The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released, on Tuesday morning (12/03), in Paris, data from the step(International Student Assessment Program). In it, Brazil appears among the 22 worst placed in the international ranking.
In total, nearly 600,000 15-year-old students were assessed in 79 countries and territories. In Brazil alone, there were 10,691 students from 638 schools, totaling 2,036,861 people, which represents 65% of the country's population.
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The Pisa
Pisa is a test held every three years to measure the knowledge and skills in reading, mathematics and science of primary school students around the world.
Performed since 2000, the exam includes OECD member nations and guests, as is the case of Brazil. However, the 2018 application focused on reading.
In this edition, China represented by four provinces (Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang), ranked first in the world rankings of the three areas. And in the case of Brazil, the students' grades improved slightly.
Therefore, despite having been in worse positions, the country is in the 57th place in reading.
The numbers reflect the students' relationship with reading, as four out of 10 teenagers cannot identify the main idea of the text, reading graphs, solving integer problems, and understanding a science experiment simple.
overall result
Compared to the 2015 exam, when 70 countries and territories were evaluated, Brazil dropped from 63rd to 67th position in science. In discipline, the nation is ahead of countries like Kazakhstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, behind Uruguay, Chile and Thailand.
In mathematics, the drop was from 66th to 71st place, but surpassing Argentina, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Kosovo, Panama, Philippines and Dominican Republic.
In reading, the evolution was negligible. Brazil moved from the 59th to the 58th position, behind countries like Mexico and Romania.
The result shows another factor linked to student performance – investment in education. This is because the countries with the best performance in reading are the ones that apply the most in the area.
Perhaps you are interested: Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education (LDB) updated in 2019
