Schools: Standards

Department for Education written question – answered at on 23 July 2015.

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Photo of Peter Bone Peter Bone Conservative, Wellingborough

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what benchmarks are used to compare attainment in UK schools and the schools of comparable countries.

Photo of Nick Gibb Nick Gibb Minister of State (Education)

England participates in three research studies that enable international benchmarking of the performance of our pupils against the performance of their peers in other countries:

Northern Ireland also participates in each of these three studies, and all four UK countries participate in the OECD’s PISA study.

In England and Wales, schools can also access the OECD’s PISA-based test for schools, which provides schools with a tool to benchmark the performance of their 15-year-old pupils within and beyond local and national borders, and is available online at: www.oecd.org/pisa/aboutpisa/pisa-based-test-for-schools.htm

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