Moldovan pupils make progress in Programme for International Student Assessment 2018
14:34 | 03.12.2019 Category: Social
Chisinau, 3 December /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova has recorded an increase in the results achieved within the Programme for International Student Assessment 2018 (PISA 2018), against the last evaluation from 2015. The data was unveiled in Chisinau today.
Thus, following the assessment from 2018, Moldova got an average number of 424 points in reading (against 416 in 2015), 421 points in mathematics (unlike 420 in 2015) and 428 points in sciences – a result similar to the one recorded at the previous evaluation.
At the report’s presentation, the state secretary general of the Education, Culture and Research Ministry, Anatolie Topala, has said that Moldova, along with another 15 participating countries, had managed the performance not to decrease the average number of points at either of the three sectors against the PISA 2015. At the same time, Moldova is one of those seven states to register an increase in the results in each field and at each cycle of participation.
Nevertheless, the results of the pupils from Moldova remain worse than the average results for the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which is the programme’s initiator. Thus, the average of the OECD member countries is of 487 points in mathematics and sciences.
Moldova’s performances in 2018 are similar to the ones recorded by Romania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Chile or Uruguay. Singapore, Japan and Estonia are the leader countries in PISA 2018.
PISA represents an international comparative study initiated by OECD, the goal of which is to test the basic competences of 15-year-old pupils in three sectors: sciences, mathematics and reading. The testing assesses to what extent pupils who finish the compulsory education have got knowledge and essential key competences for an active involvement in the contemporary societies. As many as 612,000 pupils from 79 countries and economic regions of the world participated in the 2018 evaluation and 5,300 pupils from 236 institutions were tested in Moldova. The country participated in this programme for the third time.
