Pearson UK and their partners, OUCEA at Oxford University and UCL have been commissioned to carry out the PISA 2025 study in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on behalf of their governments. We take data protection very seriously and follow the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Any personal information we collect will be held securely and no individual pupil or school will be identifiable in any report or publication. The National Centre (Pearson, OUCEA and UCL) will only hold the PISA data long enough to allow the analysis and reporting of the study after which they will delete the data from their systems.

The purpose of the study is to produce statistics on pupils’ learning and development, in order to learn more about how best to support pupils in mastering key subjects. We will collect information on what pupils have learnt from their answers to the PISA assessment questions. We will also ask pupils about their attitudes and motivations to help understand how they contribute to pupil performance. All data from the study will be pseudonymised (i.e., any details which could be used to identify pupils or their school will be removed and replaced with a code) and combined with responses from other pupils and schools taking part nationally and compared with results of pupils around the world. If there are any questions pupils do not wish to answer they may leave them blank.

See examples of the type of questions which are included in the PISA study