How Indonesian students can catch up on PISA score
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- 30 Jan 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic worsens the education in Indonesia. Learning loss, coined by the World Bank, is 33 percent in their 2020 report. As for Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) score, the score has not shown a meaningful progress to picture the national education quality.
Indonesia improved its education access after massive school construction in the 1980s. Only in the last decade has basic education become universal in Indonesia.
Apart from education access and quality, Indonesia also suffers from disparity problems. Previously, education access between Java and outside Java had been contrasted, and a similar disparity was also observed in the education access between the richest and poorest populations. However, such disparity in access was closed in 2015. Despite success in access, quality disparity still occurs.
The Education, Culture, Research and Technology Ministry calculated the pandemic impact was equal to losing 6 months in literacy and 5 months in numeracy. Such significant learning loss can jeopardize the levelling, teaching, and assessment system throughout Indonesia.
Understanding the nature of the learning loss problem, the Education Ministry introduced three strategic policy packages—the National Assessment, a simplified curriculum, and a reformed evaluation system.
The National Assessment was established to replace the National Examination. It incentivized stakeholders to game the test and provided an inaccurate result of education mapping. Without accurate data, the Indonesian government cannot make a better policy. Thus, the Education Ministry designed the National Assessment as an alternative—a low-stake assessment designed to evaluate the school instead of individual students. Read More…
