Government to revamp student assessment to improve PISA scores
(WorldNews Indonesia)

Shares Following a decision to cancel the national exam for elementary, junior high and high school students because of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has instructed the Education Ministry to seize the opportunity to overhaul the national evaluation system for primary and secondary education. Jokowi said that, while the latest report of the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) showed that Indonesia's education system had become more inclusive in the past 18 years, it also showed that Indonesian students scored poorly in science, reading and mathematics. “The report that I received showed that [Indonesia’s] PISA...