Hovv to Use, Not Abuse, Those Practice Exercises

1979 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 10-12
Author(s):  
William D. McKillip ◽  
Cherie Adler Aviv
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Boards ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
General Public ◽  
High School Graduation ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
The Press ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
School Graduation ◽  
Considerable Pressure

We are, as teachers, under considerable pressure, from society in general and from within our profession, to pay close attention to the development of computational skills. The sources of this pressure are clear to those who are involved: School boards are considering or have adopted tests for promotion from grade to grade or for high school graduation; articles on declining test scores appear regularly in the press; the “back-to-basics” movement is highly popular with the general public; checklists of computational skills are used to insure that no student slips through unskilled; and so on. In response to this, textbooks are becoming longer and they contain increasingly longer sets of exercises. It is the purpose of this note to suggest an approach to the use of sets of practice exercises that is more like the actual use of computation by adults and may be more effective in attaining accuracy and, ultimately, speed.

scholarly journals Constrained Curriculum in High Schools: The Changing Math Standards and Student Achievement, High School Graduation and College Continuation

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Daun-Barnett ◽  
Edward P. St. John
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
High School Graduation ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
College Attendance ◽  
Exit Exams ◽  
Public Policy Issue ◽  
School Graduation

Mathematics education is a critical public policy issue in the U.S. and the pressures facing students and schools are compounded by increasing expectations for college attendance after high school.  In this study, we examine whether policy efforts to constrain the high school curriculum in terms of course requirements and mandatory exit exams affects three educational outcomes – test scores on SAT math, high school completion, and college continuation rates.  We employ two complementary analytic methods – fixed effects and difference in differences (DID) – on panel data for all 50 states from 1990 to 2008. Our findings suggest that within states both policies may prevent some students from completing high school, particularly in the near term, but both policies appear to increase the proportion of students who continue on to college if they do graduate from high school. The DID analyses provide more support for math course requirement policies than mandatory exit exams, but the effects are modest. Both the DID and fixed effects analyses confirm the importance of school funding in the improvement of high school graduation rates and test scores.

High stakes testing and distributive justice

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis K. Schrag
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
High School Graduation ◽  
High Stakes Testing ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Graduation Tests ◽  
School Graduation

Evaluation of high stakes testing regimes must consider not simply mean test scores, but their distribution among students. Taking high school graduation tests and black and white student populations to illustrate the argument, I identify two criteria of success: a larger proportion of black high school graduates and a narrower gap between the two groups. I evaluate various possible distributions against these criteria. I then consider the question of which students merit our focused attention, those students who are furthest behind or those with the greatest likelihood of passing the test given extra help. A medical triage analogy suggests we should help the former, but I show here that the analogy is misplaced.

APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS IN ENROLLMENT AND STUDENT TRAINING AT VIETNAMESE UNIVERSITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-287
Author(s):  
The Vinh Tran ◽  
Tran Kim Thanh ◽  
Tran Manh Tuong ◽  
Vu Anh Linh Duy
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
High School Graduation ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Entrance Exam ◽  
Entrance Exams ◽  
School Graduation ◽  
And Training ◽  
Machine Learning Models

In Vietnam, since 2015, the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam has decided to abolish university entrance exams and advocates the use of high school graduation exam results of candidates for admission to go to universities. The 2015 and 2016 exam questions for the Math exam are the essay questions. From 2017 up to now, the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam has applied the form of multiple-choice exams for Mathematics in the high school graduation exam. There are many mixed opinions about the impact of this form of examination and admission on the quality of university students. In particular, the switch from the form of essay examination to multiple-choice exams led the entire Vietnam Mathematical Association at that time to send recommendations on continuing to maintain the form of essay examination for mathematics. The purposes of this article are analysis and evaluation the effects of relevant factors on the academic performance of advanced math students of university students, and offer solutions to optimize university entrance exam. The data set was provided by Training Management Department and Training Quality Control and Testing Laboratory of the University of Finance – Marketing. This dataset includes information about math high school graduation test scores, learning process scores (scores assessed by direct instructors), and advanced math course end test scores of 2834 students in courses from 2015 to 2019. Linear and non-linear regression machine learning models were used to solve the tasks given in this article. An analysis of the data was conducted to reveal the advantages and disadvantages of the change in university enrollment of the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training. Tools from the Python libraries have been supported and used effectively in the process of solving problems. Through building and surveying the model, there are suggestions and solutions to problems in enrollment and input quality assurance. Specifically, in the preparation of entrance exams, the entrance exam questions should not exceed 61-66 % of multiple choice questions.

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