Canadian and United States Students: What about their problem-solving performance!

What is it about?

This article presents an overview of the OECD’s PISA 2012 Problem Solving assessment and why such an assessment is important to an economics-based organization. The assessment examined the capabilities of 15-year olds in 39 nations and 5 large international cities, as well as the Canadian Provinces, to solve a set of problems embedded in 16 contextualized situations.

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Why is it important?

The analyses provide interesting looks at differences in student capabilities and national profiles related to problem solving and, perhaps, curricular emphases on problem solving across the full school curriculum.