2015 National Assessment of Natural Sciences in the First Grade of Secondary Education in Flanders (A-stream) KU Leuven
In 2015 a national assessment was carried out, which was commissioned by the Flemish government, to assess the extent to which students have achieved the attainment targets for natural sciences at the end of the first grade of secondary education (A-stream). Data were collected through seven written tests: 'flowering plants', 'human', 'human reproduction', 'organisms in their environment', 'matter', 'energy' and 'scientific skills'. A representative sample of 3369 students from 112 Flemish secondary schools participated. In addition, there was a practical test that consisted of three tasks: ...