The Minister of Education, Marco Antonio Ávila, reported this Wednesday that they requested to suspend, for this 2022, the tests of the National System for the Evaluation of Learning Results (Simce) that is applied every year in the educational establishments of the country.
At the Ministry of Education headquarters, its head took stock of the first month of presence in schools, after two years of restrictions due to the pandemic, and also addressed the actions applied by the portfolio, during this period, in the face of the acts of violence that motivated the convening of an Advisory Council for School Coexistence.
Referring to the stress of the educational communities and “regarding this diagnosis of overwhelm”, the minister pointed out that with the Agency for the Quality of Education, the National Council of Education was asked to suspend, during 2022, the measurement program presented by the Mineduc.
“These measurements are not comparable because in 2019, 2020 and 2021 we have three measurements that do not allow us to follow a cohort and therefore a comparability of the evaluations was somehow lost, that clearly, for those who are experts in the world of statistics It’s very complex,” he argued.
In addition, he assured that “we realized that once the government took office, the entirety of this evaluation plan was not budgeted in the 2022 Budget, therefore, if we even wanted to do it, we do not have the resources because they were not provided in the budget prepared. in October of last year by the previous government.”
Ávila added that “we have many elements that allow us today to make this decision and say: it is not pertinent” to take the test.
For its part, the entity that resolves the request regarding the Simce, in session this Wednesday, explained the minister, that “we will probably have this answer in the next few hours and perhaps tomorrow (Thursday) we will be in a position to be able to notify the country that effectively this Simce measurement is not going to be implemented”.
