Los resultados del estudio PISA en Francia

Abstract

The international program for the evaluation of students, known as PISA, does not enjoy the French observers. Published every three years, his evaluations of the educational systems of thirty countries of the OECD, and nowadays of other fifty countries, have a recognized methodological quality and resist to the majority of the objections. But, they are widely ignored in France where they try to discredit them very often. The French reticence towards this research come from the medium or including mediocre classification in which places the Hexagon in the three areas evaluated by PISA: lecture, mathematics and science. In spite of the provoked objections, the results of the PISA survey are useful because they corroborate and complete those of the national evaluations and allow the limits of the curricular approach dominant in the French educational system.