Standardised Tests

The International Schools' Assessment (ISA) is a programme initiated by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and designed specifically for international schools. The ISA assesses students in three areas of learning: Mathematical Literacy, Reading and Writing, using pencil and paper tests designed for Years 4 to 10.

Students at ISL participated for the first time in 2003.

In the results below, "Other like schools" refers to schools with a similar percentage of native English speakers to non-native English speakers. Our results were removed from the data when the statistics were calculated.

Year 7

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Year 8

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Year 9

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Year 10

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A world perspective

The ACER scoring scale is directly correlated to the PISA test designed for 15 year olds (Year 11). The PISA test has been administered twice throughout the world in the last four years. It does not contain the writing element that ACER provides, but does assess mathematical literacy and reading. The following tables are a comparison of the PISA results (2003) from countries of interest to our community and the ISL results of 2004.

While flattering, it should be noted that the PISA test was administered to whole populations, rather than to a small compressed socio-economic group of students in an international school.