The NAEP, the biggest nationally representative assessment of the nation’s students, is given to a sample of students every two years.
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In reading, 36 percent of Maine’s fourth-graders scored “proficient or better”, compared with 35 percent nationally, and 36 percent of Maine’s eighth-graders scored “proficient or better”, compared with 33 percent nationally.
Oregon’s fourth- and eighth-graders this year performed nearly exactly the same on national reading and math tests as two years earlier: quite average overall, with below-average performance for white students.
“JCPS volunteers to participate in this fourth- and eighth-grade testing program as another assessment of how we are doing, particularly with regard to closing the achievement gap for minority students”, Dr. Donna M. Hargens, JCPS Superintendent, said.
During a call with reporters on Tuesday, Haslam and Education Commissioner Candice McQueen bristled at the characterization of this year’s scores as flat and argued that the new scores show that Tennessee’s academic ascendancy continues.
While higher than the national average, Ohio’s results were lower than the state’s 2013 NAEP scores.
Math scores dropped from a 47 percent pass rate to a 40 percent pass rate this year. National data include students in private schools, while local data include only public school districts. Across the nation, math scores dropped in grade 4 and 8; reading stayed the same in grade 4 but dropped in grade 8.
Scores in fourth-grade math and eighth-grade reading were stagnant.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress scores range on separate scales from 0 to 500.
The 2015 NAEP scores are based on tests given to nearly 600,000 students in almost 14,000 schools.
According to the poll, about 56 percent of Iowans ages 18 and older said they had a positive view of the new standards, compared with 29 percent with a negative view and 15 percent who were not sure. “This is really hard work and big change rarely happens overnight”.
– This year’s gains don’t set any new high scores for Cleveland, which has participated in the voluntary tests since 2003.
The National Assessments of Educational Progress stand as a constant measure of student achievement against a backdrop of ever-changing state benchmarks.
NAEP is a truth teller. Unlike most standardized tests, the NAEP assessments are generally quick, completed in about an hour, impossible to game, and reported anonymously, so they’re completely without stakes. However, the eighth-grade score dropped by 2 points in that time to 265. You could see the effects of good, national policy reflected in NAEP gains. The average score for white students was 24 points higher, slightly smaller than the 26-point gap in 2013.
Eighth-grade reading, 34% of students scored at or above proficient, a two percentage point decline from 2013.
The percentage of black fourth-graders reading at Proficient and Advanced levels on NAEP in 2015. Likewise, he attributed increases in Kentucky, Delaware, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi and North Carolina to their early embrace of the Common Core. Meanwhile 20 percent of young women in eighth-grade read Below Basic, a two point increase over 2013 and unchanged from 2002. A few months ago, we saw a significant drop in SAT scores-7 points in one year alone.
As for state results, they varied.
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The fans of reforms are already beginning the spin. Maryland scores are 17 points ahead of where they were in 2000.
