In the PISA test (Program for International Student Assessment) of 2022the young mexicans last degree of secondary and first of baccalaureate They were 126 points below Japan (best evaluated country) and only six above Colombia (last place) in math, reading comprehension and science.
That Mexico was the third worst evaluated country upset both the President López Obrador who made this unfortunate comment (last December) upon learning the results:
“We don’t even take them into account because all those parameters were created at the time of the predominance of neoliberal period…”.
In the test that is carried out every three years and coordinated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and DevelopmentMexico has participated since 2000 and these days everything indicated that it would not do so in 2025 due to the presidential disqualification because, he said AMLOorganizations like the OECD “They supposedly wanted to promote the quality of teaching, excellence, and disappear public education, degrading it.” In Mexico, teachers were never offended like in that period, “and those tests are part of the same thing…”.
Given the uncertainty that prevailed, I spoke for El assault… on MILENIO tv this Monday and Tuesday with researcher Marco Antonio Fernández, specialized in educational matters from Mexico Evalúa and professor at the Tecnológico de Monterrey.
He recalled that the OECD groups 38 countries, but 81 participated in the 2022 test and there will be ten more in 2025. He told me that Mexico’s very low place is due to the lack of interest in the pedagogical updating of teachers:
“This government said it was going to re-dignify the teaching profession, but it has cut 83 percent of the budget for teacher courses. This year there are 195 pesos per year per primary, secondary and upper secondary teacher for their training…”
For last night’s broadcast, my interviewee expressed:
“Hopefully one of the few real journalists who go in the morning will raise his hand and ask the president if the PISA test will be taken or not…”
Coincidence or fate? (Eugenio Derbez’s character said), that is what reporter Diego Elías Cedillo did yesterday:
–Various international organizations and also here have expressed their concern about Mexico’s participation in the PISA test, whether it will participate by 2025.
The response was clear and surprising:
“Yes, we participated without any problem. In other words, everything that has to do with education is supported. I’ve been seeing that, that they talk about how we’re not going to participate, but yes. I don’t know what it is…
–It is a pilot test.
“Yes, I know, but it is not accepted now…” His spokesperson Jesús Ramírez explained: “The evaluation committee said that it did not correspond to the new educational system, that they would not be able to evaluate, but they are working on it.”
The president commented:
“Ah, well, yes. But we do accept it and we are open to all evaluations. We are open until (for) the studies they did on the management of the pandemic…”
@CarlosMarin_soy
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