This report presents the initial results from the PISA 2009 assessment for Québec's 15-year-old students and compares their achievements with those of their counterparts in the rest of Canada and around the world.
The data are taken from the Canadian report entitled Measuring Up: Canadian results of the OECD PISA Study - The performance of Canada's youth in reading, mathematics and science - PISA 2009 first results for Canadians aged 15, which can be downloaded free of charge from the following Web sites: www.pisa.gc.ca/ 
and www.cmec.ca/ .