Saturday, June 7, 2025
  • Contact Us
  • About BBS
  • Privacy & Policy
ENG
DZO
BBSCL Logo
  • Home
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Education
  • More
    • Announcement
    • Audience Survey Report
    • Programme
    • Radio Dzo-Channel Schedule
    • Radio Mix-Channel Schedule
Radio Live
No Result
View All Result
BBSCL logo
  • Home
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Education
  • More
    • Announcement
    • Audience Survey Report
    • Programme
    • Radio Dzo-Channel Schedule
    • Radio Mix-Channel Schedule
No Result
View All Result
BBSCL logo
Radio LIVE

Prioritise in depth learning for students,PISA-D national report suggests

April 1, 2019
in Uncategorized
Reading Time: 2 mins read
0
0
SHARES
16
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Bhutanese students did not perform better in skills that require application, analysis, creativity and problem solving, as per the findings of Bhutan’s PISA-D National Report launched on March 29.

Programme for International Student Assessment for development (PISA-D) is a program carried out by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development for middle and low-income countries on 15-year-old students. It assesses the quality of learning outcomes in subjects such as science, mathematics and reading skills.

The findings highlighted that on the three subjects they were tested, students performed slightly better in reading and science compared to mathematics.

Girls outperformed boys in reading, and in mathematics, boys performed better while both boys and girls performed equally in science.

The findings also demonstrated that Bhutanese students have relatively broader knowledge and understanding compared to other eight PISA-D countries such as Cambodia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Senegal and Zambia.

“The students are doing particularly well on tasks where they can reproduce what they know. The students are not doing so well on tasks where they need to extrapolate from what they know, apply their knowledge creatively in an unfamiliar situation,” Andreas Schleicher, the Director for Education and Skills, OECD, said.

“But those tasks are becoming increasingly important in the world. The world no longer rewards us just for what we know as Google knows everything. But the world rewards us for what we can do from what we know. So I think this is an area where Bhutan can still work.”

PISA-D assesses 15-year-olds because in most countries including Bhutan these students are near the end of basic education. And it assesses student’s literacy in reading, mathematics and science as they are the foundations of education.

The report recommends the relevant sectors to prioritise on the depth rather than the breadth of learning to avoid superficial learning, incomplete understanding of core concepts and limited ability to transfer and apply knowledge to unfamiliar contexts among others.

“What PISA can tell Bhutan is what everybody else has been doing. When I look at the work organizations of teachers, teachers teach a lot but they spend less time with individual students, they spend less time with students’ parents, they spend less time with each other than in many hard performing education systems,” Andreas Schleicher said.

The education ministry signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for PISA-D participation in 2017 during the 18th National Education Conference to check the state of education in the country against international standards.

Over 2,000 students from grade seven to twelve covering 53 schools participated in two hours test for PISA-D in 2017.

The findings and recommendations from the report will be an important milestone for the education system to prepare students for life beyond classrooms.

Previous Post

Man gets life sentence for murdering his ex-wife

Next Post

Eco-friendly bags distributed as substitute to plastic bags at CFM

Next Post

Eco-friendly bags distributed as substitute to plastic bags at CFM

No B.Ed.intake in Samtse College of Education from July this year

Dagana farmers target schools as an alternative market

Please login to join discussion

RECOMMENDED NEWS

Realignment of Nganglam highway ongoing as people await Kuri-Gongri bridge reconstruction

Realignment of Nganglam highway ongoing as people await Kuri-Gongri bridge reconstruction

2 years ago
8
Drinking water straight from tap not safe

Drinking water straight from tap not safe

10 years ago
1

Locally grown betel leaves gain popularity amid COVID-19

5 years ago
4

Purchase and sale top land disputes in Punakha

11 years ago
2

BROWSE BY CATEGORIES

  • Accidents (14)
  • Agriculture (426)
  • Announcement (174)
  • Audience Survey Report (1)
  • Business (744)
  • Crime/Legal (367)
  • Culture (47)
  • Development (51)
  • Disaster (57)
  • Economy (278)
  • Education (413)
  • Entertainment (13)
  • Environment (61)
  • Feature (65)
  • Featured (6)
  • Festival (78)
  • GMC (14)
  • Headlines (9)
  • Health (622)
  • Legal (52)
  • Literature (9)
  • Livestock (75)
  • Media (25)
  • Other Stories (5,574)
  • Politics (419)
  • RCSC (1)
  • Recent stories (5)
  • Religion (45)
  • Sci/Tech (709)
  • Social (516)
  • Sports (449)
  • Technology (190)
  • Tourism (19)
  • Uncategorized (13,866)
  • Video (136)
  • Video Story (249)
  • Wildlife (42)

BROWSE BY TOPICS

Tender Announcement Vacancy Announcement

POPULAR NEWS

  • BPC’s investigation rules out transformer short circuit as Damchhu forest fire cause

    Viral video of Bhutanese man assaulted by locals and police in Jaigaon sparks safety concerns

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Gelephu Mindfulness City opens recruitment drive for Bhutanese professionals

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Newspaper accuses DPT candidate of political ploy

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • A centenarian’s recipe to longevity

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • 40 companies risk closure over failure to submit financial reports

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
BBSCL

Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) is Bhutan’s primary national broadcaster, delivering diverse news and entertainment in multiple languages, fostering cultural understanding and public knowledge.

Follow us on social media:

Recent News

  • Phuentshogling Thromde installs reverse vending machine to promote recycling
  • Fixed deposit interest to be taxed at 10% under proposed Income Tax Bill
  • Yonphula Specialised Rehabilitation School to open next month
  • RMA to roll out seven new measures for loan repayment support
  • National Housing Strategy to be ready by September

News Category

  • Accidents
  • Agriculture
  • Announcement
  • Audience Survey Report
  • Business
  • Crime/Legal
  • Culture
  • Development
  • Disaster
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Environment
  • Feature
  • Featured
  • Festival
  • GMC
  • Headlines
  • Health
  • Legal
  • Literature
  • Livestock
  • Media
  • Other Stories
  • Politics
  • RCSC
  • Recent stories
  • Religion
  • Sci/Tech
  • Social
  • Sports
  • Technology
  • Tourism
  • Uncategorized
  • Video
  • Video Story
  • Wildlife
  • Contact Us
  • About BBS
  • Privacy & Policy

© 2024 BBSCL. All rights reserved.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Education
  • More
    • Announcement
    • Audience Survey Report
    • Programme
    • Radio Dzo-Channel Schedule
    • Radio Mix-Channel Schedule

© 2024 BBSCL. All rights reserved.