Chinese teens put to the information age test in global Pisa education study
- Results suggest China is going in the right education reform direction but there’s more to do, researchers say
- Even the 10 per cent most disadvantaged students in China showed better reading skills than those of the average student in the examined countries
Fifteen-year-olds in some of China’s most affluent cities far outstrip their counterparts in most other countries when it comes to an important skill in the information age, according to a global education study.
Only Singapore did better with 26 per cent of the city state’s students reaching the mark, while the average overall was 8.7 per cent, according to test results released on Tuesday.
Pisa said the skill was becoming more important as technology allowed easy access to information and reading had become more about building knowledge, thinking critically and making well-founded judgments than extracting information.
Among 15-year-old students from the other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries surveyed, 13.5 per cent in the United States, 11.5 per cent in Britain and 14.3 per cent in Finland were deemed as top reading performers.