{"id":24846,"date":"2019-10-19T14:38:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T14:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=24846"},"modified":"2019-10-19T14:38:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T14:38:29","slug":"maths-and-natural-science-scores-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/maths-and-natural-science-scores-dip\/","title":{"rendered":"Math and natural science scores dip, survey of 45k German students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math and natural science scores are low among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/vocational-education-for-strengthening-the-sino-german-ties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a> students. The downward trend in the subjects started just after 2012 and are more prominent in the eastern states.<\/strong><br \/>\nA survey of about 45,000 pupils between 14-15 years revealed the low performance of German students in math and natural science.<br \/>\nThe study conducted by the Institute for Quality Development in Education (IQB) noted that the overall scores were stable in 2018 despite the downward trend.<br \/>\n<strong>One thousand, four hundred and sixty schools participated in the study, and more schools in the eastern part of the country were affected.<\/strong><br \/>\nHowever, students in the states of Brandenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg Western-Pomerania, and Rhineland-Palatinate performed worse than other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Math and natural science performance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>The Quality Development in Education <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/german-students-falling-behind-in-sciences-mathematics\/a-50889094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported that in 2018<\/a>, the minimum pass level for math was not achieved by one in every four of ninth-grade students.<\/strong><br \/>\nNevertheless, 45% of students who took the Middle School Leaving Certificate (MSA) made a higher regulatory standard.<br \/>\nIn general, 25% of students performed severely in math. About 5 \u2013 17 percent of students didn\u2019t reach the lowest standard for natural science subjects: biology, chemistry, and physics.<br \/>\nThe Quality Development in Education study also pointed out that the eastern states with Bavaria in the south recorded higher numbers of students who scored high in math and natural science.<br \/>\nTypically, German children are 15 years at the end of ninth-grade if they don\u2019t lose a year at some stage in the academics.<br \/>\n<strong>In hindsight&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nThe world everywhere is preoccupied with academic scores. Did anybody ever ask about EQ scores?<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24866\" src=\"http:\/\/159.65.134.245\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/math-and-natural-science-scores-dip-284x300.png\" alt=\"math-and-natural-science-scores-dip\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math and natural science scores are low among German students. The downward trend in the subjects started just after 2012 and are more prominent in the eastern states. A survey of about 45,000 pupils between 14-15 years revealed the low performance of German students in math and natural science. The study conducted by the Institute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}