Nationally, about 533,100 students took part.
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· In math, Oregon’s average fourth grade score was 283 compared to 284 in 2013. Between 50 percent and 73 percent of black students reached that standard. The test is administered by the National Center for Education Statistics.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said the scores “should give pause to anyone who still wishes to double down on austerity and make competition, scapegoating teachers, closing rather than fixing schools, fear, and testing and sanctioning the dominant education strategies”.
“NAEP serves as an external audit on student achievement”.
“I think the reason that we’ve had a rise in our test scores is because, of our, Choctaw county’s high expectations and requirements that we’ve had in place for several years now”, Ackerman Elementary school teacher Christi Turnipseed said. Plus, the drops, while significant enough to call attention to, are also not seismic: Fourth-grade math scores dropped two points; eighth-grade math scores dropped three points compared to 2013.
However, eighth-grade proficiency was 5 points below the national average in math and 4 points below the national average in reading. -For reading, scores were higher for fourth-graders in 13 states and jurisdictions, including the District of Columbia – up seven points. North Carolina fourth graders are reading four points above the national average. The Common Core standards were developed by the states with the support of the administration. Fourth grade math scores were relatively unchanged, in keeping with the rest of the nation. “We need to exercise caution until we see the results from the 2017 assessment”.
Missouri was one of 12 states that did not see a significant change, up or down, in reading and math scores, according to the nation’s report card released Wednesday. Students are tested on standards that differ in both content and sequencing from those assessed by Maryland’s state tests. “This is really hard work and big change rarely happens overnight”, he said.
Balow says despite Wyoming’s decent scores, there’s still room to improve.
Douglas, however, was more skeptical.
The tests are a national measure of what students know in math and reading, dating back to 1990. “We continue to perform well as a district, surpassing students across the nation”, superintendent Paul Cruz said in a news release.
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Mississippi’s scores remain near the bottom among states on 4th and 8th grade tests of reading and math, and 8th grade scores were flat in both subjects from 2013 to 2015.
