Posted on 06/21/2004 6:10:18 AM PDT by Jim Noble
On of my daughters is in first grade at a local Christian school. She just took her first standardized test, the Stanford Achievement Test.
She scored fifth, sixth, and seventh-grade equivalent in all subjects (except one), and was at or above the 99%ile in all subjects (except one).
That one is called "environment", and she was below average for grade.
"Environment" has sub-categories, two of which are "political science" and "economics", in which she did especially poorly.
Now, she is actually pretty knowledgeable for a seven year old about both politics and economics (except that she is more of a Bushbot than her Dad).
What kind of polysci and econ questions are on the Stanford Achievement Test? Is the test biased against VRWC daughters?
I don't actually care (I already know she's smart, and I already know the school does a good job), but if these national tests have a political scoring bias, I'd like to know.
We're going to have to work really hard to dumb down this Noble girl. Designate her as ADD/ADHD. /NEA bureaucrat
Yes, the test questions are very biased.
Christian School Standford Achievement results
The score in the so called 'Environment' portion of the test seems pretty biased towards those better 'brainwashed' by the 'new values' of public education...in the long term those in private schools will fare better... as 'real world' job market seems to favor those whose early competency in reading writing and arithmatic leads to greater competency for life...
I doubt the 'environment' portion of the tests reveal much other than who watches more TV than the others
imo
Nothing like a little FReasearch to start the week!
Also, now that you KNOW your child is exceedingly bright, there is a GOOD chance that she will lose attention to mundane teaching regarding topics she already has knowledge of. This can lead to the school suspecting that she is an ADD case.
My oldest sounds exactly like yours (intelligence-level at that age), and went through something similar. I had to move him to a private school for two years, and even they couldn't keep him interested.
We ended up homeschooling, and he has been doing college-level biology, calculus/advanced mathematics, and writing novels (only 15). And to think that they wanted to put him on drugs. Hmmph.
Good for you! Oh how I wish homeschooling was legal when my youngest son was school age. His schooling was a nightmare. He is near genius and the schools simply didn't know what to do with him. I taught him all he knows, but we had to suffer through all the labeling and other idiotic "teaching" methods for 12 years. He turned out alright in spite of them.
ping
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