Education

PISA study: school failure remains a Problem

Despite improvements, the number of Dropouts in Germany are dramatically high. According to a new analysis of the PISA data, one-fifth of fifteen-year-old even the simplest of tasks not to solve.

In Germany, despite some progress, further efforts are still necessary, in the proportion of very getting low-achieving students continues to decrease. To this end, the organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD) in a special report to the PISA-Schulstudie from the year 2012. As before, the social Background of young people in this country is an important risk factor for poor school performance.

140 000 fifteen-year-old in Germany reached in the aforementioned study in the subject of mathematics is at best the level of competence 1, nearly 70,000 Tested were weak in all three PISA-Vergleichsfeldern (math, science, reading, and comprehension). “Competence level 1 – this is really the most challenges,” said OECD Chefkoordinator Andreas Schleicher.

Andreas Schleicher, OECD Chefkoordinator

“There is a relatively high proportion of pupils that not even this most elementary level.” The OECD divided the Ability of students in levels between 0 and 6. However, was the area of the Problemschüler “a field, where in Germany, some things have moved,” said the often-called “PISA-Pope” designated educational researchers Schleicher. And this is also measurable.

Improvements, but no breakthrough

Not only in Germany, there have been improvements, for example in mathematics. Also countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Tunisia and Turkey have made progress in this area attests. The experts interpreted this as evidence that all countries, regardless about of its economic power the performance of the students can improve. So went in Germany, the share of math-Weak between PISA 2003 and 2012 by four percentage points to 18 percent in reading/comprehension at eight points to 14 percent. In the natural Sciences changed, however, since 2006, nothing more to the Positive, the Problemschüler share was still 12 percent. Anyway: The OECD-average, the German PISA students of 15 years ago overall, hardly had reached, was 2012 of around five percentage points higher.

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Faint marks at school were “not the result of a single risk factor, but a combination of several obstacles and disadvantages”, this is the conclusion of the OECD study. Therefore, there will also be several setscrews: Schleicher called early childhood education, an early performance analysis of binding educational standards, more all-day schools, more intensive training and education for teachers. The OECD Spitzenränge be for Germany, despite all the progress, still far away, says Schleicher. Especially the Chinese region Shanghai or Singapore, could serve as role models: “Which manages to attract the best talent for the teaching profession to win.” So would deficits are also at risk pupils, with a difficult social Background is significantly minimized.

bri/sti (afp, dpa)