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Nation’s Report Card 2012

By Karl Priest June 25, 2012

SCIENCE SCORES STINK
(2012 and before and beyond—check the West Virginia News in the future)
Note: This headline is provided by Karl Priest.

Karl’s comment: The excerpts from the articles below demonstrate the extreme con job that has condemned government schooled students to downright dummyness. Only people engrossed with American Idol who will not read carefully and comprehend (or don’t read anything other than the headline) would fall for the farce that science scores are praiseworthy. Making sure that students are thoroughly indoctrinated in evolutionism has only escalated the serious problem. I have inserted other comments (in bold red) within the news excerpts.

State students must do better in science (May 22, 2012)
http://www.exponent-telegram.com/opinion/editorials/article_b7678bda-a457-11e1-a8cf-0019bb2963f4.html
From the article: There is good news and bad news in the latest assessment of state students’ proficiency in science. (Taken over the years it is largely bad!)

The bad news is that only 24 percent of the state’s public school eighth-graders scored as “proficient” last year on an exam that measured content knowledge in physical science, life science and earth and space sciences. (Nationally, 29 percent of eighth-graders earned “proficient” scores.) (Only fools would shop in food stores with that bad of a health department record!)

Only 39 percent of West Virginia’s eighth-graders scored at the “basic” level of science knowledge, while 37 percent scored at the “below basic” level. (Would you use a medical doctor who graduated from a med school that was so lousy?)

Altogether, the Mountain State’s average score was lower than 29 other states. (That is outrageous!)

The scores are from the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation’s Report Card*, which defines proficiency as academic performance at grade level, including subject-matter knowledge, application of that knowledge to real-world situations and analytical skills appropriate to the subject matter.

The good news is that West Virginia students’ science scores are improving. (If the scores had been lousy and now are slightly less lousy, then that is an improvement, but not worthy of praise!)

The percentage of eighth-graders who scored as “proficient” in 2011 was up 3 percent from 2009. The percentage of state students who scored at the “basic” level last year was up 3 percent from two years ago. And the percentage of state students who scored at the “below basic” level dropped 5 percent...As would be expected, state education officials emphasized the good news in the science proficiency scores. (Up 3% is nothing to brag about if it is still tremendously low. For example, if you are ten feet below water and you get pulled up about 3 inches, you are still in a heap of trouble!)

25 percent of W.Va. 8th-graders proficient in science (May 12, 2012)
http://www.register-herald.com/statenews/x1640795477/25-percent-of-W-Va-8th-graders-proficient-in-science
From the article: West Virginia’s eighth-graders perform worse in science than their peers nationwide, with only 25 percent with a solid grasp of the subject.

One percent scored at the “advanced” level, unchanged from 2009. Nationally...2 percent (scored) at the advanced level.

Proficiency is defined as solid academic performance at grade level, including subject-matter knowledge, application of such knowledge to real-world situations, and analytical skills appropriate to the subject matter.

“These latest science results are encouraging,” said state schools Superintendent Jorea Marple. “We need to inspire children to take a greater interest in science, technology, engineering and math. In addition, we need to encourage young people to become science and math teachers to inspire the young scientists of tomorrow. I hope these results are a sign of a resurgence of interest in science.” (This is why tax-payers pay big bucks to school officials. It is like me hiring someone to tell me I am good looking. It is a lie, but it makes me feel batter. If students are to be inspired, they need to be freed of government school shackles and–in the case of science—the lie of evolutionism!)

Also known as the Nation’s Report Card, NAEP is the only nationally representative measure of what U.S. students know and can do in various subject areas.

The exam measured content knowledge in physical science, life science, and earth and space sciences.

Cordeiro stressed that aside from test scores, state education leaders place a high priority on personalized learning and overall student growth from the beginning of the school year to the end. (Translated: State education leaders will use weak or meaningless measures to report student “success”!) “The overall move in all of our curriculum hopefully has had an impact, not only in science, but as we see growth in reading, as we see growth in math,” (We do not see that! See previous reports.) she said. “We’re really focused on ... having the student being the leader of their own learning.” (Then led them have true education freedom!)
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*The Nation’s Report Card informs the public about the academic achievement of elementary and secondary students in the United States. The report card is prepared by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) which is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. NAEP has two major goals : to compare student achievement in states and other jurisdictions and to track changes in achievement of fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-graders over time.

Since NAEP assessments are administered uniformly using the same sets of test booklets across the nation, NAEP results serve as a common metric for all states

The Commissioner of Education Statistics, who heads the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education, is responsible by law for carrying out the NAEP project.

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See the 2011 Nation's Report Card.

For lots of information about national testing see Education’s Armageddon.

Also see my articles “Down the Drain ” (2009), “Public School Systems are Neglecting Black Students,” and “The Public School System is Broken” (2007). You will need to scroll down to find these articles.

More information about government schools is found at West Virginia News.

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For lots of information about national testing see Education’s Armageddon.