Education sector desires assessment

Minister of Education and Science L.Enkh-Amgalan met with the Director of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Andreas Schleicher and expressed Mongolia’s request to participate in the PISA assessment to be held in 2025.

The international assessment PISA is held every three years, and in 2022, 15-year-old 9,600 students from 196 schools in Mongolia participated. The International Assessment of Academic Achievement report will be announced in December this year. This evaluation reports the state of the country’s education sector in comparison with the international level. In other words, we will have the opportunity to learn and correct our achievements and mistakes in the education sector from this report, according to the Ministry of Education and Science.

PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) is an international study that began in the year 2000. It aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students in participating countries/ economies. Since the year 2000 over 70 countries and economies have participated in PISA. Every three years, a randomly selected group of fifteen-year-olds take tests in key subjects (reading, mathematics, and science) with a focus given on one subject in each year of assessment. The focus was reading in 2000, mathematics in 2003, science in 2006, and reading again in 2009. Preparations for the next assessment in 2012 are well underway and planning has begun for the PISA 2015 assessment. The students and school principals also fill in background questionnaires to provide information on the student’s family background and the way their schools are organized.