The Ministry of Education and Culture announced the results shoes PISA 2022 on Tuesday (5/12) online via the YouTube channel. PISA is an international study that assesses the education system through measuring student literacy and numeracy competencies.
Nadiem Makarim, Mendikbudrists, convey, even though the literacy and numeracy scores of Indonesian students have fallen, But the ranking increased compared to the PISA results last year 2018. This proves the resilience of the Indonesian education system in facing the COVID-19 disaster.
"The impact of the pandemic and learning loss faced by Indonesia, The recovery is much faster than the average of other countries in the world. This shows the resilience of our system and the strategies we have implemented to catch up are effective,” explained Nadiem.
The strategy that Nadiem mentioned refers to the implementation of the Emergency Curriculum. The Emergency Curriculum is a Curriculum 2013 with simplified material so that learning can be more in-depth.
During the pandemic, The education unit has three curriculum options, namely Curriculum 2013, Prototype Curriculum, and Emergency Curriculum. Bbased on research results, Nadiem revealed, schools that use the Emergency Curriculum experience learning loss much lower than schools that continue to use the Curriculum 2013.
“Where are the learning outcomes of one year in schools that actually implement the Emergency Curriculum, a much more streamlined curriculum, simpler, easy to understand, only the essentials are focused on, learning loss what they face is much smaller than schools that implement the Curriculum 2013, just lost 1 month compared 5 moon," he explained, referring to research by the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2018 2021..
Bukik Setiawan, chairman of the Teacher Learning Foundation, appreciates the Ministry of Education and Culture's policy which gives schools the option to choose one of three curricula. This choice shows that the ministry respects the authority of schools to determine the best curriculum for students in their schools.
“That's too much, decisions are made totally by the central government, without respecting the authority of schools that better understand the conditions of students and the region. The PISA results show that the curriculum choices chosen by schools have proven to help Indonesia remain resilient to threats learning loss,said Buck.
Bukik invited the teacher, school principals and school supervisors to move together to expand and improve the quality of implementing the independent curriculum.
“Maybe it's not yet comprehensive, but at least you can prioritize 3 key agenda: classroom management, assessment at the beginning of learning and learning differentiation. She was 3 This key agenda was implemented, there will undoubtedly be an increase in literacy, number and character of students in a school,he explained.
Besides that, Bukik also suggested that teachers invite students to discuss when determining assessments, “When discussed with students, the assessment also triggers changes in student behavior and learning habits,” concluded Bukik. (Yosi)
