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Taiwan has topped a prestigious international league table of 15-year-olds' mathematical ability, vaulting ahead of far richer countries.
The island state's performance in the Pisa tests of mathematics and reading, devised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published yesterday, reinforces its reputation as a high-technology Asian tiger.
Taiwan also earned fourth place in the parallel Pisa science rankings, published last week, though in reading it was in 16th place.
Tu Cheng-sheng, Taiwan's minister of education, said: “This shows the success of [our] education reform.” Over the past 15 years, the island has introduced a nine-year curriculum which is followed by every student.
But education experts said Taiwan's lead in maths was mainly due to its students' rote learning. Lin Huan-hsiang, dean of the National Hualien University for Education and one of the organisers of Pisa in Taiwan, said: “While calculation and explanatory capabilities are strong, we are still relatively weak in areas such as formulating new scientific problems or logical deduction.”
Asia-Pacific's strong showing was one of the clearest themes of the Pisa survey. The region contributed five of the top 10 in the mathematics and science league tables, and four of the top 10 in reading – thanks to strong contributions from Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, Australia and New Zealand. Mainland China did not participate.
在一個全球聲望很高的評比15歲青少年數(shù)學能力的排行榜上，臺灣學生力拔頭籌，超越了很多更富有的國家。
經(jīng)合組織(OECD)設計了這項“國際學生評估項目”(Programme for International Student Assessment，簡稱：Pisa)數(shù)學與閱讀測試，并于昨日公布了結果。臺灣在測試中的表現(xiàn)，進一步鞏固了它作為一個高科技“亞洲小龍”的聲譽。
在上周公布的Pisa科學排名中，臺灣排名第四，但閱讀排名僅為第16。
臺灣教育部長杜正勝(Tu Cheng-sheng)表示：“這顯示了我們教育改革的成功?！痹谶^去15年中，臺灣推出了針對所有學生的9年制課程。
但教育專家表示，臺灣在數(shù)學方面的主要源于學生的機械式學習?；ㄉ徑逃髮W(National Hualien University of Education)校長林煥祥(Lin Huan-hsiang)是Pisa測試在臺灣的組織者之一。他表示：“雖然我們的計算和解釋能力很強，但在系統(tǒng)設計新的科學問題及邏輯推演等方面，我們依然相對薄弱?！?在此次Pisa調查中，一個明顯的主題就是亞太地區(qū)的強勁表現(xiàn)。在數(shù)學和科學排行榜的前10位中，該地區(qū)占據(jù)了5席，在閱讀前10名中也占了4席——這得益于臺灣、韓國、日本、香港、澳門、澳大利亞與新西蘭的優(yōu)異表現(xiàn)。中國大陸沒有參加調查測試。