2023-12-06 19:30:30
This is the first conclusion of this PISA 2022 survey. It first reveals “a significant and unprecedented drop in the average results of OECD countries in mathematics between 2018 and 2022 (minus 17 points)”. In the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the reduction observed is 21 points since the last evaluation in 2018.
However, with a score of 474, the result of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation is up to the OECD average (472), its performance being equivalent to that of countries such as Germany and France.
Isabelle Demonty, researcher in Evaluation and quality of teaching in mathematics at ULiège, confirms the weight of the coronavirus crisis on these results: “The learning loss following Covid was more significant in areas such as mathematics. The health crisis was notably managed in schools through hybrid teaching. And it is not easy to carry out courses like mathematics at home.
Furthermore, this decline impacts both the weakest students (their proportion increases by 5%) and the strongest (at the same time, their proportion decreases by 5%).
If this reduction seems significant, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation is doing better than its border neighbors or other communities: “We lose much less than the Netherlands, the Flemish Community, Germany, France in certain respects, the German-speaking Community”, explains Professor Ariane Baye, Doctor of Educational Sciences and Director of the AIDE service (Analysis, Intervention in the areas of dropout and teaching) at ULiège. “So our system ultimately showed itself to be relatively resilient, compared to this very particular cycle”. The structural measures taken before the coronavirus crisis can in particular explain this trend.
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