Posted on 06/30/2016 5:02:52 PM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard
Brian D. Ray, Ph.D.
June 7, 2016
The SAT 2014 test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year. Some 13,549 homeschool seniors had the following mean scores: 567 in critical reading, 521 in mathematics, and 535 in writing (College Board, 2014a). The mean SAT scores for all college-bound seniors in 2014 were 497 in critical reading, 513 in mathematics, and 487 in writing (College Board, 2014b). The homeschool students’ SAT scores were 0.61 standard deviation higher in reading, 0.26 standard deviation higher in mathematics, and 0.42 standard deviation higher in writing than those of all college-bound seniors taking the SAT, and these are notably large differences.
There were some demographic differences between homeschool students and all students taken together. First, the family incomes of the homeschool students were similar to those of all students. Regarding ethnicity, for example, 72 percent of the homeschool students were White, 5 percent were Asian, Asian American, or Pacific Islander, and 4 percent were Black or African American, while of all college-bound seniors, the corresponding percentages were 49, 12, and 13. The average highest level of parental education was notably higher for the homeschool students than for all students.
This point-in-time description of SAT scores simply shows that the test scores of homeschool students are higher than the national average for all students. No careful analysis has been done of these scores to determine whether certain background variables might statistically explain the differences in scores.
These relatively high SAT scores of home-educated students are consistent with their high SAT scores in preceding research and with research findings on the overall success of college students who were home educated (Gloeckner & Jones, 2013; Murphy, 2012; Ray & Eagleson, 2008).
References College Board. (2014a). SAT 2014 college-bound seniors state profile report, U.S. home school students. New York, NY: Author.
College Board. (2014b). SAT 2014 college-bound seniors total group profile report, total group. New York, NY: Author. Retrieved June 7, 2016 from https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/TotalGroup-2014.pdf
Gloeckner, Gene W., & Jones, Paul. (2013). Reflections on a decade of changes in homeschooling and homeschooled into higher education. Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 309-323.
Murphy, Joseph. (2012). Homeschooling in America: Capturing and assessing the movement. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, a Sage Company.
Ray, Brian D., & Eagleson, Bruce K. (2008, August 14). State regulation of homeschooling and homeschoolers’ SAT scores. Journal of Academic Leadership, 6(3). Retrieved March 4, 2013 from http://contentcat.fhsu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15732coll4/id/303/rec/1
But what about the socialization???/s
It’s really simple. Smarter parents take their kids out of public school and homeschool.
But then the result would be politically incorrect and therefore scientifically untenable.
This, of course, means home schooled kids must be placed back in public schools to equalize things.
For every A an excelling student makes, it must be lowered to a C and the leftover
A-C difference must be shared with a low achiever’s F to bring it up to a C for parity so the low achiever doesn’t lose self esteem and keep the playing field level.
Hurray for Homeschooling! Not every parent is qualified academically or of the correct temperment to teach their children. Those who are, go for it before someone outlaws this choice. Some public colleges already refuse to accept credits for classes passed via Home Schooling.
There need to be national standards of acceptability to receive course credit if these standards don’t already exist.
Bkmrk.
>> There need to be national standards of acceptability to receive course credit if these standards don’t already exist.
Lotta people don’t like Common Core.
Then it is obviously time to cook the books with a social justice warrier sAT bump up for those children unfortunate enough to be subjected to Common Slime...er...Common Crap...er ...Common Corpse.
Not necessarily. My kids have to public school from kindergarten. My oldest son goes to a high school in a lesser desirable neighborhood because they have an IB program. He scored a 1330 on his first SAT attempt and a 31 on his ACT with no prep class. It’s just that we are involved parents and he is a motivated student.
Helps to know who your parents are.
Yeah, Tom took it that year.
Socialization is an issue but it can usually be remediated with an intensive course in expletives and binge watching HBO. Homeschool kidd can catch up to public school kids in no time.
Good for you....
Daughter #2 also loves the public school but I don't know if it can provide for her needs and this is the year everything went common core. It's horrible. Daughter #2 loves all of the clubs and sports offered at school that we can't provide outside of school. For instance, she was an all-league sports player on Varsity in 8th grade. She had a great part in the musical The Music Man. She loves her team mates and has learned a lot about leadership and team work.
A major problem I noticed this year is that in a high level math course, students were allowed to take both the Regents final (NY state) and the Common Core Regents final (what will be given from here on out). The average score on the Regents was a 58 — yes, failing. The average on the Common Core was 78. These kids will be headed off to college with less than stellar math credentials. How in the world are they going to face college Calculus II, and common core is not preparing them for it.
If anyone could share some resources available for home schooling a HS student that has a learning disability, it would be greatly appreciated.
I was making a generalization, which I would have thought was obvious. Clearly, you and your family are an exception. I’ve also had one go thru public schools successfully, but that again was an exception.
It’s self-selecting statistics.
If you force homeschooler scores to be averaged with ESL, dysfunctional urban students and other underperforming students, the average would go down.
It’s not a slight on homeschooling, which is a good thing usually, but statistics is statistics. You do not want to give folks the impression that just by pulling a kid from one environment into another is alone responsible for improvement or degradation of scores.
That would be misleading.
Parents make the difference no matter where the kids go to school. Responsible parents who make sure their kids are educated, and not just book material, turn out superior kids.
Parents that sit back and rely on the teacher’s unions to raise their kids end up with Obama voters/bums.
It’s like gravity. Works every time.
Parents make the difference no matter where the kids go to school. Responsible parents who make sure their kids are educated, and not just book material, turn out superior kids.
Parents that sit back and rely on the teacher’s unions to raise their kids end up with Obama voters/bums.
It’s like gravity. Works every time.
You’re so right. Parents who care make a difference.
Parents who care, read to kids every night.
Parents who care, go to every PT meeting and check on progress of their kids.
Parents impose restrictions on kids who don’t live up to behavior and academic standards.
Parents care.
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