The Minister of Education admitted that changes may be made to the assessment model for 4th and 6th grade students, following Portugal's results in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The official recalled that the current model already provides for an assessment at the end of learning cycles.
The discussion now being proposed is to determine whether these assessment tests should also count again towards students' final grades. The article does not specify what model is currently in place or how long it has been implemented.
The PISA results, which assess competencies of 15-year-old students in mathematics, reading, and science, have served as the basis for this reflection on possible changes to the Portuguese assessment system.
The article does not mention specific numbers from Portugal's PISA results or concrete dates for when any changes to the assessment model might be announced.
