Mathematics Literacy
Level 6 (Score above 669)
Students at this level can:
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Conceptualize, generalize, and utilize information based on their investigations and modeling of complex problem situations.
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Link different information sources and representations and flexibly translate among them.
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Do advanced mathematical thinking and reasoning.
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Apply insight and understanding along with mastery of symbolic and formal mathematical operations and relationships to develop new approaches and
strategies for dealing with novel situations.
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Formulate and precisely communicate their actions and reflections regarding their findings, interpretations, arguments and appropriateness of these to the original
situations.
Level 5 (Score between 607 and 669)
Students at this level can:
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Develop and work with models for complex situations, identifying constraints and specifying assumptions.
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Select, compare, and evaluate appropriate problem-solving strategies for dealing with complex problems related to these models.
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Work strategically using broad, well-developed thinking and reasoning skills, appropriate linked representations, symbolic and formal characterizations, and insight pertaining to these situations.
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Reflect on their actions and formulate and communicate their interpretations and reasoning.
Level 4 (Score between 545 and 607)
Students at this level can:
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Work effectively with explicit models for complex concrete situations that may involve constraints or call for making assumptions.
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Select and integrate different representations, including symbolic ones, linking them directly to aspects of real-world situations.
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Use well-developed skills and reason.
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Construct and communicate explanations and arguments based on their interpretations, arguments and actions.
Level 3 (Score between 482 and 454)
Students at this level can:
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Execute clearly described procedures, including those that require sequential decisions.
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Select and apply simple problem-solving strategies.
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Interpret and use representations based on different information sources and reason directly from them.
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Develop short communications reporting their interpretations, results and reasoning.
Level 2 (Score between 420 and 482)
Students at this level can:
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Interpret and recognize situations in contexts that require no more than direct inference.
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Extract relevant information from a single source and make use of a single representational mode.
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Employ basic algorithms, formulae, procedures, or conventions.
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Reason and make literal interpretations of the results.
Level 1 (Score between 358 and 420)
Students at this level can:
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Answer questions involving familiar contexts where all relevant information is present and the questions are clearly defined.
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Identify information and to carry out routine procedures according to direct instructions in explicit situations.
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Perform actions that are obvious and follow immediately from the given stimuli.
Reading Literacy
Level 5 (Score above 625)
Students at this level are capable of completing sophisticated reading tasks, such as:
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Managing information that is difficult to find in unfamiliar texts.
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Showing detailed understanding of such texts and inferring which information in the text is relevant to the task.
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Evaluating critically and building hypotheses, drawing on specialized knowledge, and accommodating concepts that may be contrary to expectations.
Level 4 (Score between 553 and 625)
Students are capable of solving complex reading tasks, such as:
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Locating embedded information.
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Construing meaning from nuances of language.
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Critically evaluating a text.
Level 3 (Score between 481 and 552)
Students are capable of solving reading tasks of moderate complexity, such as:
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Locating multiple pieces of information.
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Making links between different parts of a text.
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Relating it to familiar everyday knowledge.
Level 2 (Score between 408 and 480)
Students are capable of solving basic reading tasks, such as:
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Locating straightforward information.
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Making low-level inferences of various types.
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Working out what a well-defined part of a text means and using some outside knowledge to understand it.
Level 1 (Score between 335 and 480)
Students are capable of completing only the least complex reading tasks, such as:
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Locating a single piece of information.
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Identifying the main theme of a text.
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Or making a simple connection with everyday knowledge.
Science Literacy
Since science literacy has not been a highlighted subject in PISA achievement levels have
yet to be created.
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