Students in Danish schools impress with creative thinking, according to new Pisa results. Danish school students have proven to be skilled in creative thinking, revealed the latest results from the Pisa survey. The students achieved an average score of 35.5 points on a scale from 0 to 60, which is significantly above the international average of 32.7 points. These results emerged in a report prepared by the research and analysis center Vive in collaboration with Statistics Denmark. The Pisa survey, funded by the Ministry of Children and Education, is an international evaluation of 15-year-olds’ skills. Denmark is among the 14 out of 64 participating countries that performed above average in the survey, organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The survey focuses on students’ ability to generate ideas through tasks such as developing film plots and finding solutions to environmental problems. Minister of Children and Education Mattias Tesfaye (S) finds the results “uplifting” and points out that students’ creative abilities are independent of the school they attend. “It shows that we have a school system where we, across the country, promote students’ ability to work creatively with ideas and solutions,” he said in a press release. He emphasizes that the difference in performance between Danish schools is very small – only seven percent – which is the smallest difference among the participating countries. By comparison, the average difference between schools in other countries is 25.7 percent. In total, approximately 7,800 students from 347 educational institutions in Denmark participated in Pisa 2022.

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