Abstract
In Romania the basic competencies (reading and writing in the student’s mother tongue and in Romanian language in the case of students studying in minority schools, mathematical literacy) of students at the end of the 2nd and 4th grade of primary education are assessed starting with the school year 2013/2014. The paper analyses the tests of the national assessment designed and applied for measuring reading and writing skills in the mother tongue (in Hungarian language). The paper concludes that the tests are not carefully designed in order the measure the most important skills and abilities at the end of the 2nd and 4th grade. The study analyses the achievement in reading and writing of 2nd and 4th grade students’ attending schools teaching in Hungarian. The analysis fills a gap, because the detailed qualitative analyses of the results of elementary school students whose learning language is Hungarian, is missing from the reports presenting the results of the national assessment. Based on the analyses of the objectives, tests and results of the national assessment for reading and writing in Hungarian, the paper formulates the questions that arise regarding the necessity of this measurement.
Highlights
In Romania the National Assessment and Examination Center under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education organizes the national competency assessment for 2nd, 4th and 6th grade students starting from the school-year 2013/2014
In 4th grade experimental measurements were already carried out in the 1994/1995, 1997/1998, 1999/2000, 2004/2005, 2006/2007 and 2008/2009 academic years, but these measurements were not conducted at regular intervals, and the test structures did not yet conform to the international competency assessments’ test structure
The Education Act (2011) defines the following objectives in relation to the national measurements: 1. [...] In 2nd grade, the results of the measurements are used as a basis for developing individual development plans
Summary
In Romania the National Assessment and Examination Center under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education organizes the national competency assessment for 2nd, 4th and 6th grade students starting from the school-year 2013/2014. In 2nd grade, each year there are 12 questions or tasks related to the texts of both test versions of the reading comprehension tests.
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