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Things they actually tested (or at least, a sample): http://www.oecd.org/site/piaac/Education%20and%20Skills_online%20sample%20items.ppt http://www.oecd.org/sit

Things they actually tested (or at least, a sample): http://www.oecd.org/site/piaac/Education%20and%20Skills_online%20sample%20items.ppt http://www.oecd.org/site/piaac/Education%20and%20Skills_onli... I was surprised by the quality. These seem like really good tests of general competence. This gives a lot of weight to the results.

jamesaguilar 13y ago
To be fair, we've been getting our butts kicked in primary education for many decades, and it hasn't killed us yet. Betimes everyone was scared that Japan would take us over because their kids were so much "smarter" than ours, and look what happened to that. Which is not to say I wouldn't love for us to do better on these tests, but it's also hard for me to summon terror over them either.