Assessment

TAO-Powered PISA 2025 Digital Assessment Programme Honoured for Global Delivery Across 91 Countries and Economies

The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), together with its platform partner Open Assessment Technologies (OAT), has been recognised at the 2026 e‑Assessment Awards for the delivery of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025.

ACER was invited to meet the Governor-General at a Sydney event earlier this month, in recognition of our music education survey of teachers and leaders.

Early learning lays the foundations for everything that follows in education. The skills children develop in the years before school shape how they engage with learning, how they manage challenges, and how they thrive as they move through school and life. 

Understanding how children learn and develop in the early years is central to supporting strong educational outcomes and lifelong wellbeing.

After a competitive tender process, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has appointed the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to lead the development and implementation of the 2029 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) across more than 90 countries and economies, once again entrusting the world’s largest international education survey to ACER, the 96-year-old Australian organisation.