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Authorities of the Ministry of Education, headed by the Minister of the portfolio, Mónica Jiménez, analyzed and highlighted the Chilean student participation SERCE under the initiative, which was conducted in 2006 students from 16 countries in Latin America who were in the third and sixth grade of primary education, and evaluating learning in language and mathematics.
The measurement was organized by the Latin American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education (LLECE). This network of systems to evaluate the quality of education in the countries of Latin America, which is coordinated by the Regional Office of Education of UNESCO for Latin America and the Caribbean. In Chile underwent evaluation 13,047 students (6,135 people and 6,912 third grade of sixth grade) of 165 schools.
"These results we can not be left alone, it's the challenge. The interesting thing is that we are measuring on all sides. We have national tests, Latin American, world. That should make us take action. We must encourage the best students coming to study education, because our best people should be forming our future generations. That should do it with good incentives, "said Minister Jiménez. Results of Chile

SERCE For reading, domestic students who were in the third grade had a high performance combined with Costa Rica, being overcome only by Cuba. In sixth grade, while the Chileans and Uruguayans soar above the rest, but were defeated by Cuba and Costa Rica.
"Not because we are better in language, we will abandon our concern with language. Although we have done well, we will continue to strengthen reading and literacy in general because we think it is a basic skill that all Chileans should have the maximum possible domains. We want more speed and reading comprehension at all levels, "said Mónica Jiménez.
For math, the students of third year of our country achieved outstanding performance along with Costa Rica, Mexico and Uruguay, only surpassed by Cuba. Those in sixth grade, in turn, achieved a score similar to Argentina and is located behind Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico and Uruguay.
"There are weaknesses in the area of \u200b\u200bmathematics and that we care, that's why the Ministry of Education already has an agreement with Japan. The Japanese are helping to train teachers in the area of \u200b\u200bmathematics, and we must continue to learn from the example of other nations. When teachers have mastery of the art, can better teach math. So we have to strengthen the expertise of teachers, "said the Minister of Education.
As scores by gender, reading only relevant differences were noted with the students of Grade 6, which had better results than their peers of the opposite sex. For math, the balance tipped in favor of men in both categories (third and sixth grade).
also announced that the writing score on the item will be released in a new report to be held in the second half of the year.

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