Kazakhstan's positive experience in implementing an international program to assess the educational competencies of schoolchildren was noted at the round table "PISA-2022: Lessons for Eurasian Countries". The event was held in Paris as part of the OECD Eurasian Week, an annual high-level meeting of countries participating in the Eurasian Competitiveness Program of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, El.kz reports with reference to the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The lessons of our country's participation in the PISA-2022 study were presented in the report of the Minister of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan Gani Beisembayev, which was introduced to the meeting participants by the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to international organizations in Paris Askar Abdrakhmanov. It indicates that Kazakhstan's results in PISA were influenced by the introduction of important educational initiatives implemented with the full support of the Head of State.
Elizabeth Fordham, Senior Advisor to the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, noted that despite the global deterioration in PISA indicators after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kazakhstan managed to maintain indicators in solving mathematical problems and assessing reading skills, and showed significant progress in science.
According to her, Kazakhstan's significant experience of participation in PISA and the effective steps being taken to improve the national education system can be interesting and useful for study by other countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Representatives of Moldova and Armenia also spoke at the meeting.
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