in to assess students preparedness for this pisa carried out the worlds first international assessment of collaborative problemsolving skills defined as the capacity of students to solve problems by pooling their knowledge skills and efforts with others the same holds across countries topperforming countries in pisa such as japan korea and singapore in asia estonia and finland in europe and canada in north america also come out on top in the pisa assessment of collaborative problem solving there are countries where students do much better in collaborative problem solving than one would predict from their performance in the pisa science reading and mathematics assessments