Student Life in Singapore
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The result of PISA (Program for International Student Assesment) has released on December 6, 2016. Asia must proud because there was some countries in asia standing in top ten like Singapore, Hongkong, Japan, Taiwan, China, and Vietnam. Top positition this years is Singapore, Singapore still leading for the global assesment of problem solving skill. It shows that student ( 15 years old) in Singapore get good mark in all areas of mathematic, science and reading literacy.
PISA is assesment program that conducted by Organisation and Development which conducted every three years. It prove that 15 years in Singapore are quick learners, highly inquisitive, able to solve unstructured problems in unfamiliar context and also highly skilled in generating new situation/condition by observing and exploring.
I think the study show that (Singapore student) are thinking, open, brave and have inisiative. Hang Swee Keat also said that important skill and trait for today’s world cannot be obtain through rote learning. Rote by rote is an old learning that only make the student feel boring and doesn’t have problem solving skill. Rote by rote is only create student as thinking student not as problem solver. But we know have good or high on some subject is not ensure that student have good jobs after they graduated.
Rote by rote is not effective learning, this methods only make the student confuse, information is only temporary. Time by time the information will fade if the student not repeat the information anymore. Back to Singapore, in the last PISA test in 2012 Singapore student were ranked second on mathematics and third in the science and reading.
PISA 2015 conducted last years from 72 countries in the world. In Singapore there are 5825 randomly selected to participate this test, its consist of all 166 public school, 290 student from private school, international school and one madrasah. The test is compute based test. Not only answer the question, the student also must filled up a survey questionnaire on their background, including learning habits and motivation.
Singapore student are not just applying knowledge and skill, but also in analysing, reasoning, and communicating as they solve novel problem. Here top score for each area like science, reading and math.
Top Score In PISA 2015.
Science
Singapore 556
Japan 538
Estonia 534
Taiwan 532
Finland 531
Macao 529
Canada 528
Vietnam 525
Hongkong 523
China 518
Top score for reading area
Singapore 535
Hongkong 527
Canada 527
Finland 526
Ireland 521
Estonia 519
South Korea 517
Japan 516
Norway 513
New zealand 509
Top score for math area
Singapore 564
Hongkong 548
Macao 544
Taiwan 542
Japan 532
China 531
Korea 524
Swiss 521
Estonia 520
Canada 516
How about Indonesia? Indonesia get improve on reading, literacy, science and math area. On PISA 2012 indonesia get score 337 for reading literacy and in PISA 2015 Indonesia get score 350. In math area indonesia get improve 17 poin compare than last test. On science indonesia get score 359, its better than three years ago (PISA 2012) that only 350.
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