The NRC and Principal Analyst of the PISA Study at the Agency for Pre- Primary, Primary and Secondary Education, Žaneta Džumhur, presented the recommendations based on PISA results in BiH at the X International Conference ‘Open Community School: Schools for Inclusion’ held on 16. 01.2020. in Tuzla.
The further dissemination of PISA 2018 results is scheduled as follows:
- 27.01.2020, Sarajevo Canton – for English language teachers expert team organized by the pedagogical institute of Sarajevo;
- 10.02.2020, Zenica-Doboj Canton – seminar for school directors organized by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports and the pedagogical institute of Zenica;
- 13.02.2020, Brčko District BIH- seminar for school principals and teachers organized by the Brcko District Education Department ;
- 14.02.2020, Posavina Canton – seminar for school directors, pedagogues and teachers organized by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports
Just to note the achievements of the respondents from our country in the PISA 2018 survey are far below the international average and are also low in the regional context. Respondents from BiH showed very low levels of reading literacy and literacy in mathematics and sciences. The difference between our average achievements in relation to the OECD average is estimated as three years of schooling, in other words, the average BiH fifteen-year-old students were, at the time of testing, at the level of the 12-year-old students of OECD average. The minimum level of achievement is not reached by as high as 58% of students in mathematics, 54% in reading, and 57% in science. Less than 1% of our respondents achieved maximum results. The PISA survey in BiH is conducted by the Agency for Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary Education (APOSO) in cooperation with the competent ministries of education and with the support of partners.