PISA 2025: While Türkiye increases its scores in 3 areas, the decline continues in Europe

The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 evaluation, which measures the knowledge and skills of students in 91 countries and economies of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), revealed that there was a decline in educational performance in Europe, especially the decline in mathematics and reading areas.

The report of the PISA 2025 evaluation, in which 760 thousand 15-year-old students participated in OECD countries and economies, has been published.

Accordingly, while it was observed that the decline in student performance in OECD countries continued and the lowest averages were recorded in the fields of mathematics and reading, it was noteworthy that Türkiye increased its average score in all measured fields of mathematics, science and reading.

Türkiye, unlike European countries, increased its scores in all 3 areas

In PISA 2025, the OECD average in science field performance was 482 points, the average of all countries was 443, and the average of Türkiye was 494 points. Türkiye, which increased its score by 18 according to PISA 2022 in this field, was above the average of all countries and OECD member countries.

Compared to PISA 2022 in the field of reading skills, although there was a decrease in the average scores of OECD member countries and all countries in the PISA 2025 application, there was a 16 point increase in Türkiye's average score compared to 2022.

In the field of mathematics, although there was a decrease in the average mathematics scores of OECD countries and all countries compared to PISA 2022, Türkiye increased its average score by 9 points.

A significant decline was noted in European countries

Slovakia was the only European country to increase its score in all three areas according to PISA 2022. In addition to Slovakia, Estonia, England, Austria, Lithuania and Italy also increased their scores in science.

In European countries other than these countries, while there was a decrease in scores in all areas of science, reading and mathematics, especially sharp declines in reading and mathematics attracted attention.

In science, Finland dropped 7 points, Switzerland 1, Ireland 4, Poland 4, Czech Republic 7, Belgium 1, Germany 7, Netherlands 3, Slovenia 16, France 4, Portugal 3, Hungary 6, Denmark 16, Spain 7, Sweden 8, Croatia 6, Norway 8, Latvia 25, Malta 13, Iceland 6, Greece 7 and Romania 3 points.

In the field of reading, Estonia 12, Finland 16, Switzerland 13, Ireland 16, Poland 7, Czech Republic 20, Belgium 13, Germany 15, Lithuania 8, Netherlands 18, Slovenia 24, France 18, Romania 16, Italy 7, Portugal 15, Bulgaria 18, Austria 13, Hungary 21, Denmark 29, Spain 23, Croatia 22 points, Norway 24 points, Latvia 45 points, Iceland 14 points, Greece 16 points and Sweden 21 points.

The decline in European countries in mathematics, PISA's other research area, also attracted attention.

Estonia 2, England 1, Finland 15, Switzerland 9, Ireland 12, Austria 10, Poland 5, Czechia 10, Belgium 10, Germany 11, Lithuania 5, Netherlands 9, Slovenia 25, France 16, Spain 16, Italy 3, Bulgaria 12, Portugal 12, Hungary 13, Denmark 19, Croatia 8, Norway 17, Latvia decreased by 23 points, Malta by 27 points, Iceland by 9 points and Sweden by 18 points.