[YAPA] Grading science education

[robert.pendzick]

There was a study that clearly showed that students in the US preformed better 
when they lived in states near Canada.  There is a TIMMS report that shows one 
clear connection for student success and that is family income. (Worldwide!)

I guess we have a question "Does having a high grade in this report coincide 
with success measures of students in science?
My guess is it does not, since it is very hard to move an average....
and so why has such an effort been put into these "creations"?

Robert Pendzick

>===== Original Message From Sharon Shanks <slshanks at ysu.edu> =====
>----- Forwarded message from michael crescimanno <mcrescim at cc.ysu.edu> -----
>    Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:58:16 -0500
>    From: michael crescimanno <mcrescim at cc.ysu.edu>
>Reply-To: michael crescimanno <mcrescim at cc.ysu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [YAPA] Grading science education
>      To: Sharon Shanks <slshanks at ysu.edu>, "Trittmann, Uwe"
><UTrittmann at otterbein.edu>, "Elizabeth K. Mann" <emann at kent.edu>,
>jeschonnek.1 at osu.edu, cjohlem at uakron.edu, brtrees at owu.edu, "Trexler, 
Frederick
>D." <ftrexler at arbor.edu>, rwb at cwru.edu
>
>Sharon Shanks wrote:
>
>>Interesting article. Ohio gets a "B" grade - what do you think? Too high? 
Too
>>low? Just right?
>>
>>http://www.edexcellence.net/foundation/about/press_release.cfm?id=20
>>Sharon
>>
>>
>Hi Sharon,
>
>    I found that quite interesting...I am forwarding it to some of the
>OSAPS leadership for
>their thoughts. An aside; are my eyes deceiving me OR did the red states
>fare
>significantly better on this grading than the blue states? Someone
>should really
>compute the statistic and see if it is significant, if only for the
>supressed smiles...
>
>michael
>
>----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
>--
>Sharon Shanks
>Ward Beecher Planetarium
>Youngstown State University
>
>Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
>                                             Martin H. Fischer
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