Mexico falls in mathematics, reading and science in the latest PISA educational report

The students Mexicans dropped their level in mathreading and science, according to the latest report International Program for Student Monitoring (PISA) published this Tuesday.

Mexico turned out to have a much lower performance than the average of the 81 countries where the test was taken in mathematics, reading and science, especially in mathematics the level fell to 2002 levels and ranked 51st.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published the results of the PISA 2022 test, which measures the knowledge acquired and the abilities to apply it in these three subjects in young people aged 15 and 16 and compares them with the previous report of 2018.

Mexico scored 395 points in the subject of mathematics. With this, it fell 14 points compared to the 409 it had obtained in 2018. On the other hand, in reading they achieved 415 points, five less than in 2018, and in science 410, nine less than in 2018.

Only 7 out of every 1,000 Mexican students managed to reach the highlighted levels of the report’s evaluation (levels 5 and 6), but one in three placed in the lowest places (levels 1 and 2).

The OECD highlighted that there was a drop in the results obtained for the 81 countries in general, and indicated that the pandemic had its impact and that the drop compared to 2018 was very strong.

This new edition is influenced by the pandemic that locked the world in their homes for months in 2020. In fact, the spread of the coronavirus across the planet is the reason why the triennial report has been published now, one year after schedule.

However, they highlighted that even before the school closures due to Covid-19 there was a downward trend.

In this sense, they clarified that PISA provides data and serves so that the governments of the countries know what direction to take in education, and they insisted on the urgent need to change the direction of educational systems so that the downward trend can be reversed. .

Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Estonia and Switzerland were the five best evaluated countries. The report began to be prepared in 2000, and since then successive editions have been published until this eighth.