OECD PISA Databases
oecd.org/pisa
Raw survey data behind the international student assessment rankings. The country reports and technical PDFs are the most notebook-friendly entry point.
PISA is the source behind most country-ranking headlines in education coverage, and the raw survey data plus technical documentation here let a notebook check what the test measured instead of relying on a news summary of the rankings. The country reports and technical PDFs are far more approachable than the raw microdata, which needs statistical software to work with directly. Since PISA tests 15-year-olds specifically, be careful not to let a notebook generalize its findings to an entire education system.
Import into Gemini Notebook
- 1Copy the link above (or a specific page from the site).
- 2In your notebook, click Add source → Website.
- 3Paste the link and confirm — several links can be pasted at once, one per line.
Survey and study sites often gate the raw dataset — the summary report or working-paper PDF is what actually imports as a source.
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