2023-07-04 05:45:43
The across-the-board revaluation of math high school grades in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is met with criticism. The teachers’ association spoke of a distortion of the nationwide comparability of grades. Business representatives accuse politicians of playing the wrong game.
Was the math high school diploma in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania too difficult? The Ministry of Education there raised the results by one point across the country yesterday following criticism from experts and students. This procedure now provoked clear criticism from the German Teachers’ Association and from business representatives.
The action taken by the Ministry of Education in Schwerin distorts the nationwide comparability of grades, said the new president of the teachers’ association, Stefan Düll, of the “Bild” newspaper. There are always deviations in the note cuts. “One must not fall into the trap of wanting to excuse everything with Corona in the future.”
Experts complained that the processing time was too short
The general manager of the Central Association of the German Construction Industry (ZDB), Felix Pakleppa, accused politicians of playing the wrong game. “You can miscalculate at school, but not on the construction site. The wall has to be straight,” he told the “Bild-Zeitung”. The companies in his industry have to “retrain apprentices in math and German more and more often,” explained Pakleppa. “A tiler, for example, has to be able to calculate the floor. That has to be right in any case and mustn’t be wrong.” The President of the Federal Association of Freight Transport and Logistics (BGL), Dirk Engelhardt, also criticized the subsequent adjustment of grades.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s Minister of Education, Simone Oldenburg, stated on Monday that the processing time for the tasks had been judged by experts to be too short. In addition, this Abitur class was in distance learning in the 10th grade from December to May due to the corona restrictions. According to the experts, this has a negative effect, especially in mathematics. All those who have written a maths test, both basic course and advanced course students, receive the additional grade point.
There was also an increase in 2021
In the basic math course, the average of the written Abitur was 4.0 or 4.2 points and thus significantly below the level of the previous year. Five points are required to pass the exam. In the previous year, the averages were 5.6 and 4.9 points respectively. In the advanced math courses, the results looked a little better, but were also well below the average of the previous year.
After the poor results, a student from Wismar started an online petition that was signed by more than 1,000 people. In 2021, the math Abi in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was even raised by two grade points due to poor results.
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