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Germany: shock
Cyprus: anger
None had any discourse around what the PISA scores measure and if there's any problematisation warranted around the methodology etc. So, in the end, it just serves as a regular outrage topic for the news cycle, but because no-one understands what the scores mean, no-one can do anything about them.
Germany: shock
Eh, I'd rather say: Sighing acceptance. Everything is turning to shit here, infrastructure ages, new stuff gets stuck in planning hell, people elect nazis, a significant part of the population turns their back towards science, inflation lowers effective incomes, printing out a filled out PDF form is the epitome of digitalization. Of course the school system sucks as well, it fits the image. We're fucked.
For the people that care. The majority is happy voting against any progress and to just complain about kids these days being stupid or something.
In Germany it is all over the news. Mostly in shock about the poor ranking.
I mean, you could start by making words easier to read.
Edit: maybe that's not it, Poland is in front of you..
I'm more surprised that people are still surprised about that. It's been like that for as long as I can think and nothing was done to improve it.
We have tried nothing and we are all out of ideas.
Australia here. Hasn't made the news.
I am a little pissed, lol, because for example Germany is the only country which includes so called "Sonderschulen", special schools for disabled peoples. And I learned that some country's told some people to don't go to school in the test time.
So I think shouldn't be labeled as a "competition" but more like something to learn from other people and countries..
Do you think the countries that are more inclined to tell students that are behind to not show up to school have an education ethos that will hel long term?
It's ways good to compare but we should measure what's being compared too.
I live in Spain, in Catalunya precisely, and the community ranked pretty low compared to the others: https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20231205/pisa-2022-ranking-comunidades-autonomas/2464647.shtml
People mostly blame it in the lack of consideration for teachers, with teacher salaries being among the lowest in the country compared to other communities.
We are number 10 yet all newspapers made it sound like we are moving towards real life idiocracy when the next generation gets out of school.
Biggest surprise for me is Norway.
Yeah, there has been some news about the bad math results in particular.
It's been a discussion in Norway for a long time. Particularly interesting to me is the fact that high-school students in Norway typically appear to be equal to or above their peers, while the top university students seem to be world class, so somehow they seem to catch up in later studies.
Or, maybe the population is different. Haven't looked into it, but maybe Norway is more prone to make everyone, including weaker students, take the test. Would be interesting to know more about participation.
As a Canadian, being so high on the list kind of makes me sad for humanity. So many people are worse than us? We aren't exactly impressive, in my opinion.
βChinese Taipeiβ?
This refers to Taiwan.
I guessed as much, but the point stands: what kind of Winnie The Pooh bullshit is this?
The fact that they allow China to participate to study only from the well education parts should tell story how BS it is.
Mostly disappointed in how limited the study is for African countries
How come the UK is listed as one country when we have three different school systems?
The same goes for other countries. Germany, for example, has 16 different school systems. But I know from the media coverage that there is more detailed data. I think it's just to simplify the image.
Data is available for each system: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/dec/05/uk-pupils-science-and-maths-scores-lowest-since-2006-in-international-tests
We were really PISA'd off.
For Germany Iβm supprised that many here write shocked. That would have been ten years ago, nowadays we are in the acceptance phase.
Poland: not much surprise. These have just proved how the previous government destroyed education here.
Note: one of the first decision the new government is to make is a significant raise for teachers, but all the damages done over last 8 years won't be that easy to fix.
This doesnt seem right. Its all over the place. How reliable is the source?
It's a program managed by the OECD. The link to the program description is at the end of the OP.
I don't know why I've never been part of the study, but I couldn't find any reason why the schools I've been to weren't part of it
