The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released today (1st) the result of the International Program for the Evaluation of Students (Pisa) who tested the ability of 15-year-old students to solve logical reasoning problems related to practical situations of the daily. Brazil ranks 38th among the 44 countries that had their students' abilities assessed.
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Applied every three years and focused on reading, science and mathematics, Pisa evaluated 85,000 students and, for the first time, measured the ability to solve more elaborate problems of logic and reasoning. In Brazil, less than 2% of the evaluated students achieved maximum performance in solving problems. The OECD report records that, in the country, girls performed better than boys and that the student's socioeconomic status also has an impact on the result.
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The leading countries in the OECD ranking are Singapore, South Korea and Japan. The last three positions are occupied by Uruguay, Bulgaria and Colombia.
In the tests, students performed tasks on an MP3 player, they had to use the remote control of a video player. air conditioning to control temperature and humidity conditions and simulate buying a train ticket on a keyboard touch sensitive.
In December of last year, the OECD had released Pisa 2012 results that show that among the 65 countries compared, Brazil ranked 58th in student performance in the three areas of knowledge assessed.
Yara Aquino – Reporter at Agência Brasil