After an announcement by Rodrigo Chaves to eliminate them completely, the Ministry indicates that it will ask the Superior Council of Education to reform them. Those of June and July will ask to cancel them.
The Ministry of Public Education will propose to me to keep the FARO tests as a diagnostic tool, without value in the final grade of the students, in a different line from the one indicated by the President of the Republic Rodrigo Chaves, when announcing their total elimination.
“The modification of the Learning Evaluation Regulation will be proposed to the CSE (Higher Council of Education), so that the tests applied in November and December 2021 are used as a diagnosis, without affecting the final grade of the students,” indicates a statement this afternoon’s press release issued by the MEP.
In this document, the education sector authorities add that they will propose to the CSE the cancellation of the tests called for June and July for primary and secondary students.
The Ministry, under the direction of Minister Katharina Müller, explained that it is in the process of a “comprehensive review” of the tests to present the results to the Higher Council of Education, which indicates that it recognizes its authority in the matter.
On Saturday, during a tour of the northern part of the country, Rodrigo Chaves spoke more categorically: “The decision has been made, there will be no FARO tests this year,” he assured.
The FARO tests were released in 2021 as a replacement for the high school tests applied in the last three decades, but they received strong questions for their apparent reduced usefulness, for their relevance in the context of the educational crisis, for their format and for having a service to collect data. sensitive related to the socioeconomic condition of the students’ homes.