Education in Estonian

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? Estonian National Curriculum.
Школьном образовательном стандарте в Эстонии.

https://www.hm.ee/ru

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? Everyday of school life.
Ежедневной жизни в школе.

Some features:
attending school is obligatory to everybody until age of 17
instruction is in students’ mother tongue until the end of basic school (9 classes)
free of charge gymnasium school education for everybody
in Russian gymnasiums 60% of subjects are taught in Estonian
every school has to compile School Curriculum on the basis of National Curriculum
schools belong to local communities, some State gymnasiums have been established
schools use largely Erasmus+ international student exchange projects
broad possibilities for students to join out-of-school activities
different e-School opportunities are used in the educational system of Estonia

https://www.err.ee/975928/galeriid-ja-video-kohtla-jarvel-avas-uksed-uus-gumnaasium

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? Study materials and teaching methods in History and Civics.
Учебных материалах и методах для уроков истории и граждановедения.

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? Russian students in Estonian schools.
Русских учениках в эстонских школах.

Percentage of Estonian-speaking students in Estonia (and in some regions) during the period 1980 - 2018.

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? Estonian education in international comparision.
Образовании в Эстонии в сравнении с другим международным образованием.

PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) is an international survey conducted on the OECD’s (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) initiative which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students.
Students from randomly selected schools take tests in functional reading, mathematics and science.
PISA tests are held once every three years. Each year of assessment focuses on one of these subjects, with the other two assessed but to a lesser extent.
There have been five (?) PISA surveys:
PISA 2000 – reading
PISA 2003 – mathematics
PISA 2006 – natural sciences (Estonia participated)
PISA 2009 – reading (Estonia participated)
PISA 2012 – mathematics (Estonia participated)
PISA 2015 - natural sciences (Estonia participated)
A regularly conducted survey provides an opportunity to identify education trends worldwide.

PISA 2015 in Estonia
● 72 countries participated in total, including all developed industrialised countries.
● Half of all the 15-year-old students in Estonia, that is 5,587 students (2,788 girls and 2,799 boys) from 206 schools, took the PISA test.
● 78% of the students took the test in Estonian and 22% in Russian.
● In Estonia the test was completely in electronic form. The main focus of the survey was on sciences.
Estonian results in 2015
● The results are stable and very good in all subjects. Basic education provided in Estonia is one of the best in Europe and in the world.
● Very good results are achieved with lesser financial resources and shorter learning period than in other OECD countries.
● The number of top performers has increased across all evaluated subjects and the number of students with weak results in reading has diminished.
● The most progress has been made in functional reading, especially among boys.

The graph shows the changes in all literacies in Estonian students average PISA test results of 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2015. According to the test results the knowledge and skills of Estonian students have improved significantly.

IEA
IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) is an international cooperative of national research institutions, governmental research agencies, scholars, and analysts working to research, understand, and improve education worldwide.
IEA Studies
We conduct high-quality, large-scale comparative studies of education across the globe in order to provide educators, policymakers, and parents with insights into how students perform.

Civic knowledge and classroom practices
1. Estonian students were significantly above the international average on the civic knowledge scale (IEA 2009).
Estonia ranked 12th among 38 participating countries and was 2th among the post communist countries.
Students in only 5 countries were significantly better than Estonian pupils and 11 countries had a similar level of achievement as Estonia.
The latter group included, for example, England, Poland, Italy, Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
In addition to the high rank in 2009, Estonia was one of the very few countries where civic knowledge did not decrease during the previous ten years.
This finding is especially prominent compared to most of the participating post communist countries, which experienced a sharp drop in civic knowledge (except Slovenia). Only 8% of the students in Estonia were below the lowest proficiency level, which is half the ICCS average; the share of students at the highest proficiency level was 36% in Estonia compared to the 28% ICCS average.

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? Possibilities for foreign students to study in Estonia.
Возможностях обучения в Эстонии для иностранцев.
http://www.studyinestonia.ee/en