OECD's PISA report for 2012 is out

The results of the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (or PISA) are out. The document "What 15-year-olds know and what they can do with what they know: Key results from PISA 2012" makes for very interesting reading, although it only details the results for Mathematics.

Flanders did rather well, again.

For Mathematics, it came, together with Switzerland, 9th (out of 64) after Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Korea, Macao, Japan and Liechtenstein(!). The UK ended up 26th and the US 36th.

For Reading, Flanders got a score of 518, putting it in the 10th position after Shanghai (570), Hong Kong (545), Singapore (542), Japan (538), Korea (536), Finland (524), Taipei (523), Canada (523) and Ireland (523).

Finally, for Science it did rather less well and ended up with a score of 518, putting it in 17th place after Shanghai (580), Hong Kong (555), Singapore (551), Japan (547), Finland (545), Estonia (541), Korea (538), Vietnam (528), Poland (526), Canada (525), Liechtenstein (525), Taipei (523), Germany (524), The Netherlands (522), Macao (521), Australia (521).