Measuring Up: Canadian Results of the OECD PISA 2015 Study

Measuring up: Canadian Results of the OECD PISA 2015 Study The Performance of Canadian 15-Year-Olds in Collaborative Problem Solving Measuring up: Canadian Results of the OECD PISA 2015 Study The Performance of Canadian 15-Year-Olds in Collaborative Problem Solving Authors Tanya Scerbina, Council of Ministers of Education, Canada Marie-Anne Deussing, Employment and Social Development Canada Kathry [...] In particular, the collaborative problem-solving performance of 15-year-old students across Canada and in the 10 provinces is compared to that of students in the other countries and economies that participated in the collaborative problem-solving assessment of PISA 2015. [...] As individual problem-solving skills were measured in PISA 2012, the last section of this chapter compares the individual problem-solving skills of 15-year-old students in 2012 with the collaborative problem-solving skills of 15-year- old students in 2015 to see the extent to which individual problem-solving skills are captured in the new collaborative problem-solving measure. [...] Canadian students achieve a high level of proficiency in collaborative problem solving In PISA 2015, 82 per cent of Canadian students and 72 per cent of students in OECD countries performed at or above Level 2 in collaborative problem solving, contributing to a collaborative effort to solve a problem of medium difficulty (Appendix B.1.1). [...] Figure 1.3 shows the difference in average scores between those in the lowest decile and those in the highest in collaborative problem solving for the provinces, Canada, and the OECD average.