By Anna Pons, Project Lead of the OECD Global Teaching InSights and the Schools+ Network.

Anna Pons presented her expertise around the theme “An international perspective on teaching practices” at ESSEC Pedagogical workshop on June 20th 2023. The recording is available here. In this article she discusses the latest PISA results and puts them in perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic and of the use of digital devices and emergence of large language models such as ChatGPT.

On December 5th, the global education community’s attention was focused on the release of the PISA 2022 results. This assessment has become the yardstick to measure what students know and are able to do internationally. About 690 000 students representing about 29 million 15-year-olds from schools in 81 participating countries and economies participated in this edition which focused on mathematics. In particular, the test explored students’ ability to think like a mathematician by formulating, solving, applying and evaluating problems.