American Education! Enjoy!
Nov. 18th, 2004 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingThe national test of student math skills is filled with easy questions, raising doubts about recent gains in achievement tests, a study contends.
On the eighth-grade version of the test, almost 40 percent of the questions address skills taught in first or second grade,
"I contend that if we do what he suggests, moving to much more complex skills, it would be akin to giving a test in Russian," Sharif Shakrani, deputy executive director of the assessment governing board, said. "We already are not doing well. If you increase the cognitive function of the math concepts and the way you test them, you will end up with scores so low you will not be able to make sense of the results."
On the eighth-grade version of the test, almost 40 percent of the questions address skills taught in first or second grade,
"I contend that if we do what he suggests, moving to much more complex skills, it would be akin to giving a test in Russian," Sharif Shakrani, deputy executive director of the assessment governing board, said. "We already are not doing well. If you increase the cognitive function of the math concepts and the way you test them, you will end up with scores so low you will not be able to make sense of the results."