Education - Pisa shock for pupils: Ministry: "No surprise"
The historically poor performance of German pupils in the international performance study Pisa 2022 is "no surprise" in the view of the Hessian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs. Other educational studies conducted at the same time had also come to similarly sobering conclusions, the state authority in Wiesbaden told the German Press Agency on Tuesday. The Pisa data was collected immediately after the long corona school closures, "which were much more drastic in Germany than in other countries".
According to the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, this is compounded by an "increasingly heterogeneous student body, particularly in Germany, due to immigration - very often from educationally disadvantaged families." In Hesse, for example, 1,000 additional children and young people are currently entering schools every month due to refugees and immigration. This is an enormous burden and challenge which, despite the great work of the teachers, cannot always be fully absorbed and compensated for with support measures.
This time,Germany's pupils performed worse than ever before in Pisa - both in reading and in mathematics and science. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced in Berlin on Tuesday that the average performance also fell drastically internationally. Pisa stands for "Programme for International Student Assessment" and is the largest international school performance comparison study. It measures the skills of 15-year-olds in reading, math and science.
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Source: www.stern.de
