This year, some 20,000 eighth graders took part in a new test of technological and engineering literacy. The computer-based test asked students to solve the kinds of problems used in real settings, ...

U.S. 15-year-olds scored above average on a first-of-its-kind international assessment that measured creative problem-solving skills. However, their mean scores were significantly lower than those ...

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Samuel Greiff receives funding from BMBF (Germany), European Union, FNR (Luxembourg), and OECD. He has been involved in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as an external advisor ...

In a testament to America’s best schools, many of them in the Bay Area, U.S. students scored slightly above average in 2012 international tests in problem solving — and performed significantly better ...