Education expert Rinor Qehaja has stated that the participation of Kosovo students in the international PISA test is unreasonable until there is a change in the education system.
On Thursday on KTV's "Interaktiv", Qehaja said that every international test like PISA brings attention back to real problems, but according to him, the responsibility is institutional towards the country's youth to guarantee them a quality education system.
"We always have that question of whether it is reasonable to participate in the PISA test when we do not have a substantial change within the system. A sound logic says no, since these 15-year-olds who are participating in this test must move from the first to the 10th grade in a very different learning system than the one that has mechanical learning at its epicenter, in order to have an improvement in the test results, otherwise the result is the same as in previous tests, since the epicenter is traditional rote learning. The PISA test as a whole serves policymaking. States pay for participation, participate in order to identify development advice, interventions at the policy level," said Qehaja.
He added that the lack of accountability is spread not only among teachers, but also across institutions, up to the Ministry of Education.
"In the absence of widespread accountability at all levels, including municipal officials, municipal education directorates, and the Ministry of Education, there must be responsibility, an established responsibility that affects the student in the classroom. The moment we have this, then undoubtedly comes a willingness on the part of the teacher for better performance," he said.
