Girls from group 8 received a lower school advice again last school year than in the years before the corona pandemic. Boys received a higher advice, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported on Thursday.
Girls in group 8 of primary school received lower school advice in 2021 than for corona, while it was higher for boys. This is according to figures from a survey by Statistics Netherlands that will be published on Thursday. In 2020, all students received a lower recommendation, but now that only applies to girls.
Primary school pupils receive the first school advice for further education in group 8. In addition, they also make a final test, such as the CITO, which also produces a recommendation. That is the test advice. If this advice is higher than the previous school advice, the school may consider raising the final advice.
Statistics Netherlands states that girls more often obtain a higher test recommendation than their school recommendation. This means that girls are more likely than boys to have the school advice adjusted upwards. Yet this year, boys in particular seem to have benefited from this.
It is not possible to say with certainty what the cause of this trend is, but a corona effect is obvious. Students, especially girls, indicated that they suffer from psychological complaints due to the corona measures, such as school closures and lockdowns. This may have caused a backlog.