A not entirely comforting picture, for Sardinia, is what emerges from the results of the Invalsi tests , to which over 920,000 primary school pupils (class II and class V) were subjected in Italy, about 545,000 first grade secondary school students ( class III) and just over 953,000 secondary school students (class II and final year).
While the national data shows that primary school has substantially "held" despite the pandemic, the very young Sardinian students do not stand out for their mathematics performance: the young pupils in the fifth grade of primary school obtain results below the national average . And the "colleagues" of the first and second grade primary school do the same.
"In some regions of the South - Campania, Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia", we read in the Invalsi report, "there is a greater number of students with very low levels of achievement, which is around 50% of the school population in Italian , 55-60% in Mathematics, 35-40% in English-reading and 55-60% in English-listening ".
The study highlights in particular that, in all subjects, the greatest learning losses are recorded among students who come from more unfavorable socio-economic-cultural backgrounds, and who therefore could have been damaged by suspended or remote lessons due to pandemic.
A cause for concern in the Island is also the school dropout , which reaches 18.7% , a figure still up by almost one percentage point compared to 2021.
(Unioneonline / vl)
