Chinese students ranked top for reading, math and science in a global survey. The survey found that year-old students from Beijing, Shanghai, and the eastern provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang ranked top for all three core subjects, achieving the highest level 4 rating. Students from the United States were ranked level 3 for reading and science, and level 2 for math, while teens from Britain scored a level 3 ranking in all three categories.
Singapore took top spot in the survey and placed second this year, though the difference in its score compared to the four regions of China was not considered "statistically significantly different," according to the study. Read More. Impressive performance. Lifelong learning. The result was so shocking that many people assume that it must have been an aberration. Some feel that the students may not have been prepared for the test.
Others believe that the students may have been tested in English, which they were not proficient in actually, all students were tested in their medium of instruction. Still, others feel that the performance must have been poor because only government schools were tested — our private school students would have done much better.
But a well-publicized study by Education Initiatives EI in and repeated in established that even students of our top schools would perform well below the international average in grade 4. The mentality that questions can be only from the textbook. In a simplified diagram of the U. This is a sharp contrast with other schools systems around the world. In Germany, for example, there is much less variation in each school.
Student test scores are clustered closely together under each roof. But there are greater differences between schools with the least advantaged schools scoring much lower than the wealthiest schools. In this case, no one in the least advantaged schools is approaching the the scores of the most advantaged schools. Why the U. Even if the family incomes are similar in each school, American schools might have more cultural diversity with some families emphasizing the importance education more than others.
In other cases, there might be a wide range of incomes in a large high school and student performance mirrors that wide range. Other scholars have come to the same conclusion in their analysis of international test scores. Although the debate over interpreting the data is likely to continue, one thing seems clear. We need to rethink reform.
While it is vital to fix dysfunctional schools where too few students can read well and add fractions, these PISA test results show that we also need to understand what goes wrong at our most functional and revered suburban schools where the bottom students get left behind.
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