The “emergency” Maturity, without written tests but with a paper on the main subjects, prepared beforehand, and with the maxi-oral, longer than usual? A formula that, according to the graduates, should also be adopted for the 2022 exam, replicating what happened in the two-year period 2020-2021. This was supported by 7 out of 10 young people, among the 2,500 high school students interviewed in these days by the Skuola.net portal, precisely in the weeks when the time is approaching to understand what direction the Ministry of Education will take for next June.
Save the Italian theme
Simonetta Agnello Hornby
The reason that prompts so many young people to clamor for “light” maturity? The overwhelming majority (77%) is convinced that, although teaching has been taking place practically always in the presence since September, the negative effects of Dad have inexorably marked the last three years of their career, preventing them from preparing themselves as best as possible to face a complete exam. . In fact, for 90% of the interviewees, whatever the exam format chosen by the Ministry, the negative effects of distance learning will have an impact on preparation. While 13%, always among the promoters of reduced maturity, underline the practicality of such a test, especially to comply with the anti-Covid rules. The remaining part (10%), however, makes a broader speech, saying that the classic exam is now outdated as a method of evaluation.
The school does not kill the Italian theme, the children need a blank sheet
paola mastrocola
The belief that reduced maturity is an excellent yardstick is so deeply rooted in children that, projecting forward, they would make it structural, confirming it for the years to come, regardless of Covid. Almost 9 out of 10 think so. Of course, most (66%) admit that adjustments would be needed – also because many (68%) recognize that removing writings facilitates the task – but it is a fact that this formula like it; for 20% it is even perfect as it is. Just as, for 71%, the composition of the commissions should be confirmed: all internal professors and only the external president. Only for 14% of the total sample, once the pandemic has passed, the traditional exam should return.
Corrections that, for some, should be introduced as early as the next round. About 1 out of 10, in fact, for 2022 would like to add the written Italian to the long oral and the elaborate (giving reason to those who are pushing to return the “queen” test to the exam); while 7% would replace the paper with the second test on the main subjects, always keeping the maxi-oral. Even if, all in all, 90% promote the paper, as an absolutely suitable tool for measuring the level of skills achieved by the student: for 46% it is a worthy alternative to the second written, for 44% it is even better.
As mentioned, however, there is a slice of loyalists, quite consistent (14%) who do not give up and defend the classic exam with the sword (two writings plus the normal oral), to be returned to the saddle already at the end of this school year. Not so much for contingent issues – among them only 1 in 4 think that the hardest phase of the pandemic has passed, allowing them to carry out all the tests in person – but for personal reasons: about half (48%) at the end of their journey would like grapple with a complete maturity, many others (27%) only in this way would they have the certainty of being judged as they deserve.
Maturity, Sasso: let’s go back to the written test
In any case, whatever decision is taken, the graduates hope that the Ministry will soon: almost 2 out of 3 would like to have definitive news by Christmas, especially if the exam changes again; about a third (32%) would be satisfied to know more by January-February, but only if the structure proposed in 2021 is not touched at all; just 4%, again if the maturity of the Covid era continued, would wait for spring.
“While politics and public opinion are debating on the fate of 2022 graduates – comments Daniele Grassucci, director of Skuola.net – the students are asking first of all a simple thing: clarity on the rules with which they will have to face the Maturity exam. A clarity that has often been lacking in these two years, given the sensational turnarounds that have often been witnessed on fundamental issues such as back to school in the presence, with related protocols. And they suggest to Minister Bianchi to adopt a formula similar to that of the previous two years: maxi-oral with internal commission. It is not an attitude aimed at avoiding difficulties, the boys do not want to back down. But that the exam is aligned with the skills actually gained in these three years: the Dad did not work or did not last equally everywhere, so it is impossible to carry out national written tests adequate to the level of each reality “.
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