International learning achievement survey ``Mathematics, reading comprehension, science'' lower than Japan = South Korea

It has been revealed that South Korea's rankings for 15-year-olds (junior high school and high school students) in mathematics, reading comprehension, and science are all lower than in Japan. COVID-19 virus pandemic
Despite the current situation, while continuing remote classes, all rankings in each area increased compared to the previous evaluation, but the rankings were lower than in Japan.
On the 5th, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) announced that the ``International Learning Achievement''
The results of the PISA 2022 survey were announced. PISA is an international comparative evaluation of mathematics, reading comprehension, and science of students aged 15 (3rd year of middle school to 1st year of high school) and is conducted every three years. Of this time"
Approximately 690,000 students from 81 countries around the world (37 OECD member countries and 44 non-member countries) participated in PISA 2022. In South Korea, 6,931 middle and high school students from 186 schools were evaluated.
Ta. The evaluation results showed that South Korea was lower than Japan in all areas of mathematics, reading comprehension, and science. Based on the evaluation of only OECD member countries, South Korea ranks 2nd in mathematics (527 points) and 3rd in reading (515 points).
2nd place in science (528 points). On the other hand, Japan ranked first in mathematics (536 points), second in reading (516 points), and first in science (547 points).
In the ranking of all participating countries, South Korea was ranked 6th in mathematics, 4th in reading, and 5th in science. Japan ranks 5th in mathematics, reading comprehension
Korea came in third in power and second in science, outperforming Korea in both. Singapore, a non-OECD country, ranked first in mathematics, reading, and science.
This is the first time in 10 years that South Korea has ranked lower than Japan in PISA in mathematics, reading comprehension, and science.
It consistently outperformed Japan in at least one of the three areas. In PISA 2012, South Korea took 5th place in mathematics, two steps ahead of Japan (7th place).
In PISA 2015, South Korea beat Japan (8th place) in reading comprehension (7th place). At the time of PISA 2018, which is the latest evaluation result, South Korea ranked higher in mathematics (7th place) and science (7th place) than Japan (mathematics 6th place,
Japan ranked 5th in science), but ranked 9th in reading comprehension, six steps ahead of Japan, which was ranked 15th. However, in the current 2022 evaluation results, reading comprehension (4th place) also ranks lower than Japan (3rd place).
I found out that something is wrong. However, when compared with all participating countries, South Korea's rankings in all areas improved from the previous assessment (PISA 2018). Mathematics went from 7th place to 6th place, reading comprehension went from 9th place to 4th place,
Science rose from 7th to 5th place. An official from the Korea Curriculum Evaluation Institute analyzed, ``During the COVID-19 outbreak, the main effect was to continue education while expanding distance learning.''
In fact, in South Korea, the percentage of students at the top level in reading and science has increased, while the number of students at the bottom level has decreased. Upper level in reading comprehension
In science, the proportion of students at the upper level increased from 13.1% to 13.3%, and in science the proportion of upper-level students increased from 11.8% to 15.7%. On the other hand, students at the lower level had a reading comprehension rate of 15.1% to 14.7%.
Science decreased from 14.2% to 13.7%. This means that there are many countries where the percentage of students in the bottom ranks has increased because classes cannot be held due to school closures during the pandemic.
An official from the Ministry of Education (equivalent to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) said, ``Korea is using the last-minute assessment (PISA) in reading, mathematics, and science.
2018), the level of achievement has been maintained and the national ranking has increased.''
Based on these results, the Ministry of Education plans to accelerate digital-based education innovation, improving the competitiveness of public education, and measures to reduce the burden of private education.''