What is new in PISA for Development?

PISA for Development is making PISA more accessible and relevant to middle- and low-income countries. PISA-D is achieving its aim by introducing new features to the assessment, including tests that are specially targeted on lower levels of performance, contextual questionnaires that better reflect the situation of 15-year-olds in middle- and low-income countries and methods and approaches to incorporate out-of-school youth into the survey. PISA-D is also building the capacity of the eight participating countries to implement large-scale assessments and to make full use of the results in support of evidence-based policy and decision making.