Since 2012, PISA has included an innovative domain assessment in every cycle. The innovative domain assessments target interdisciplinary, 21st century competences, providing PISA countries/economies with a more comprehensive outlook on their students’ ‘readiness for life’.
These assessments drive innovation in PISA in several ways: by including competences beyond the core literacies of reading, mathematics and science in large-scale, international student assessment; and by fostering advances in how students are assessed. In forthcoming PISA cycles, the innovative domain assessments will target creative thinking (PISA 2022) and learning in the digital world (PISA 2025).
