(...) we published results from our first Survey of Adult Skills, which tested the skills of countries’
workforces – including teachers – in key areas such as numeracy, literacy and
problem-solving. With a back-of-the-envelope calculation (teachers are only a
small group of the 5000+ workers in each country who were tested) it is possible
to compare the numeracy and literacy skills of teachers with those of other
college and university graduates (see the chart above).
(..) While, in each country, teachers tend to score similarly to college graduates on
our numeracy test, the numeracy skills of the workforce themselves differ
substantially across countries, and so the numeracy skills of teachers vary too:
Teachers in Japan and Finland come out on top, followed by their Flemish
(Belgium), German, Norwegian and Dutch colleagues, while teachers in Italy, the
Russian Federation, Spain, Poland, Estonia and the United States come out at the
bottom.
We will all find out on 3 December when results from the next PISA round, the global metric
of student performance.
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