Brazil Remains Among the Worst in the World in Educational Evaluation

12/07/2016 - 00h55

The world's primary evaluation of basic education reveals stagnation in the academic performance of Brazilian students, with results still continuing at very low levels.

The country remains among the worst in rankings compared to 69 other countries and territories.

This scenario was revealed by the 2015 edition of PISA, conducted by the OECD (Organizations for Economic Co-operation and Development, an entity composed of developed countries). The data was released on Tuesday, the 6th.

For the second consecutive edition, the scores of Brazilian students showed no advancement in the three areas evaluated: mathematics, reading and sciences.

The exam evaluates adolescents between 15 and 16 years old every three years.

The results reveal the interruption of a positive trend registered between 2000 and 2009. With the last evaluation result in 2012, the country celebrated a positive evolution in the previous decade, even though overall results were low and the advances had been modest.

Until this latest edition, Brazil was the country that had seen the highest growth in mathematics in the previous ten years under the PISA method of evaluation.

This time, more than 70% of Brazilian students didn't reach the second level (out of a scale of 6) in the evaluation.

The majority of Brazilian students were not able to recognize and interpret situations in contexts that demanded more than one direct inference, for example.

The OECD considers level 2 to be the minimum level for the adequate exercise of citizenship.

In the Sciences, chosen this year as the focus of the PISA evaluation, more than half of the Brazilian students (56,6%) didn't reach a sufficient level of performance to pass the second level.

The average decreased from 405 to 401 - revealing stagnation.

In reading, 51% of Brazilian students didn't even reach the second level. The average decreased from 410 to 407.

Translated by LLOYD HARDER

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