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Updated Tuesday, April 2, 2024-00:54

Implementing

a student evaluation system that allows the school level to be calibrated homogeneously throughout the national territory

would contribute to putting a stop to the alarming decline in education in Spain. If education in our country has a historical problem of lack of political consensus - reproduced in the Lomloe, currently in force, which was approved without broad-based support -,

the absence of a single test prevents cross-checking data on a national scale

and, consequently, unified

ar the measures to be adopted. Faced with this, as we reported in our

Foreground

, this year an analysis will be undertaken by autonomies that will not allow the results to be standardized.

Around one million Spanish students aged 10 and 14 - all except those from the Basque Country, which at least in this call will continue with its own evaluation system - will participate between April and June in Mathematics, Spanish Language and Foreign Language tests without academic effects for students.

The objective is to draw up a diagnosis of the school's situation, in addition to implementing plans to improve the quality of teaching.

. Being managed by the communities, these exams will be different, so they will not be used to make comparisons, as the OECD classification allows. The Government is preparing another common evaluation for 2025 or 2026 - the responsibility of which is the State - which will be carried out in the same way throughout Spain, which will facilitate comparison between regions. However, Education has not specified when it will begin to apply this test, which aspires to be a kind of national PISA report.

The Executive maintains a low profile due to its ties with nationalists and independentists

, opposed to external evaluations because they understand that they imply a recentralization of the curriculum.

In any case,

The latest PISA report highlighted the dire consequences of perpetuating the current model

. Although the results are partially attributable to the effects of school closures due to the pandemic, Spanish students fell in all areas and achieved the worst grades in history in Science and Mathematics. From a territorial point of view, there are regions that have plummeted, such as Catalonia, which lost 31 points in Mathematics since 2015, the equivalent of one and a half school years of delay; or the Basque Country, which dropped 25 points in Reading, which would be almost a course. The situation is unsustainable and requires a deep reflection on what is failing and what policies are necessary to not leave the most vulnerable population behind.

In addition to forging a great State agreement based on excellence and effort,

It is urgent to correct an undemanding system now

that does not correctly evaluate either teacher training or student results.

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