Questions about the Reading PISA poster

What’s on the Reading PISA poster?

10 entries in 2 groups. PISA samples 15-year-olds across countries on applied literacy and numeracy. It can tell you: Rough standing of a cohort at 15, Distribution of results within a c…; It cannot tell you: Which policy caused a country's position, That copying a system w…. Educational reference. Rankings are cross-sectional and correlational. Policy borrowing from a high scorer ignores everything else about that country.

Who is the Reading PISA poster for?

Reading PISA belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning policy & systems can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Reading PISA poster?

Read it whenever a country's ranking is used to argue for a specific reform. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Reading PISA belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Reading PISA?

Accountability, Class Size and Who Decides The Curriculum sit alongside Reading PISA in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AccountabilityClass SizeWho Decides The Curriculum

Is the Reading PISA poster free to download and print?

Yes. Reading PISA downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Reading PISA poster print at?

Reading PISA is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Reading PISA loses nothing.Printing guide