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PISA results to be released tomorrow

From Morgunblaðið · () Icelandic

Translated from Icelandic and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Iceland will publish its latest OECD PISA results at a news conference hosted by the Ministry of Education and Children.
  • Previous results showed Iceland had the largest decline among OECD countries between assessments.
  • Education experts cited by Morgunblaðið expect the new results to be worse, saying no action had been taken when the test was administered.

Iceland’s latest PISA results will be made public tomorrow, amid concerns over the country’s rapidly declining student performance.

The OECD assessment measures the skills and abilities of 15-year-old students. Iceland’s Ministry of Education and Children has scheduled a news conference at 11 a.m. at Safnahúsið on Hverfisgata, where officials will present the results and discuss responses to them.

Those attending include Education and Children’s Minister Inga Sæland, Reykjavík Mayor Hildur Björnsdóttir and Linda Heiðarsdóttir, director of the ministry’s school-affairs office.

The previous PISA results, released in December 2023, showed that no other OECD country had fallen as sharply as Iceland between assessments. Education-system experts contacted by Morgunblaðið believe the latest results could be even worse, arguing that no action had been taken when the test was administered in March last year.

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Originally published by Morgunblaðið in Icelandic. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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