The publication of the results of national student assessments is now an unavoidable event for every national education minister, eager to learn lessons about their educational policy. The 2024 edition of these standardized tests, conducted for the first time at all five levels of primary school to measure students’ level of mastery of skills considered fundamental in mathematics and French, is no exception to the rule.
“Everything is progressing in a really remarkable way”welcomed the new tenant of Grenelle Street, Anne Genetet, interviewed on Franceinfo shortly before the Department of Evaluation, Forecasting and Performance (DEPP) published the results online, on Thursday, October 31. “For the first time in five years, we are seeing extremely encouraging results in these fundamental skills: reading, writing, counting.” said m.me Genet.
In a press release, the ministry estimated that “the important investment in first degree (…) bear fruit today ». Since the first election of Emmanuel Macron as head of state, in 2017, successive governments have claimed a “priority to primary education” by deploying several measures, such as doubling the classes of the large sections, CP and CE1, in educational priority, or even training. plans in French and mathematics.
Different results according to educational sectors
The political reading of the results of national evaluations, claimed as “compass” by Rue de Grenelle, however, remains risky: these tests, initially developed as an educational tool to support the work of teachers, do not constitute an evaluation of public policies; The effects of duplication have never been measured as such at a global level. end of CE1.
The detailed results of the DEPP are also more equivocal. In CP and CE1, the only two levels evaluated since 2019, the evolution is contrasting depending on the disciplines and skills. Upon entering primary school, if performance progresses in two elements in French (“knowing the names of letters and the sound they make” and “manipulating phonemes”) between 2019 and 2024, it remains stable in the other five. In mathematics, they improve three of the seven skills (“comparing numbers,” “solving problems,” and “writing integers”) and remain stable in the remaining mastered skills (except “placing a number on a graduated line”) to more than 80%.
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