The analysis of the participation of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in the PISA international assessment study

Abstract

This article is devoted to investigating the participation of two Central Asian countries in the PISA international assessment study. It is important to consider that Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan started modernizing and implementing foreign experience in their education system after gaining their independence. Both countries should have assessed their general secondary education system to evaluate the results of their reforms. Kazakhstan made its first step by participating in PISA in 2009. Uzbekistan only started this participation in the PISA-2022 assessment study. The systematic analysis of the documents of both countries reveals that they aim to achieve higher results in this research in a short time. The comparative analysis of the PISA-2022 results of both countries and their preparation for this international study helped to discover the problems related to their education system. This article also studied the factors that have made a contribution to the results of both countries. Analysing the reports made by the OECD about the PISA-2022 study helped to come to some conclusions. Finding solutions for the problems in general secondary education in post-soviet countries by comparative analysis is one of the main purposes of this article.