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What Are Science & Math Test Scores Really Telling U.S.? -- part 2
This is one of series of clips from an article in THE BENT of TAU BETA PI -- Winter 2007 Clip 2 The performance of U.S. students on this test is not so easily brushed off. In 2003, the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OEDC), a group of 30 wealthy democratic nations, through their Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) assessed 15-year-olds, ranking each nation and grouping students into six levels based on math abilities.
Overall, U.S. students ranked 24th among 29 OEDC countries. Twenty-six percent of U.S. students fell into the bottom two math ability levels, compared to the OEDC average of 19 percent. Only 10 percent of U.S. students were in the top two levels, compared to 15 percent for the OEDC average. Roughly three-quarters of students in Finland scored above the mean of U.S. students taking the test. The results of the 2006 PISA (given every three years) would be available in 2007.
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