national school monitoring programme; secondary school; assessing basic reading and math competencies; Épreuves Standardisées; Enseignement Secondaire Générale – Voie de Préparation
Abstract :
[en] Spotlight on ESG-VP students - a new approach to testing
Test results of the national school monitoring programme Épreuves Standardisées (ÉpStan) reveal a low level of reading and math competency for the majority of 9th-graders attending the Enseignement Secondaire Générale – Voie de Préparation (ESG-VP) school track: In 2022, 3 out of 4 ESG-VP students could not master ÉpStan Niveau 1 in French and German reading comprehension (vs. 2 out of 3 in math; https://dashboard.epstan.lu), meaning that they struggle to read simple and short texts, and to solve basic mathematical problems (MENFP 2008; Sonnleitner et al. 2018).
The aim of this pilot-study is to extend and adapt our test material to have a closer look at ESG-VP students’ reading and math performances by using additional testing items that allow for more nuanced statistical analyses. Our first results for German reading comprehension are promising; they will be presented and discussed.
Research center :
Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Luxembourg Centre for Educational Testing (LUCET)
