Uzbekistan will participate in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for the second time in 2025. The World Bank will once again provide assistance, as announced by the World Bank press service.
Uzbekistan first joined the PISA study, organized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in 2022. The testing measured the abilities of 15-year-old students from over 80 countries to apply their knowledge and skills in three areas of literacy: reading, mathematics, and science.
The Ministry of Preschool and School Education (MPSE) of Uzbekistan ensured the participation of over 7,200 students from more than 200 schools in Uzbekistan in the PISA-2022 testing. Despite Uzbekistan's low assessment results, this experience helped identify issues in the school education system and initiate efforts to address them in order to improve the quality of education and students' performance, noted by the World Bank.
On April 30th, the MPSE, the National Research Institute for Professional Development and Teacher Training named after Avloni, the Republican Scientific and Methodological Center for Education Development, and the World Bank kicked off preparations for the PISA-2025 pilot testing, which will take place in Uzbekistan in May of this year.
During a two-day seminar at school No. 110 in Tashkent, education specialists will familiarize themselves with the methodology, tests, and online platform with questions that will be used to assess students' literacy within PISA-2025.
The seminar was attended by experts from the World Bank, including the head of the World Bank's office in Uzbekistan, Marco Mantovaneli.
The preparation and implementation of the PISA-2022 testing in Uzbekistan was carried out as part of the project "Support to Early Childhood Development," implemented by the MPSE with financial support from the World Bank amounting to $73.85 million. The project aims to improve the national preschool education system. The preparation for the PISA-2025 testing is also being carried out with the support of this project.
