Although Slovak pupils have improved in financial literacy, they are still below the average of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This is shown in the OECD's international study PISA 2018. Slovakia has so far participated in all three cycles. Pupils in Italy achieved a comparable result to Slovak ones, but only Chile recorded a worse result. The analysis showed that the results of students are also influenced by their socio-economic background.
The Slovak Republic tested the financial literacy of 15-year-old pupils on a selected sample of 3,400 pupils from all types of schools involved in the PISA 2018 study. Compared to 2015, analysts recorded a statistically significant improvement in pupils' performance by 36 points. However, they note that this is an improvement of 11 points compared to 2012, so this is not such a significant difference. "This means that the performance of Slovak students achieved in 2018 is at the level of the result achieved in 2012," they said.
