If the National Assessment Governing Board approves ACT's recommendations, the new standards will be used for the first time in 2004, when the NAEP
12th grade math test introduces substantial...
Not exact matches
In particular, since 2001 (that is, since NCLB was passed), there have been sizable gains in NAEP 4th - and 8th -
grade math tests, small improvements in 4th - and 8th -
grade reading
tests, and very little change in
12th -
grade scores.
Currently, WIAT, PIAT and K - TEA achievement
tests score only to
grade level 12.9 (end of
12th grade, or Algebra I level in
math, similar level in other subjects).
Among African American
12th grade students
tested, seven percent are proficient or better in
math and 16 percent are proficient or better in reading (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2013)
The main National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading and mathematics
tests will be administered as usual in 2015, but NAEP will cut the science sample size in
grades 4 and 8 and will not expand the
12th grade reading,
math, and science samples as previously planned.
The overall score decreases were quite small — roughly two points in
math and a single point in reading — but continued a trend of lackluster
12th -
grade performance on the national
test.
What about the 11th
grade math test that included topics that aren't taught until
12th grade or the 5th
grade questions that were simply wrong?
The Common Core State Standards, created in response to American students» poor standing on international academic
tests and applicable to public schools only, are a set of rigorous
math and English Language Arts benchmarks that spell out what skills students should be able to perform every year from kindergarten through
12th grade.