The educational units that obtained an average below 7 in the simulation of the 2024 National Assessment will have a dedicated intervention plan, which will be monitored through the inspection process, announced Ligia Deca, the Minister of Education.
Ligia Deca, the first statements and solutions after the simulation results – Photo Archive
Almost 60% of the students who took the math test during the simulation of the National Assessment failed to get a grade 5. In Romanian, the situation is less dramatic: 26% of the students got grades below 5.
Ligia Deca conveyed that the Ministry of Education will have “time to intervene until the National Assessment“, according to Euronews Romania.
“We will also require that every school with an average result below 7 has a dedicated intervention plan, so that we can also monitor this plan through the inspection process“, said the Minister of Education.
For the first time, the Ministry of Education has provided data for each individual item after the papers have been digitally corrected. This is how it was observed that almost 75% of the students did not manage to get a single point in subject III, geometry, but also what other types of subjects put eighth grade students in difficulty.
“I think for any kind of progress we need to know how we stand. For the first time, we were able to have the results down to the level of each assessment item. Now we know which are the areas, in each school, for each child, that need a remedial intervention. We have time to make interventions until the National Assessment and we have time to evaluate which are the areas that, through the teaching-learning process, are not sufficiently well understood by the students. I think it is a first step for everything that means the students' mathematical skills to be improved“, adds Ligia Deca.
Moreover, the Minister of Education mentioned that there will be discussions with the students and the family, in each educational unit, being asked what are the measures that the Ministry of Education will adopt until the National Evaluation. At the same time, at the level of the county school inspectorates, a report related to the performance in each county will be made:
“First of all, I requested, when we made the synthetic results public at the national level, that each school organize results discussion sessions in the chancellery, but also with each family, so that each student knows what he did well, what he did not do well and what he needs to recover.
Also, we will ask each general school inspector to make a county report on the performance in each county together with the team. I have seen that some inspectorates have already succeeded in this. In Iasi, we have nuanced results, opposite to, I know, the performance depending on the environment, depending on the type of school and so on.
We will also require that every school with an average result below 7 has a dedicated intervention plan, so that we can also monitor this plan through the inspection process. We want to make the most of this remaining time, especially since we now know which areas we must insist on, say, for children“, the Minister of Education told Euronews.
