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Catalonia Plans Test Overhaul and Remedial Push After Competency Scores Miss Benchmarks

Revamped assessments for scientific comparability, new teacher hires, STEAM pilots, computational thinking programs head the 2025–26 response to record low student scores.

Palomas frente a un instituto-escuela en Barcelona, este curso.
Alumnos del Instiut Escola de Les Arts.
Los docentes de matemáticas Carles Granell y Mireia Dosil, la semana pasada en el CosmoCaixa.
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Overview

  • Sixth-grade students fell below the 70-point benchmark in Science, Technology and Engineering and recorded their worst Mathematics results since 2017, while fourth-year ESO pupils missed the minimum standard in Mathematics, Science, Technology and Engineering and English.
  • The newly established Agència d’Avaluació i Prospectiva de l’Educació will redesign basic competency tests with fixed anchoring items to enable scientific year-to-year comparability of results.
  • The Departament d’Educació i FP will hire additional mathematics teachers and introduce computational thinking programs across up to 900 schools.
  • STEAM outreach pilots will be expanded and clarified Lomloe curriculum guidelines will be issued ahead of the 2025–26 school year to support evidence-based teaching.
  • Assessments highlighted gender gaps, with girls underperforming in STEM subjects and boys lagging in linguistic competencies.