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That chart for reading proficiency among 12th graders is rather... shocking. Is there similar data for other countries available? It'd be interesting to know i
by fiblye 7y ago
That chart for reading proficiency among 12th graders is rather... shocking.
Is there similar data for other countries available? It'd be interesting to know if this is an issue unique to America (among developed nations), shared among English-speaking countries, or if it's a problem equally distributed across the world.
- csa 7y agoEhhh... it uses some terms of art that might be slightly misleading to those not familiar with the field. The chart specifically lists “proficient” and “advanced” at 12th grade. What do those words mean? https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/reading/achieveall.asp#2009_grade12 https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/reading/achieveall.asp... For “proficient”, the “inferences” and “interpretative statements” components will rule out most readers. For reference, these are some of the skills that higher level SAT and GRE reading questions attempt to evaluate. The way one could (somewhat crudely) relabel that data is “what percentage of 12 graders could plausibly read college-level texts”. Interestingly, the college attendance numbers match these percentages fairly closely.