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ABCs of Test Taking:

ABCs of Test Taking:. A-accountability B-basic skills C-children. 1st Friday November 7, 2003. No Child Left Behind. Annual testing of all public school students in reading and math, grades 3-8 and high school, by the 2005-06 school year. The Need for Accountability.

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ABCs of Test Taking:

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  1. ABCs of Test Taking: A-accountabilityB-basic skillsC-children 1st Friday November 7, 2003

  2. No Child Left Behind • Annual testing of all public school students in reading and math, grades 3-8 and high school, by the 2005-06 school year.

  3. The Need for Accountability • A significant achievement gap exists between disadvantaged students and their more affluent peers, despite billions in Federal spending since 1965. • 60% of poor fourth-graders cannot read at a basic level. • U.S. students lag behind their international peers in key subjects.

  4. How The No Child Left Behind Accountability System Works • States design and implement annual tests in reading and math in grades 3-8 and high school • Federal government provides states with annual funding to design and implement tests ($387 million appropriated for Fiscal Year 2002).

  5. Why Test? • If we don’t test, we don’t know when children are falling behind. • If we don’t test every year, a child can lose a year or more – precious time that can’t be replaced.

  6. Average 4th grade reading scores SOURCE: National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1992–2000 Reading Assessments

  7. Reading Score Percentiles – 4th grade • High performing students show increase. • Low performing students show decrease. SOURCE: National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1992–2000 Reading Assessments.

  8. American Math Achievement SOURCE: National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1990, 1992, 1996, and 2000 Mathematics Assessments.

  9. The goal is 100 percent proficiency for all students in 12 years

  10. Fulfilling Education Reform’s Promise to Our Children • The academic achievement gap must be closed. • All children in America must have the chance to learn and succeed. • No child should be left behind.

  11. “This is education's moment. For the first time in years, our two major parties are in agreement on education. For these critical tasks, America's children depend on us. We must not thrust that burden onto our posterity. It is ours to bear.” -- U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, January 9, 2002

  12. Closing the Achievement Gap <http://www.ed.gov/nclb/overview/welcome/closing/index.html> (Retrieved) November 3,2003 • Rod Paige, Secretary of Education <http://www.yic.gov/paceea/adcom/paige.html> (Retrieved) November 4, 2003

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