Test scores for 2014-15
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Anonymous
See this website. https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/faq.asp#12 It is a complex process to find representative American students but very few sit for the exams. It is only given every three years - will next happen in Fall 2015 in the U.S. Interestingly the kids who take it only learn the morning of the test that they will be doing it. |
Anonymous
Are you saying that DC is doing this, or that the consortium is doing this for all the states that are using it? |
Anonymous
BASIS kids take PISA and kick ass all over the world............ |
Anonymous
| will be interesting to know how DC kids do or even if we have enough kids to be part of their selection process. |
Anonymous
The standardized tests are not for the purpose of evaluating the performance of individual students. They are for the purpose of evaluating the school system. IOW, it's not useful for you at all, but nobody ever intended that it be useful FOR YOU. (Yes, it is that bass-ackwards.) |
Anonymous
yeah we have one of those teachers in our schools he told us it took 17 seconds to evaluate English essays - and he is, pardon my language, a damn good English teacher but is what Pearson wants what our students need? We are now only 11 state as we started out at around 30. I say rely on the NAEP and nothing else, and all these districts are wasting a huge amount of money now that Pearson has admitted that the tests do not help you help the kids the following year................ don't remember what the exact quote was, but it spoke volumes and third graders who can type essays in poor districts like ours are just of course all over the place......... I bet you my son, who got an 799/800 on the math portion of the DC CAS last year in 4th grade is going to flail on Pearson because of the "explain your answer in English" part of the math test. Got all A's in Algebra I at BASIS DC last year. He is our canary in the coal mine. We get his scores, if they are inconsistent, we pull all our kids out next year - not that they are all at BASIS yet, or that any of them were at schools that taught to the test, but we could do a lot of better things with our family over those six days |
Anonymous
INTERNATIONALLY COMPETITIVE 2014 PISA for Charters Students at BASIS charter schools once again tested above the highest-ranked school systems in the world, as well as substantially above U.S. students, on the OECD Test for Schools (Based on PISA). This year, for the first time, four BASIS schools were eligible to participate: BASIS Chandler, BASIS Oro Valley, BASIS Scottsdale, and BASIS Tucson North. On average, students in these schools scored higher than Shanghai, the world's highest performing school system, in Reading, Math and Science. BASIS Scottsdale and BASIS Tucson North participated in the pilot for the OECD Test for Schools in 2012, while this was the first time BASIS Chandler and BASIS Oro Valley were eligible to participate in the OECD program. The exam was administered last spring. The OECD Test for Schools (based on PISA) is a student assessment tool geared for use by schools and networks of schools to support research, benchmarking and school improvement efforts. The assessment tool provides descriptive information and analyses on the skills and creative application of knowledge of 15-year-old students in reading, mathematics, and science, comparable to existing PISA scales. Among the results: All of the eligible BASIS schools outscored such other high scoring countries as Singapore, Korea, Finland and Switzerland. All of the eligible BASIS schools have scores that put them in the top 5% of all schools in the world in Reading, Math and Science, with two exceptions: BASIS Scottsdale is among the top 1% of all schools in the world in Reading, and BASIS Oro Valley is among the top 10% of schools in math worldwide. On average, 56% of all students who took the OECD in BASIS schools scored in the highest categories (5 & 6) in math. In the U.S., only 10% of students scored in these categories, while in BASIS Scottsdale 63% scored in those categories, and 56% of students in Shanghai scored in these categories. According to these results, the average BASIS student is 2 ½ to 3 years ahead of the average American student in Reading, Math, and Science. All of the eligible BASIS schools scored better on the OECD Test for Schools than the average U.S. private school did in 2009 on the PISA exam, in Reading, Math and Science. |
Anonymous
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Im only a humble BASIS parent look on the website - couldn't post the link
any BASIS website but I believe PISA is important and matters more than NAEP.......... |
Anonymous
| PISA matters in the sense that our low math scores help explain why so many young adults don't have the math abilities and related science and IT abilities to get a job in a STEM field. That's one reason why a lot of those jobs in the US go to immigrants. |
Anonymous
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Dumbing down of texts in American public schools over the past fifty years...
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ909920.pdf |
Anonymous
| I thought the STEM IT jobs are outsourced now because that is even cheaper than having immigrants do them. |