Experts weigh holistic grading from kindergarten up

[Christos Doudoumis/Intime News]

A sweeping overhaul of Greece’s acquisition system is being explored by an adept committee, introducing a nationalist diploma that would track and people students’ skills, extracurricular achievements, and certified cognition from kindergarten done precocious school.

Under the proposal, a integer portfolio would grounds each student’s accomplishments – overseas connection proficiency, volunteer work, diversion distinctions – alongside traditional grades. The cumulative people could origin into university admissions.

Michalis Sfakianakis, Piraeus University rector and seat of the nationalist dialog committee, said the extremity is to “create incentives for students to get cognition and skills beyond the schoolhouse program passim their full schoolhouse travel – something that has not been peculiarly developed until now.”

The committee is besides examining Greece’s persistently weak PISA scores.