These reviews contained analyses relating to four key issues: those relating to demographic changes; features of the PISA test across cycles; response patterns on the PISA test over time; and the methods used in PISA to estimate changes in achievement.
Comparing first-generation immigrant children's PISA 2000 test scores with first-generation immigrant children in the PISA 2009 test shows a remarkable increase of 40 points in the PISA test score.
In the most recent PISA test, it ranked 13th in mathematics, 8th in science and 7th in reading.
If so, the next PISA test in three years' time may show a bigger improvement in Chile.
Professor Robert Coe, of Durham University, said: "It is interesting that Pisa test results for the UK show little difference in maths, English and science for recent years.
Schools in your native Wales came out particularly badly in maths and science in the Pisa test results revealed this week.
This, at least, is the view of Andreas Schleicher, the "educational scientist" behind what is known as the Program for International Student Assessment, or the PISA test.
All told, some 510,000 high-school students participated in the latest PISA test, administered by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECDD) in Paris.
Mr Gove often cites the OECD's international PISA test results to argue that Britain's ever-rising exam pass rates are no cause for celebration.
In the 2003 PISA test the maths scores of second-generation Turks placed them more than two years behind their German contemporaries.
Education has to take account of this mutating work environment, even at age 15, says Andreas Schleicher, head of the O.E.C.D.'s indicators and analysis division, who helped draft the PISA test.
