resolver problemas

PISA 2012 

Creative Problem Solving

Executive Summary

1. Students in Singapore and Korea, followed by students in Japan, score higher in problem solving than students in all other participating countries and economies.

Four more East Asian partner economies score between 530 and 540 points on the PISA problem-solving scale: Macao-China (with a mean score of 540 points), Hong Kong-China (540 points), Shanghai-China (536 points) and Chinese Taipei (534 points); and Canada, Australia, Finland, England (United Kingdom), Estonia, France, the Netherlands, Italy, the Czech Republic, Germany, the United States and Belgium all score above the OECD average, but below the former group of countries.

Belgium 508; Austria 506 ; Norway 503

OCDE 500

Ireland 498; Denmark 497; Portugal 494 (88% de Singapura; 99% da OCDE); Sweden 491

2. Students in Hong Kong-China, Korea, Macao-China, Shanghai-China, Singapore and Chinese Taipei perform strongest on problems that require understanding, formulating or representing new knowledge, compared to other types of problems.

Meanwhile, students in Brazil, Ireland, Korea and the United States (e Portugal) perform strongest on interactive problems (those that require the student to uncover some of the information needed to solve the problem) compared to static problems (those that have all information disclosed at the outset).

* Qual o significado do flagrante contraste entre o grupo Brasil/Portugal e os chineses?

3. The impact of socio-economic status on problem-solving performance is weaker than it is on performance in mathematics, reading or science.

4. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to score higher than expected in problem solving than in mathematics,