The quality of education
Argentina has 97% access to school for children of that age, a figure that makes us proud, since it is the clearest proof that the educational system in the country, as universal and free, works. However, the problem is not in quality but in quality, where at the regional level it is far behind.
Leyre Sáenz GuillénAE data analyst spoke with Ambit to deepen the work carried out together with Martín Nistal, Eugenia Orlicki and Victor Volmanwhich offers a panorama of the crossroads at which the education national for years.
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“We created the Educational Outcomes Index (IRE) in 2022 to measure the quantity and quality of learning, where we join both indices. If we look at these indices, we are in 6th place out of the 8 countries evaluated at work,” he explained. Saenz Guillen.
“In access to the education We are fine and it is a positive thing that the boy is in the classroom. However, in terms of quality we are going down,” the specialist warned and added: “We should start to reinforce the quality part.”
For its part, Viviana Postaya specialist in educational management, warned that what is failing is “that basic knowledge is learned.”
Postay He spoke with this medium and considered that “We have to rethink what we teach in school”. In that sense, the specialist said: “The first thing to do in secondary school is to reinforce the basic knowledge of fundamental sciences: mathematics, language, geography, history, etc.”
Argentina, approved in access to education and failed in quality of learning
According to the AE report, titled “School Results Index: comparison between Latin American countries”, Chili is positioned with the best I WILL GO by registering that 38 out of every 100 students complete their schooling in a timely manner.
In second place, Uruguay registers 36 out of 100. In intermediate positions are Peru (28 out of 100), Brazil (23 out of 100) and Mexico (23 out of 100), while Argentina (22 out of 100) only surpasses Colombia (19 out of 100) and Paraguay (11 out of 100).
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School attendance rate of the population, in theoretical time, and with adequate knowledge at age 15. Year 2022.
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When analyzing other aspects, Chile and Argentina have the highest school attendance rates at age 15, with 98% and 97% respectively. However, when considering overage, Colombia leads with 38% of 15-year-old students in grades lower than expected, followed by Uruguay (28%) and Paraguay (23%).
In Argentina, school attendance at age 15 has increased from 90% in 2009 to 97% in 2022. However, the proportion of students who achieve adequate knowledge has decreased, from 26% in 2009 to 22% in 2022. according to the report.
The keys
The teacher’s task is one of the keys to directing, focusing and strengthening basic knowledge. “It continues to be a central task to organize teaching work in secondary schools; it has to be by position and not by chair,” he stressed. Postay.
“This work of the secondary school teacher has to be both institutional and tutoring, fulfilling the teaching role in class but also accompanying the academic trajectories of the teacher with the student,” he added.
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While, Leyre Sáenz Guillén He emphasized: “It is necessary to reintroduce officials and political leaders and society to what is educational quality from an early stage. If 1 in 2 third graders do not understand a text, this will be more pronounced in high school.”
Therefore, he stressed Saenz Guillen that the most important thing is “reinforcement of the foundations of early literacy”.
“Early training in kindergarten is very important. We see that the children who were in kindergarten have a better educational trajectory later,” concluded the AE researcher.
