School performance examination

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In school performance studies , the knowledge and skills of students are measured in order to ultimately evaluate the performance of schools and their social reproduction of non-school differentiations (gender, social and ethnic origin) .

Since the end of the 1950s, large school performance studies have been carried out by educational researchers in international cooperation (technical term: large-scale assessments or LSA). Many studies (including TIMSS, PIRLS) are coordinated by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement .

The following studies in particular have become known to a wider public:

  • the TIMSS study on mathematics performance in the secondary and II .
  • the PISA study on basic education (“literacy”) of fifteen-year-olds (carried out in 2000, federal state-specific evaluation published in 2003).
  • the IGLU study (PIRLS) on reading competence (in Germany additional surveys on mathematics, natural sciences and orthography) of ten-year-olds (carried out in 2001, federal state-specific evaluation published in 2004).

TIMSS and PISA certified poor performance in the German school system, especially in lower secondary level, while German elementary schools performed extremely well in IGLU. Further studies of school performance were carried out in the LAU study and the DESI study . In Germany, the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) is actively involved in the conception and evaluation of national and international school performance studies such as the DESI study, the PISA studies or the PIAAC study .

In Sweden, which has so far taken good positions in international comparisons, evaluation is systematically carried out by the national authority Skolverket .

Self-perception of the students

The school performance examinations can definitely differ from the self-assessment of the students. According to the World Vision Children's Study, 65 percent of girls between the ages of six and eleven consider their school performance to be “good” or “very good”. In the case of boys, it is only 59 percent.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Vision Germany : World Vision Children's Study , quoted from Lennart Paul: Number of the week: 64 in: Berliner Morgenpost from July 24, 2010, page 1.