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Not to diminish the achievement, but the chosen metrics seem pretty narrow. Why no mention of 5th grade reading level? Or second grade math? It gives the impres
by Workaccount2 1y ago
Not to diminish the achievement, but the chosen metrics seem pretty narrow. Why no mention of 5th grade reading level? Or second grade math? It gives the impression that the author is extrapolating from outliers rather and identifying a student body wide trend. Especially when no insight to what is driving this is given.
- alwa 1y agoThose are the only grade levels at which the NAEP is administered. https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/guides/scores_achv.aspx https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/guides/scores_achv.asp... I’d be more worried if the author stepped beyond their scope, and went from observing results to speculating without evidence about what drove the changes. It seems like enough to say “here’s a big signal that goes counter to the stories we’ve been telling ourselves, it’s worth doing some work to figure out what’s going on.”
- etempleton 1y agoCertain grade levels are considered milestones and national tests are associated.
- buggerme 1y agoThe metric of “random social media commenter” is too narrow to have impact. But you put it out there. The smart people doing it again…ignoring their own statistical irrelevance while challenging other’s statistics as somehow inconsequential.