With an important change in the method of examination, tests of a diagnostic nature will be carried out – the “Greek PISA”, as it is called, since it is organized in accordance with the standards of the international PISA. OECD competition– for my students 6th grade elementary school And 3rd grade high school in Modern Greek and Mathematics.

Students of the 6th primary and 3rd secondary schools, that is, children who have completed the cycle of education in the compulsory education system, participate in the national competition. Students are tested in Language And Mathematics. After the first year of the pilot application for the national competition last year, it was decided that students should also be asked open-ended questions from this year. And this is in order to more accurately capture the course of reasoning and the possibility of their written expression. Last year, the exam was conducted with only multiple-choice questions. So how said K. Senior official of the Ministry of Education, this year, in addition to the multiple-choice questions, there will be one open-ended question in language and two open-ended questions in mathematics.

The second change is a more rational distribution of questions according to the level of complexity in separate thematic axes.

Exams will take place on Wednesday 10 May and participation of selected school units is mandatory. It will be attended by 6th grade students from 300 primary schools in the country and 3rd grade students from 300 secondary schools across the country. The selected schools represent a representative sample of all schools in the country by level of education. The results are anonymous and are not taken into account by teachers when evaluating student performance in specific subjects.

The conclusion of the competent Scientific Committee of last year’s competition, which was presented exclusively by “K” (October 8, 2022), demonstrated the need to strengthen students’ critical thinking.

• With regard to the language course, it is considered necessary to reinforce the text-centric approach of the language course, emphasizing the pedagogy of polyliteracy and the importance of linguistic diversity and heterogeneity. Emphasis should be placed on the management and organization of information, on techniques for thickening discourse, on the use of deepening actions.

• Accordingly, there is a need for mathematics to consolidate basic mathematical concepts through the systematic practice of problem solving, and to strengthen mathematical reasoning and reasoning through shifts in teaching practice to include and connect mathematics with the real world.

The conclusion, among other things, involves reducing the material, changing its structure in each lesson, the correct distribution of subjects and focusing on the main thing, communication and comments in the lessons and on current affairs, cultivating students’ skills with modern teaching methods.

At the same time, of course, the leaders of the international PISA competition are expanding the topics under consideration, examining under a microscope how teenagers are able to cope with the challenges of the times. So how reported “K” yesterday PISA National Administrator and Harokopio University Professor Krissa Sophianopoulou, OECD at the next PISA competition in 2025, in addition to 15-year-olds’ skills in reading comprehension, science and mathematics, will also assess adolescents’ ability to learn in the digital world and knowledge of foreign languages.

Numbers

11000 students will take part in the Greek PISA competition.

42nd Greece was among the 77 countries in the international competition PISA in 2018 in terms of text comprehension.

43rd together with Cyprus in 78 countries in mathematics.

44th in 78 countries in the natural sciences.