1251 | 938 | Geography of Educational Performance in Central and Eastern European countries: evidence for Romania | PhD. Student DAMIAN Daniela-Andreia, Professor Ph.D. IAȚU Corneliu
Education has become a priority topic for European Union in the recent years, as it is a key determinant of economic and competitiveness growth. As results, in 2018 the European Union launched the European Education Area initiative (focused on six dimensions) which aims to increase the resilience and inclusion of the national education systems._x000D_
This study aims to inquire the educational performance across the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs), with a special emphasis on Romania. Firstly, a systematic literature review will be conducted at CEECs level regarding the educational performance. Following, the first two dimensions of the European Education Area (quality, and inclusion and gender equality) will be examined at LAU2 level in Romania, using descriptive and inferential statistics, and spatial analysis._x000D_
Using the databases from the National Assessments between 2015-2022 (results obtained by the lower education graduates at mathematics, Romanian Language and Literature, and mother tongue – only applicable to national minorities), this study seeks to achieve results concerning the quality and inclusion dimensions: 1) the overall performance and yearly performance of lower education graduates; 2) the performance of lower education graduates performed in the pre- and post-pandemic period; 3) the performance of lower education garduates from rural LAU 2 units compared to urban ones; 4) the performance of lower education graduates in LAU2 units where national minorities are in numerical majority; 5) the performance of national minorities graduates in mother tongue compared to Romanian Language and Literature._x000D_
The preliminary results, showed a low level of performance of a significant percent of LAU2 units. This raises the question of how well students will be prepared to enter the labor market in an ever-changing society (memorization vs. elaboration), and how this will influence the evolution of the human capital stock.
PhD. Student DAMIAN Daniela-Andreia, Professor Ph.D. IAȚU Corneliu
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
ID Abstract: 938