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title: Milestones PISA 2025
url: "https://www.zib.education/en/pisa/pisa-2025/milestones-pisa-2025/"
date: 2025-10-31
modified: 2026-02-19
lastUpdated: 2026-02-19
categories:
  - PISA 2025
  - PISA
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# Milestones PISA 2025

13.03.2025- PISA
- PISA 2025

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  Milestones PISA 2025
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 This page provides an overview of the key stages and milestones in PISA 2025. The entire project timeline is documented here, including both processes which have been completed and milestones still to come.

   Apr 22 - Jan 23
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 ### Item Review

Review of the framework and the new science items; item review for the innovative domain Learning in the Digital World (LDW) and for the context questionnaires

  Mar - Okt 23
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 ### Translation

Translation of the new science items and questionnaires from the OECD source languages (English, French) into German

  Jun - Oct 23
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 ### Reconciling and Verification

Reconciling und Verification

  Okt 23 - Mar 24
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 ### Sampling

Sampling for the field test in spring 2024

  Dec 23 - Mar 24
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 ### Approval

Approval procedure for the PISA field test materials in the selected federal states

  Apr - Jul 24
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 ### Feld test

Conduct of the field test for PISA 2025

  Jul - Dec 24
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 ### Data Management

Analysis of the field test data

  Oct - Dez 24
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 ### Main Study Review

Renewed review and revision of the test questions and questionnaires

  Sep - Oct 24
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 ### School Sampling

Sampling of schools for the PISA 2025 main study

  Oct 24 - Jan 25
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 ### Student Sampling

Sampling of students

  Nov 24 - Feb 25
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 ### Approval

Approval procedure for the PISA materials by the 16 federal states

  March 2025
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 ### Main Study

Conduct of the main study at around 260 schools with a total of approximately 10,600 students

  May 25 - July 26
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 ### Data Management

Submission and verification of the dataset as well as preliminary analysis of the main study

  Mar - August 26
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 ### PISA 2025 National Report

PISA 2025 national report: design and preparation of the national report, writing phase, transfer of data to the publisher, several rounds of proof corrections, and printing

  September 2026
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 ### PISA 2025 Results

Publication of the PISA 2025 results at a press conference in Berlin

  Expected Dec 26
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 ### School Feedback Reports

Dispatch of individual feedback reports to those schools that took part in the main study in 2025

  Expected May 2027
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 ### Innovative Domain

Publication of the results for the innovative domain in PISA 2025 (Learning in the Digital World, LDW)