Various Reasons For Calistung Test Entering Elementary School Are Removed

Illustration of elementary school students. (Between)

YOGYAKARTA Discourse on removing reading, writing, and counting tests aka calistung from the process of accepting New Student Participants (PPDB) in SD/MI/equivalent is finally officially valid. This means that children who will enter elementary school do not have to be able to be calistung. This abolition will take effect in the new academic year 2023/2024.

As is known, the calistung test is a test previously applied to children who have just entered the elementary / MI / equivalent school education stage. The test is in the form of a reading, writing, and calculating exam. The purpose of holding a calistung test is to map the willingness of students at the elementary school (SD) level.

Apart from the pros and cons related to the implementation of the calistung test for elementary/equivalent students, what underlies Minister Nadiem to remove the calistung test?

The elimination of the calistung test entering elementary school is one of three targets for the achievement of the 24th Anniversary Learning Episode Program with the title PAUD Transition to Fun Elementary School.

"The independence to learn the 24th episode is a policy that underlies the transition of PAUD to SD / MI / equivalent which is fun which will start from the new school year, so there are three achievement targets that must be carried out by the education unit," said Nadiem in Jakarta, Tuesday, March 28, quoted from Antara.

Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, Nadiem Makarim also explained that calistung tests have been prohibited through Government Regulation Number 17 of 2010 concerning Education Management and Implementation and Regulation of the Minister of Education and Culture Number 1 of 2021 concerning PPDB.

Nadiem also mentioned that not all children have ever had the opportunity to study in PAUD. For this reason, the calistung test is not appropriate to apply to all children to get basic education services.

Nadiem also mentioned that there was a misconception about the calistung in PAUD and SD. He said that the current ability of the delistacle is considered a single proof of the success of learning and being built instantly.

In the Launch of the Merdeka Learning episode of 24: PAUD Transition to Fun Elementary School, it was explained that many educational units were wrong in teaching students of the delistitutes.

"It doesn't mean that a calistung is not an important topic to teach in PAUD. I don't want there to be a misunderstanding here, the point is that there is a misconception that only the most important calistung and the way to teach its calistung is also wrong," said Nadiem, which was broadcast on YouTube. YouTube of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, recently.

Another misconception that the Minister of Education and Culture is that calistung teaching children is the task of educators in PAUD, not educators in elementary schools. Whereas it should have been the opposite.

"This is something that makes me annoyed that the calistung is used as a criterion for children entering elementary school. This is something that can no longer be tolerated and we ask for the help of all ladies and gentlemen in this room and those who watch it on YouTube to immediately eliminate this big error as if elementary schools throughout Indonesia have no responsibility at all regarding the delistration and that is PAUD's responsibility," said Nadiem.

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