A new issue of Snapshots, from the Australian Council for Education Research (ACER), looks at self-reported levels of effort students invested in the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) 2018 test. Below are the percentages of students who indicated they would have invested more effort if it counted towards their school marks.
when taking tests Student effort
Denmark
Source: De Bortoli, L. (2021, October 18). Snapshots issue 16:
How much effort are students putting into PISA?. Snapshots. 16(16) https://research.acer.edu.au/snapshots/vol16/iss16/1
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Germany
Canada
UK Sweden
Norway
Australia Singapore
New Zealand
Finland Ireland
Poland
Estonia OECD Average
Hong Kong (China)
Japan
US
Macao (China)
Chinese Taipei Korea
*B-S-J-Z (China)
80 79 79 77 76 75 74 73 73 71 70 68
68 68 67 65 60
53 46
45 38
Countries and economic regions that performed significantly higher
than Australia in reading literacy in PISA 2018
Countries and economic regions that performed
not significantly different from Australia in reading literacy in PISA 2018
*Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang
