[Phys-L] Re: NAEP math:Can 8th graders do fractions, decimals, percents?

[Robert.Cohen at PO-BOX.ESU.EDU (Robert Cohen)]

> The NAEP has publicly released more than 500 items from its
> mathematics tests. In the first section of this report, after
> reviewing test data released in 2004, we analyze a sample of
> NAEP items and discover that the mathematics required to
> solve many of the problems is extraordinarily easy.

Maybe not to surprising when you consider the test teachers must pass to
become "highly qualified" middle school math teachers in PA:

<ftp://ftp.ets.org/pub/tandl/0069.pdf>

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East Stroudsburg University; E. Stroudsburg, PA 18301