National exam simulations should not remain just statistical data, the minister of education and research, Daniel David, said on Wednesday, arguing that the student must see a gain from participating in them.

Daniel David participated on Wednesday in the opening of a working session within the project ”Strengthening the capacity of Bulgaria and Romania to design and deliver curricular reforms and improve student learning outcomes.”

„What we can do is ensure that these simulations are useful, as we intended them to be. That is, after the simulations, it is very important to have discussions at school level. The school should understand its situation and take measures. The discussions should go down to the student level, so that the student sees a gain by participating in this simulation, including involving parents in this process who can be those motivating factors for children to participate in the evaluation processes,” David argued.

According to the minister, the simulation is not done for the sake of the system, but to reach each student.

„In the end, it is a simulation, but we must show that we are not doing that simulation just for the sake of the system, but, in the end, it ends up in personalized education. (…) I would like that after these simulations we do not remain only with a general report, with statistical data. I really want to check how each school uses the data it has and I want to see how it reaches the children in a personalized way,” Daniel David showed.

AGERPRES