• OECD: The PISA report freezes data from Spain on Reading because at least 5% of students did not respond rigorously

The Community of Madrid has asked the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to withdraw all the results of the PISA report , not only those of Reading , but also those of Mathematics and Science , because "the whole test is contaminated" . The students, for example, were asked if the airplanes were built by dogs and answered yes. There are "errors of a considerable caliber," according to this autonomous community, one of which, but not the only one, where PISA acknowledges having detected "unlikely results."

Reading data is "absolutely wrong", said Friday at a press conference the Minister of Education , Enrique Ossorio . They have detected at least three problems. The first thing that has happened is that the Reading data is "the star" of the report in this edition and the Community of Madrid denounces that these results affect everyone else. "There are students who have not done the Mathematics and Science tests and those who do not have the grade estimated by means of a series of variables, one of which is the Reading results," he explained. Thus, of 5,016 students who took the test, 59.5% did not take the Mathematics test or the Science test, so their mark has been estimated thanks to the "contaminated" Reading results.

Second, the Ministry of Education has discovered problems in examiners hired by the Ministry . In May the test was applied and, in the Community of Madrid, there were nine groups of examiners, which were distributed by the institutes. They suspect that one third of these groups must have given confusing instructions to the students because some of these groups present 30% of errors compared to others who only committed 6.8% of failures.

Thirdly, there are 70 students in the Community of Madrid who did not take the exam and who have been scored directly with a zero, which "has lowered the average powerfully" of the Community of Madrid. Also the dates of preparation of the exam are wrong, as they were made in 2018 and says they were made in 2017. "This is only the tip of the iceberg," said Ossorio, who claims that it was thanks to the findings discovered by his technicians by what the OECD decided to quarantine the Reading results. Now they ask that all data be paralyzed.

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