| PISA 2009 field trial | Spring 2008 |
| School recruitment for the main study | September 2008 - present |
| U.S. Steering Committee meeting | October 2008 in Washington, DC: Discussion of frameworks and instrument items |
"PISA Comes to Your School"
PISA 2009 summer school conference | June 25-26, 2009 in Washington, DC: Representatives from participating schools attend a two-day informational conference on PISA |
| U.S. data collection | Fall 2009 |
| Data processing and analysis | Scoring, data entry, and data cleaning and verification places conducted after data collection. Analysis of results follows. |
| PISA 2009 results | December 2010: Release of PISA international and U.S. national reports. |
