Schools to Be Subjected to the Test P ISA to be elected by Ministry of Education

Education Minister Shyqi Bytyqi in an interview for Calexo. com has announced that the names of participating schools to be determined by P The ISA will be informed of August by the end of January.

PISA is an international test that values the knowledge of 15-year-old students in over 72 countries around the world.

This is the second time Kosovo students have submitted to this test, expected to be held at the end of April.

Minister Bytyqi said that to avoid very bad results as they were in the first time Kosovo was subjected to this test, they plan preparation tests and additional lessons.

We have good news today that by the end of January we will have information on which school will be tested, so which schools will be selected by P ISA and these schools we're going to ask the school directors to have additional classes in which they'll be subject to test. PISA 2018”, Bytyqi said.

Bytyqi expressed optimism on the results of this test, though he said he does not expect a huge difference in the world ranking.

“We expect a better result than it has been, we do not hope much because it is short time to make big changes”, Bytyqi said.

Unlike published test results P ISA 2015, Kosovo ranked third from the end, among the 72 participating states.

The results showed that Kosovo students have mostly problems in the field of reading and understanding texts.