The results obtained from the 2022 OECD-PISA survey confirm the adequate preparation of 15-year-olds in Trentino, as a result of the effectiveness of the entire previous educational pathway, while highlighting some aspects on which further work needs to be done. This is, in short, the picture that emerges for Trentino from the eighth PISA survey, the international student assessment programme.
"The periodic surveys on learning and the skills acquired by students have the merit of bringing the true mandate of school systems, i.e. the quality of learning, back to the centre of attention," commented the President of the Province Maurizio Fugatti on the sidelines of the presentation. "From an initial analysis of the data at our disposal, our educational system is holding up. Nevertheless, I believe it is also necessary to start from this evidence in order to orient school policies, in concert with the many components in the field, as a priority for the action that will characterise the new legislature'.
The PISA survey, presented yesterday in Rome for Italy, took place in the spring of 2022, with a one-year delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the skills surveyed covered reading and text comprehension, mathematics and science, with a specific focus on mathematics. In 2022, the cognitive domains of financial literacy and creative thinking were also surveyed, the results of which will be available in 2024.
In Trentino, the survey was particularly accurate, involving a representative sample of 1,999 students, out of the slightly more than 5,000 15-year-olds surveyed, distributed among the various addresses (Licei, Technical Institutes, Professional Institutes, Vocational Education and Training).
The average scores recorded in the province are higher than the national averages in all three subject areas tested: 494 versus 482 in reading; 491 versus 471 in mathematics; 495 versus 478 in science. Overall, these data are in line with the results in the North East, although there is a slight drop in reading (494 against 505) and in science (495 against 504), while in mathematics the deviation does not appear significant.
Publication date: 06/12/2023
