They are above average in mathematics, and the fourth graders have quite a problem with spelling. A new study shows where Saxony-Anhalt’s students stand. However, the long-term trend is downwards almost everywhere.
Magdeburg (dpa/sa) – Saxony-Anhalt’s fourth graders did above average in mathematics in a nationwide educational comparison. In Germany, 60.6 percent of the children reached the standard and 13.9 percent the optimal standard, as a study presented on Monday by the Conference of Ministers of Education (KMK) shows. Nationwide, the values ??were 54.8 and 10.5 percent. 21.8 percent did not meet the minimum requirements, in Saxony-Anhalt the proportion was 16.1 percent. In addition to Saxony-Anhalt, a particularly large number of fourth-graders in Bavaria and Saxony achieved or exceeded the normal standard in mathematics.
For the IQB education trend, the status of the students is examined at intervals of five years. Between April and August 2021, around 27,000 fourth graders were tested at almost 1,500 schools throughout Germany – in the areas of reading, listening, spelling and mathematics. The figures for all of Germany had already been presented in July. A comparison by federal states followed.
The comparison with the 2016 study showed that elementary school children are increasingly having math and German problems and that their skills are falling behind over the years. This also applies in Saxony-Anhalt, also for mathematics. Only in Bremen, Hamburg and Rhineland-Palatinate were the results – albeit at different levels – largely unchanged, it said.
There is a problem with the spelling. In Saxony-Anhalt and nationwide, around 30 percent of boys and girls did not reach the minimum standard. Across Germany, 44.4 percent were able to write according to the standard, in Saxony-Anhalt 45.8 percent. About six percent achieved the optimal standard. In Saxony-Anhalt, 58.7 percent of students achieved the minimum reading standard in 2021, 15.5 percent did not. The fourth graders in this country did slightly better than the national average.
When listening, 57.4 percent of the fourth graders from Saxony-Anhalt managed the standard standard (nationwide 58.9 percent). 15.5 percent fell short of the minimum standard (nationwide: 18.3 percent). While 8.2 percent of the children in Germany achieved the optimal standard, it was 5.7 percent in Germany.
