It will be down to secondary schools themselves to decide if they take part in the new PISA tests next year, the Department for Education (DfE) has said.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) this week confirmed that it is to launch a version of its PISA test which will allow individual schools in England to benchmark themselves against the world’s top education systems.
PISA stands for the Programme for International Student Assessment and up until now the tests have only been used to compile global rankings of education systems.
PISA examines how 15-year-old students perform across reading, mathematics and science and the main test is conducted every three years, with around 65 countries or economies taking part, including the UK.
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