U.S. math scores drop on major international test

Re:U.S. math scores drop on major international test by troyvit on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @04:42PM (#42381895)

Can't speak for the rest of the world, but my 8th grade daughter threatened to throw her iReady math test because she's tired of being tested when the tests don't affect her grades. My kids are over tested to the point that from their perspective the schools care more about testing than learning.

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Re:U.S. math scores drop on major international test by softwreoutthere on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @08:00PM (#42383561)

Maybe the school could stess the importance of performance on outcomes for their future as a group (like remediation in future lesson plans and so on)

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Re:U.S. math scores drop on major international test by adamredwoods on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @06:30PM (#42382898)

My child does not like the IReady UI, and feels it is detrimental to test taking.

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Re:U.S. math scores drop on major international test by hydrolox on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @05:05PM (#42382101)

Iready was horrible

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Re:U.S. math scores drop on major international test by trhway on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @04:59PM (#42382056)

>the tests don't affect her grades

Then what the grades are given for/based on?

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Re:U.S. math scores drop on major international test by jdminhbg on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @08:52PM (#42383866)

This seems unfairly downvoted as a sincere question.

The answer is that the types of standardized tests that these country-wide statistics are based on are not, in the US at least, the tests that generate your grades or your university admission.

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Re:U.S. math scores drop on major international test by rahimnathwani on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @01:10AM (#42385261)

IIRC iready is a formative assessment tool, i.e. the purpose is to diagnose where each student is at, so the teacher knows what to teach next.

There are also summative tests that are meant to measure performance in aggregate, but aren't used for student grades.

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