7 out of 10 students did not reach basic levels in mathematics

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Evaluation in schools across the country

These assessments in the three knowledge areas were conducted in Argentina during September last year More than 12,000 15-year-old secondary school students from 457 public and private schools across the country.

Run these tests which are Every three yearsIt was supposed to be held in 2021, but due to the isolation conditions imposed by the pandemic, it was postponed to 2022.

he Argentine Observatory of Education He analyzed the national results released today by the OECD. He concluded that the country does not present significant changes in scores after the pandemic compared to 2018 numbers.

However, the authors of the NGO report, Martin Nestal, Eugenia Orlicki, Lier Saenz-Guillén, and Victor Vollmann, point out that Continued decline in academic performance.

Compared to the numbers obtained by the rest of Latin America, the country was as well After Chile, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru and Colombia In the three areas assessed, according to that report.

However, the National Ministry of Education highlighted that when taking the average of all countries in the region, Argentina is lower in mathematics, the same in reading, and higher in science.

What position was Argentina in?

Among the 81 countries and economies that participated in the assessments, according to the Observatory report, Argentina was ranked first 66th place in mathematics; in it 58, in readingAnd in 60, in science.

In 2018, it ranked 63rd in reading; In the 71 in mathematics And ranked 65th in science. Lower levels in the first two cases compared to 2012, when the country ranked 58th in reading and 57th in mathematics and remained in the same position in science.

Argentina scored 378 points in the 2022 test, one point lower than in 2018 and about 100 points lower than those obtained by OECD countries on average. Thus, it ranks 66th out of 81. If this world is limited to Latin America, it ranks 8th, as in 2018, surpassing Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic. Peru, which was eighth in 2012, reached fourth place last year, beating Chile, Uruguay and Mexico.

Source A24.com