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students study in mathematics and natural sciences of the East surpassed the west German states From Thomas Vitzthum
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It sure is balm for the soul of many East Germans and beyond grist to the mill of those who maintain the two-tier school system in the East generally for the better. The states have first tested whether their ninth graders reach of the Standing Conference (KMK) prescribed standards of education in mathematics and the natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology). These describe what a student at the end of a school year can is, and apply to teachers as an educational objective.
The two main results are: The educational standards are reached by a majority of students in Germany. And a year before the actual graduation. However, the exciting finding is another: the East expects better than the West. Between the past in all subjects at the top of the Free State of Saxony and the very back of shunting three city states of North Rhine-Westphalia and the difference is enormous between Dresden and Berlin are more than two school years. In the West, only Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate create output values ??above the national average, in individual cases, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony.
over 44,000 students of all types of schools had participated at the new school test. The Institute of Educational Progress at the Humboldt University in Berlin in May and June 2012 had visited it more than 1300 schools.
In mathematics, the skills levels are reached in the countries of Bavaria, Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia significantly above the average for Germany. As an example, the average is 500 points. Saxony reaches 536 Berlin, however, only 479 In the natural sciences, the situation is comparable. Students in all five East German states (excluding Berlin) achieve results far beyond the average. Since only Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate keep in chemistry and physics.
An important and revealing result is that the number of students a year group who attended a high school, does not affect the performance as a whole. Even in regions where many students aspire to high school, the level is maintained. However, it is again the eastern states, the correct here the average upward. Just because Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia have secondary school participation rates of sometimes more than 40 percent and show superior performance in schools nationwide, it looks so good.
The projection of the East in the natural sciences is striking and so could not be detected in studies of KMK 2009 (languages) and 2011 (primary). Especially with regard to the foreign language competence of the east section four years ago, even from very poor. All the more remarkable, the current findings. This raises questions. The inclination to the natural sciences seems to be higher. Whether this is due to a tradition that still refers to the time of the GDR, is certainly now eagerly discussed. Evidence there is.
Thus, the majority of teachers in the east between 40 and 60 years old. That is, they were still largely trained in the GDR. Saxony’s Minister of Culture Brunhild Kurth (independent), even chemistry and biology teacher, describes the training as well: “She was very hands on from the start there were internships that should tell us whether the profession is something for us.”. In addition, I contributed something else to motivate the teacher: “I have occupied a political niche.” A finding that her colleague Stephan Dorgerloh from Saxony-Anhalt – currently also President of KMK – based: “The school self-consciousness has come in the GDR from the natural sciences and mathematics ago That was the sphere in which the policy no great influence. had. One could easily make good teaching. ” In the natural sciences there have not given after 1990 in the new countries, the political upheavals as in other areas.
And still seems an East German tradition to show their strength of evidence: the duality. While you are only concentrated in the west of Germany, piece by piece on a school model that allows only a second column next to the school, this is the normal case in the East. This provides a relative calm in terms of structural changes. Especially Leader Saxony is a measure of resistance. Since the introduction of two-tier school system in 1990, the Free State has not conducted any significant structural reform.
On another “advantage”, the President of the German Teachers’ Association, Josef Kraus, back: “The West has to deal with a sometimes difficult immigrant clientele, while in East generally less migrants live. Mostly they come from Vietnam and there are sometimes even better in school than students without an immigrant background. ” The KMK study shows how all its predecessors, including the PISA studies show that the performance difference between children from families with a migration background and those without is still substantial. Although in mathematics and natural sciences, the language should not be the all-important criterion for success in school, the home has a negative effect here too. The Ministers therefore want to try in the coming years to combine academic and extracurricular funding opportunities of students with immigrant backgrounds and so compensate for the achievement gap.
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