The performance in mathematical competence of the students of the Valencian Community is in the Spanish average with 473 points and one point above the OECD, but it is ranked number ten among the Autonomous Communities.
This is reflected in the latest PISA report, which evaluates the academic performance of 15-16 year old students from 80 countries, and which shows in Spain a decline in their knowledge of Mathematics and Reading, gentler than in other places, and traces a clear downward trend over the last decade.
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), coordinated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which in its 2022 edition focuses on mathematical competence, has been carried out by about 690,000 students, almost 31,000 of them Spanish in the 4th year of ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education).
Field data collection was delayed by a year and the study was carried out in 2021, instead of 2020, due to the pandemic that has taken its toll on almost all countries in the form of a strong learning loss.
The result in mathematics for the Valencian Community does not indicate significant changes compared to previous editions.
According to the results of the report, Spain scores 473 points in mathematics, eight points less than in the previous 2018 edition; it rebounds slightly in science, going from 483 to 485; and in reading it reaches 474 points, a competition that registers a drop of fourteen points compared to 2012.
In the Valencian Community, the average performance in science is 483 points, two below the Spanish average, and in reading it exceeds the national average of 474 points with its 482 points.
In this way, the OECD summarizes, the average performance in Spain in the three subjects has on this occasion been “significantly” lower than the 2012 and 2015 report, the last evaluation whose results are “fully comparable” to those of 2022, at the level national.
