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In panhellenic exams very often, due to stress but also overestimated school grades, candidates score much lower than their school performance (photo: INTIME NEWS).
One in three high school and high school students excelled during the previous school year, 2019-2020. In fact, the number of excellent students has increased. However, it is questionable whether this positive news is due to the improvement in the level of the students. This is because almost always one in three high school graduates on the Panhellenic examinations has a below-base average. The increase in the number of excellent students is related to the fact that due to a pandemic, no written exams were taken at the end of the previous school year. More generally, the rise in excellent grades and the mismatch of school performance with that of the Pan-Hellenic exams sends messages about how students are assessed to the Ministry of Education, teachers, students and their parents.
Specifically, according to data from the Ministry of Education, during the last school year, students of excellence in high school and high school increased to 227,100 (in a total of about 680,000 students), from 181,790 in the 2018-2019 academic year. Additionally, the Progress Awards increased from 51,250 in the 2018-2019 school year to 53,180 in 2019-2020. Excellence is awarded to those students who have excelled, while Progress Awards are given to students in each department who achieve the highest degree of annual progress.
The increase in excellent students is disproportionate to the performance of candidates on the Panhellenic exams, in which one in three has remained below average in recent years.
The reasons for the discrepancy are many. Initially, the eruption during the previous year is also due to the fact that in June there were no written promotions and final exams, so the average number of students in each subject is extracted solely on the basis of oral grades, which in most of the cases are higher. of writings. This is because children in the classroom work with less stress than written tests. However, this also indicates a lack of credibility in the way teachers evaluate and rate students. There are, therefore, many excellent performances, some of which are the result of teacher indulgence or even parental pressure for… 20 aces.
All of this has an imprint on the Pan-Hellenic exams, where very often, due to stress but also overestimated school grades, candidates score much lower than their school performance. On the other hand, however, the improvement in performance has begun from 2015-2016, when the courses that were written in the promotion and graduation exams of Baccalaureate and Baccalaureate were reduced, from 12, 13 or 14 (according to the class), to four. Starting this year, the courses examined have increased, while a drop in performance is expected caused by the institution of the Subject Bank, from which half of the subjects will be selected and the rest by the class teacher. . OLME opposes Banco Tematica, as it stated again in the meeting it held with the ministry’s leadership on Thursday afternoon.
