Finland vs. The United States (PISA)
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) created the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Almost 4 million students and over 100 countries have participated in PISA since its inception in the year 2000. According to the OECD website, “PISA measures 15-year-olds’ ability to use their reading, mathematics and science knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges” (PISA, 2024) .
While our focus in the United States is often on the performance of our American students, in recent years, researchers have shown great interest in Finland and how Finnish students perform on the PISA assessment. For a relatively small country, their PISA scores showed high levels of performance and equity (Sahlberg, 2012).
The Canva slides below present information about Finland’s education system and suggestions regarding what the United States can adopt after viewing the data.
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