Education specialists from Moldova and Romania analyzed the results of the international assessment PISA-2015, revealed by studies carried out by scholars of Soros Foundation Moldova, and formulated proposals for modernizing the national education system, IPN reports.
Soros Foundation Moldova Education Project Director Ana Koretski in a roundtable meeting said there are not many researchers preoccupied with educational polices in our area. In this connection, there was launched a new direction to improve educational policies by encouraging young researchers to include educational policies in their areas of interest.
Deputy Minister of Education Elena Cernei said the challenges confronting the education sector of Moldova are rather serious. “Since 2014, we have had a new Education Code that we should implement until 2018. That’s why the necessity of working out different methodologies and regulations by which we could ensure high-quality education is evident. The fact that the Ministry of Education has a National School Inspectorate, which didn’t exist earlier, is also a challenge,” stated Elena Cernei.
Octavian Ticu, a member of the Council of Education Experts of the education project of Soros Foundation Moldova, said the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU offered the possibility of Europeanizing the education system of Moldova. However, the school failed to create a homogenous society in Moldova as the largest part of the population continues to be divided in terms of language and identity and this is a very serious thing. The PISA program is an extraordinary occasion for generating suggestions for educational practices and policies based on the results achieved by Moldova and this shows the country’s position compared with other states.
The Program for International Students Assessment (PISA) is an international assessment that measures 15-year-old students’ reading, mathematics, and science literacy every three years. First conducted in 2000, the major domain of study rotates between reading, mathematics, and science in each cycle. PISA also includes measures of general or cross-curricular competencies, such as collaborative problem solving. Moldova already applied for the next testing stage, PISA 2018.
