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Hong Kong students' Pisa scores hit record low, raising concerns

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Hong Kong's performance in the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) has declined significantly, with scores in mathematics, reading, and science reaching their lowest point ever recorded. The city dropped from 7th to 17th place in science rankings, a stark contrast to its previous standing. An education expert noted that the introduction of a creative thinking metric revealed students' struggles with generating and evaluating ideas, suggesting a need for pedagogical changes within classrooms rather than solely attributing the decline to external factors like the COVID-19 pandemic. AI

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Alice Wu ·

    Will Hong Kong’s educators learn from sliding Pisa results?

    The latest Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) results are out and unfortunately for the Education Bureau, Hong Kong’s performance looks bad. Is this the outcome of not learning from the last assessment? In the 2022 Pisa assessment, a metric for creative thinkin…

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