Test scores show modest gains in mathematics

[alp227]

Source: CNN

Fourth and eighth grade students scored higher in mathematics last spring than anytime since the Nation's Report Card began measuring their performance decades ago, data showed Tuesday.

But while noting "modest progress," Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said achievement by America's students is "not accelerating fast enough..."

The one point increase was a continuation of a gradual climb in mathematics scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) over the last twenty years. Students are assessed on a 500 point scale.

In reading, the fourth grader's scores in spring 2011 were statistically the same as those in 2009, but the eighth graders average score rose by one point.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/01/us/math-scores/index.html

[Lars77]

1. In other words, teachers are beginning to learn how to make students do better on the test.

These kinds of national tests are worthless and only encourages rigging of the system.

[IamK]

2. hopefully they added up the scores correctly.... n/t