Nearly 20 thousand students of the 5th year of the secondary level were in a position to participate in the Learn 2019 assessment that took place on Tuesday. As reported by the Directorate General of Schools (DGE), attendance at educational establishments was approximately 90%, as was a normal school day. That is to say that they surrendered around 18 thousand young people.
The Learn 2019 operation, developed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of the Nation, evaluated the knowledge of the 5th year students of the 391 Mendoza high schools in Language and Mathematics. The exam consisted of 72 multiple-choice slogans and lasted 60 minutes.
In turn, this Wednesday a sample will be taken in the areas of Natural Sciences and Ethical and Citizen Education in 300 educational establishments in the country, 12 of which are located in the province and will cover approximately 1,125 local students.
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Celia Chaab, Deputy Director of Educational Quality Assessment of the DGE highlighted that the operation was carried out “with absolute normality” and highlighted: "We are over 90% attendance."
He also said that on Tuesday 100% of the schools included in the operation participated.
With respect to the expectations of this new edition, the DGE official said they focus on “being able to assess the level of performance of communication and problem-solving capabilities, which are the capacities on which it focuses” and added that They hope “to be better than in 2017, that would be our north”.
“We had an improvement of 2017 compared to 2016 in Mendoza and we expect those percentages to increase, we have worked for that, ”added Chaab.
Compared to 2016, during the Learn 2017, the percentage of students with Satisfactory and Advanced performance level was higher, reaching 65.8% compared to 60% of the previous assessment.
Meanwhile, in Mathematics the situation was similar. During 2017, the level of Satisfactory and Advanced performance of Mendoza students was 33.2% against 30.6% of the 2016 edition.
It is expected that the results of this Learn operation will be published by the second half of March 2020. In this way, the input is intended to be available to delimit provincial and national educational policies and for schools to carry out their annual planning and projections. .
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Regarding the students' response, Chaab highlighted the increased interest of Mendoza adolescents. “The culture of evaluation is being installed, there is no longer fear of rankings or impacts on the grade. They have understood that it is a way of democratic participation, they are part and they think with facts and not with words, ”he said.
He also added that this involvement of local youth also influenced due to the pilot test of the operation that took place in April in the province. On that occasion the young people were able to validate the instrument through criticism and contributions, where modifications were made that resulted in the final evaluation that was taken on Tuesday.
School climate
In addition to measuring knowledge in Language and Mathematics, Learning also evaluates the school climate through a questionnaire of associated factors, where young people can express their projections in the future, topics that they would like to deepen as well as aspects related to discrimination, bullying or grooming, among others.
In that sense, Chaab stressed that they are also consulted about Integral Sex Education (ESI), which issues they work on and which ones they would like to deepen or address.
He also emphasized academic self-concept as one of the keys to the development of an area. “It allows us to know qualitatively. It brings qualitative light to the quantitative results that the tests give you, allows us to contextualize the institutional reality of the children, ”said the education official.
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