Demanding: Students from all over Germany at a national final of the Math Olympiad. Only the most talented students at the top of the list, which is particularly narrow in Germany, are admitted.
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The latest study reveals an acute educational crisis: Germany is wasting the potential of generations because the group of weakest students is getting larger. A guest post.
vor two days ago, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published the results of the 2022 PISA survey. The performance of 15-year-old young people in reading, mathematics and natural sciences was tested in 83 countries or economic areas. The 2022 survey was accompanied by the Covid-19 pandemic, which led to longer school closures in many countries in 2020 and 2021 and further restricted the surveys in 2022. The large number of available national and international research results on the costs of the pandemic gave rise to fears that the school performance of 15-year-olds in PISA 2022 may have fallen everywhere.
The results presented last Tuesday confirm these fears. In OECD member states, mathematics performance fell on average by 17 points, reading performance by 11 points and science performance by 2 points between 2018 and 2022. While the loss in science is insignificant, students have lost a third of a school year in reading due to the pandemic and more than half a school year in mathematics. The findings are exactly in line with the results collected worldwide so far on the negative pandemic effects on the learning levels of children and young people.
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