2023-12-06 12:56:08
The latest results of the PISA testswhich the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development uses to measure students’ educational achievement, left the Argentina in 66th place out of 81 participants, in a ranking led by Singapore. In our country, the sample was made of 12 thousand 15-year-old students, in 460 schools.
For the Observatory of Argentines for Education, the worrying phase of the report is that seven out of 10 students cannot solve a basic mathematical calculation for their age, while in Language, 55% cannot find information or identify the main idea of a text. The country was below Chile, Uruguay, Costa Rica and Mexico.
Alarm in education: 7 out of 10 Argentine students do not reach basic levels in Mathematics
Besides, Less than one percent of students showed advanced results in Mathematics, which involves modeling complex situations, selecting, comparing and evaluating appropriate problem-solving strategies. “The students people with the highest socioeconomic level in the country perform like those with the lowest level in Turkey, the United States and France,” he compared Clarion Alejandro Ganimian, specialist in educational assessments at New York University.
He Ministry of Education He decided to focus the news from another angle. In a statement posted yesterday to National State portalrecalled that “The tests revealed a deterioration in the average scores in most countries and regions of the world in the three areas evaluated with respect to 2018.” In that sense, he pointed out that – after the pandemic – Argentina’s drop in reading was 0.8 points, while in Latin America it was eight. In Mathematics, two points were lost at the national level, but 15 at the regional level. And in Science there was an improvement of two points, against a drop of four in neighboring countries.
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Developed nations, especially the Nordic ones, also showed considerably lower yields than in 2018. At this point, the closure of schools during the isolation phase in Argentina seems not to have had the markedly negative impact that the opposition sought to install. And in another striking fact, the lowest-performing and lower-class students had a more favorable evolution than the highest-performing and more well-off students. Beyond concerns and inequalities, perhaps this is an opportunity to reaffirm the value of public education and its potential for progress.
JL
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