William Atkins
Wednesday, 10 December 2008 08:12
Science -
Biology
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The United States were equals to the students in the countries of Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. However, U.S. fourth-grade students still do worse than fourth-graders in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, England, and Russia.
The 2007 score for four-grade students in the United States increased by eleven (11) points over their 2003 score.
Eight-grade students from the United States also scored above the international average in mathematics. Their score was comparable to students from England, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary.
However, the score was still below several Asian countries. Their score was sixteen (16) points higher than what it was in 1995.
SCIENCE
In science, U.S. fourth-graders scored a 549, which was 49 points above the international average of (yes) 500. It was below the scores of students from Taipei, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore.
U.S. eighth-graders scored a 520, which was also above the international average for students in science.
The scores for U.S. students is counter from what most Americans think its students are doing in math and science. Most of the public believes that U.S. children are worsening in math and science when compared with the rest of the developed world.
This study says that this is not so. Please read page three for comments from one of its authors.
