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  2. No Child Left Behind Act - Wikipedia

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    America's nine-year-olds age group, posted the best scores in reading (since 1971) and math (since 1973) in the history of the report. America's 13-year-olds earned the highest math scores the test ever recorded. Reading and math scores for black and Hispanic nine-year-olds reached an all-time high.

  3. Mathematics (UIL) - Wikipedia

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    The test for Grades 9-12 covers algebra I and II, geometry, trigonometry, math analysis, analytic geometry, pre-calculus, and elementary calculus. For Grades 6-8 each school may send up to three students per division. In order for a school to participate in team competition in a division, the school must send three students in that division.

  4. Test score - Wikipedia

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    A test score is a piece of information, usually a number, that conveys the performance of an examinee on a test. One formal definition is that it is "a summary of the evidence contained in an examinee's responses to the items of a test that are related to the construct or constructs being measured."

  5. Standardized test - Wikipedia

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    While the "predictive power of test scores has gone up," the report adds, "the predictive power of high school grades has gone down." [76] Test scores enable UC schools "to select those students from underrepresented groups who are more likely to earn higher grades and to graduate on time."

  6. ACT (test) - Wikipedia

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    The ACT has eliminated the Combined English/writing score and has added two new combined scores: ELA (an average of the English, Reading, and Writing scores) and STEM (an average of the Math and Science scores). [27] [28] These changes for the writing, ELA, and STEM scores were effective starting with the September 2015 test. [29]

  7. Validity (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Construct validity refers to the extent to which operationalizations of a construct (e.g., practical tests developed from a theory) measure a construct as defined by a theory. It subsumes all other types of validity. For example, the extent to which a test measures intelligence is a question of construct validity.

  8. Mathematics education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A 2023 comparison between parents' views and standardized test scores revealed a significant gap; most parents overestimated their children's academic aptitude. In mathematics, only 26% were proficient, even though 90% of the parents asked thought their children met grade standards. [ 22 ]

  9. Stereotype threat - Wikipedia

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    Steele and Aronson split students into three groups: stereotype-threat (in which the test was described as being "diagnostic of intellectual ability"), non-stereotype threat (in which the test was described as "a laboratory problem-solving task that was nondiagnostic of ability"), and a third condition (in which the test was again described as ...