'Italian students below OECD average for creative thinking'

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 8 - Italian students ranked below the OECD average for creative thinking, according to figures on Italy included in the PISA 2022 Creative Thinking survey presented on Tuesday at an Invalsi webinar.
    The PISA assessment was originally published in June.
    According to the survey, Italy on average scored 31 out of 60 points, below the OECD average of 33, over its students' ability to generate diverse and original ideas and to evaluate and improve them across a range of contexts.
    The best overall results were obtained by Singapore while Estonia was the winner in Europe, followed by Finland and Denmark.
    In Italy, 76% of students obtained a basic level of creative thinking, in line with the OECD average, with lycées achieving an average of 34 points compared to the 24 points of professional institutes.
    Students with good creative thinking overall excelled in math, reading and science with math being the subject matter most related to creativity in Italy, In terms of gender difference, girls scored higher than boys with an average difference of two points compared to an OECD average of three.
    Another issue analysed by the PISA survey was the socio-economic condition of students with the most well-off obtaining on average an additional 8.6 points compared to their disadvantaged peers. (ANSA).