US fourth and eighth graders show improvement in science
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.0210170
Washington Post : The 2015 US National Assessment of Educational Progress indicates that fourth- and eighth-grade students scored four points higher in science than did their counterparts in 2009. High school seniors, however, performed about the same as those in 2009. The Nation’s Report Card, as the assessment is sometimes called, has been administered for decades, with exams given every two years in math and reading and less often in science and other subjects. Because the science test was substantially revised in 2009, however, current test results can’t be compared with those from pre-2009 years. Although the data show positive improvements in student performance, there are no data to show why the students did better.