“I want to reassure all the students who saw the points – they are not necessarily final, they can change depending on how the task will be evaluated,” the minister told the members of the Seimas Education and Science Committee on Wednesday.
According to him, after the physics mid-term examination held last week, the ministry received many letters with complaints about incorrect tasks both from the teachers themselves, the association of subjects, and the students of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) gymnasium. According to G. Jakštos, the complaints are very detailed and reasoned.
The working group will assess how certain tasks correspond to the general education program and present conclusions by the end of the week. It was concluded on Tuesday. The group, according to the minister, must present solutions and proposals, “how those places, where it is possibly incorrectly formed, need to be resolved.”
“We can already see that there are tasks, as we say, with double punishment, related to each other – in one you get an answer, in the other you have to use the answer you already have. If the first one was wrong, the second one is automatically wrong too,” said the minister.
According to him, the system will enter the possibility of crediting the second problem if it was solved correctly, but the answer of the first problem was wrong.
“Once the decision is made that such answers must be counted, it will take time, the results will be available in a month, maybe longer. It will be necessary to reprogram to include other answer options. We are waiting for the commission’s conclusion and objective proposals so that students are not harmed”, said G. Jakštas.
According to G. Jakštos, the situation that has arisen “is not pleasant, but it is not unusual”, because it also happens in the education systems of other countries.
According to the minister, the inspection tasks are evaluated by three reviewers, but it is considered that their circle should be wider so that incorrect tasks occur less often.
On Wednesday, the 11th graders take the mid-term math test, and about 12,000 students take part in it. schoolchildren. So far, four tests have already taken place: native language, that is, Polish, as well as French, philosophy and physics.
According to the minister, the experiences of the interim inspections that have taken place are different. For example, in the Polish language test, almost half of the 800 test takers scored 35 or more out of 40 possible points, so students will come to the exam next year knowing that they have already scored the minimum required number of points to pass the exam. Such experiences exist among those who took the French exam.
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2024-04-16 07:42:25