The Minister of Education, Daniel David, criticizes the current evaluation system of the eighth grade, considering that the national evaluation does not reflect the entire spectrum of skills that students should master. “It is correct to evaluate all the key skills”, says the minister.
Minister of Education, Daniel David. Photo: Mediafax
“I consider national assessments that they are not comprehensive, they are not informative enough. You cannot say, on the one hand, that you want to promote the eight key skills, and in the national assessments you do, you focus on two: mathematics and Romanian language and literature”, said the minister Monday, May 19, in a press conference, according to Agerpres.
Daniel David emphasizes the need to evaluate all key competences, in order to be able to obtain a real image on the progress of students, the efficiency of the schools and the performance of the teachers.
“With the other key skills what we do, they do not need some standardized assessments to know, they assimilated their children, they did not assimilate them, how to compare a school with another school, to know how the teachers behave, they are good in transferring those skills? And then I think it is correct to evaluate all the skills,” added the minister.
EU could reduce the number of key competences
Currently, the eight key skills at European level are: literacy skills, multilingual skills, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem), digital skills, personal and learning skills, citizen competences, entrepreneurial skills, sensitable competences.
However, Daniel David said that there are discussions at the European Union level to reduce these skills to five, but he believes that the subject must be publicly debated.
The Minister of Education also supports the idea that up to 50% of high school places are occupied by exams organized by educational units, but with a clear condition, “A methodology that limits the arbitrary and the incorrect things that can occur in this process.”
