'This report will look at the development of gender related issues during the years of childhood and adolescence and will: • consider briefly gender differences measured outside the PISAassessment programme: • review the knowledge gained about gender related issues from PISA2000 and PISA2003 when reading and mathematics respectively were the major domains of assessment, with attention also paid to the relationship between student performance and student attitudes: • consider in more detail the results from the most recent PISAsurvey, PISA2006, when science was the major assessment domain, considering also student attitudes to science and the environment.'