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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: National tests
One needn't buy the assumption that "we're doing so badly." American 8th graders finished 9th among 45 nations in TIMSS science and above average in math. The finished 7th among 29 OECD nations in PISA. I imagine that the argument was cast in terms of contrasting the proportion of students states say are proficient against the usually much lower proportions that NAEP says are proficient. But the NAEP achievement levels are horribly off. They've been rejected by everyone who has ever studied them. I wrote "Oh, those NAEP achievement levels" as my September 2005 column in Principal Leadership and will send separately as I have to convert it to a text file first. Alas, the prediction made therein has come true.
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