Search

During the 40 years in which Spain has been a democracy 7 educational laws have been enacted with the aim of improving the educational system. However, the various assessments that have been carried out in our country through the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) Report have not reflected this improvement. This study collected statistical data published by the PISA Report since the first evaluations were activated, both for the area of Reading and Mathematics and Science. The aspects relating to the competences assessed in the PISA Report were also drawn from the various educational laws applied since 2000. The results revealed that competence in Reading improved slightly among students, while in Mathematics there was no improvement and in Science there was even a setback. In the last PISA evaluation, the regions of Castilla-La Mancha and Navarra obtained remarkable results for Reading, with scores only below Finland at a European level, while in Mathematics and Science the differences between regions were small, being in line with the European average scores. This study demonstrates that the impact of the successive educational laws enacted in Spain since 2000 on the results in the PISA report assessments has been low and even negative, with just a few regions at similar levels of performance as those reported for the top five European countries for each of the skills assessed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]