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Japanese students show improvement in all 3 OECD competence tests
TOKYO, Dec. 7 (Kyodo) - Japan's 15-year-old school pupils showed improved reading, math and science skills in international competence tests in 2009 compared with three years earlier, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday.
Japan moved up to eighth place in literacy among the 65 countries and regions involved, compared with 15th place among 57 countries and regions in 2006, and rose to fifth from sixth in applied scientific skills and to ninth from 10th in applied mathematical skills, the OECD said in its triennial report.
The 2009 Program for International Student Assessment, the fourth in the PISA series since 2000, covered around 470,000 students aged 15 in the 33 OECD members as well as non-member countries and regions such as China.
Students in China's Shanghai, who participated in the 2009 tests for the first time, secured the top spots in all three fields, scoring 556 points in reading, 600 in math and 575 in science, against OECD averages of around 500.
South Korean students placed second in literacy with 539 points, down from top spot in 2006, while students in Singapore placed second in math with 562 and those in Finland were second in science with 554.
Japanese students scored 520 points in reading, up 22 points from 2006, 529 in math, up 6 points, and 539 in science, up 8 points, arresting a decline since securing top spot in math and second place in science in 2000.
The around 6,000 Japanese students who participated in the tests at 185
selected schools across Japan have grown up under the government's relaxed
education policy, but the previous PISA results prompted the government to
reverse the policy and call for more classes.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology attributed
the students' improvement in the latest literacy test to the spread of reading
activities before class and the introduction of PISA-style questions in
national achievement tests that started in 2007.
==Kyodo
Japan moved up to eighth place in literacy among the 65 countries and regions involved, compared with 15th place among 57 countries and regions in 2006, and rose to fifth from sixth in applied scientific skills and to ninth from 10th in applied mathematical skills, the OECD said in its triennial report.
The 2009 Program for International Student Assessment, the fourth in the PISA series since 2000, covered around 470,000 students aged 15 in the 33 OECD members as well as non-member countries and regions such as China.
Students in China's Shanghai, who participated in the 2009 tests for the first time, secured the top spots in all three fields, scoring 556 points in reading, 600 in math and 575 in science, against OECD averages of around 500.
South Korean students placed second in literacy with 539 points, down from top spot in 2006, while students in Singapore placed second in math with 562 and those in Finland were second in science with 554.
Japanese students scored 520 points in reading, up 22 points from 2006, 529 in math, up 6 points, and 539 in science, up 8 points, arresting a decline since securing top spot in math and second place in science in 2000.
The around 6,000 Japanese students who participated in the tests at 185
selected schools across Japan have grown up under the government's relaxed
education policy, but the previous PISA results prompted the government to
reverse the policy and call for more classes.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology attributed
the students' improvement in the latest literacy test to the spread of reading
activities before class and the introduction of PISA-style questions in
national achievement tests that started in 2007.
==Kyodo
