect and process the data. It includes worked examples providing full syntax in SPSS®.

This publication includes detailed information on how to analyse the PISA data, enabling researchers to both reproduce the initial results and to undertake further analyses.

The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) surveys collected data on students’ performance in reading, mathematics and science, as well as contextual information on students’ background, home characteristics and school factors ...