Another DOWNSIDE to the inventions of modern day technologies such as FB, Twitter, or whatever OTHER social networking forums are available out there, from the Newspapers, translated…
The Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA, was an international investigative program set up by OECD. Started from 2000, the program compared the levels of knowledge in students in various nations in areas of reading, math, and sciences.
Every three years, PISA would have a test once, Taiwan started getting involved with the researches since 2006. By 2015, in the seventy-two separate nations or economic bodies, Taiwan scored fourth continually in the world, while in the sciences, Taiwan had advanced nine places to fourth, but in reading, dropped fifteen places, to twenty-third, losing out to Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and other neighboring areas. The scholars deducted, that because PISA administered the tests electronically, and level of responses of electronic reading in Taiwan is limited, only to replying to the messages online, giving kudos, etc., etc., the students aren’t accustomed to reading a long article online, and then, judge and understand the article in whole.
The reading materials used by PISA are very widely spread, subjects from bullying, brushing teeth, sneakers, the flu, the labor population, crime scene investigation, the safety of mobile devices, postings to get blood donations, how to fill out a warranty card for a camera, along with other real-life situations, and, there were, a ton of pictures that were on the test, and short-answer questions, very dissimilar to the traditional Chinese language test questions.
And so, because the PISA has a wide spread of topics, which is not what the students here are used to, the students here are just used to being told which pages the exams coming up covers, and just, memorized the pages, which means, that they can’t possibly make what they’re studying applicable to their everyday living, which is why the students here, scored so low on the international assessments, and, this will only keep on getting worse and worse, with how popular social medias like FB, Twitter, etc., etc., etc., is becoming…