NZ 15 year-olds ranked 3rd in world for reading and maths
Apr 29th 2003, 3:48 am
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NZ 15 year-olds ranked 3rd in world for reading and maths
Thanks for your thread muppetking. We have a 4 year-old daughter so find this interesting.
However, I've done my homework :lecture: and depending on what age-group you select you can come up with all sorts of different results.
For example this link below is for 15 year-olds
"Our teenage students are world beaters"
By GREGG WYCHERLEY
New Zealand teenagers are among the world's best at reading, maths and science, the first results of a major international survey show.
New Zealand students ranked third in both literacy and maths and sixth in science - well above the OECD average in all three subjects.
The survey of 265,000 students in 31 countries - the first major study of its kind - was carried out last year by the Programme for International Student Assessment, run by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. It was the first of a continuous three-yearly series designed to assess the ability of 15-year-olds intheir final year of compulsory schooling to apply their knowledge and skills in reading, maths andscience to everyday problems."
Link for this is:
http://www.pisa.oecd.org/News/PISA20...NewZealand.pdf
As an aside, below is the actual link to your original post in the other thread.
In the sentence " The recently released, state-of-the-art, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) of 9- and 10-year-olds" you yourself added the words "state-of-the-art" into your quote! They do not appear in the URL at all.
Surely a HUGE no-no to someone who is a teacher!
http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2003/...10_04_03c.html
Cheers
Amy
However, I've done my homework :lecture: and depending on what age-group you select you can come up with all sorts of different results.
For example this link below is for 15 year-olds
"Our teenage students are world beaters"
By GREGG WYCHERLEY
New Zealand teenagers are among the world's best at reading, maths and science, the first results of a major international survey show.
New Zealand students ranked third in both literacy and maths and sixth in science - well above the OECD average in all three subjects.
The survey of 265,000 students in 31 countries - the first major study of its kind - was carried out last year by the Programme for International Student Assessment, run by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. It was the first of a continuous three-yearly series designed to assess the ability of 15-year-olds intheir final year of compulsory schooling to apply their knowledge and skills in reading, maths andscience to everyday problems."
Link for this is:
http://www.pisa.oecd.org/News/PISA20...NewZealand.pdf
As an aside, below is the actual link to your original post in the other thread.
In the sentence " The recently released, state-of-the-art, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) of 9- and 10-year-olds" you yourself added the words "state-of-the-art" into your quote! They do not appear in the URL at all.
Surely a HUGE no-no to someone who is a teacher!
http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2003/...10_04_03c.html
Cheers
Amy
Apr 29th 2003, 6:10 am
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Re: NZ 15 year-olds ranked 3rd in world for reading and maths
Originally posted by amy&matt
Thanks for your thread muppetking. We have a 4 year-old daughter so find this interesting.
However, I've done my homework :lecture: and depending on what age-group you select you can come up with all sorts of different results.
For example this link below is for 15 year-olds
"Our teenage students are world beaters"
By GREGG WYCHERLEY
New Zealand teenagers are among the world's best at reading, maths and science, the first results of a major international survey show.
New Zealand students ranked third in both literacy and maths and sixth in science - well above the OECD average in all three subjects.
The survey of 265,000 students in 31 countries - the first major study of its kind - was carried out last year by the Programme for International Student Assessment, run by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. It was the first of a continuous three-yearly series designed to assess the ability of 15-year-olds intheir final year of compulsory schooling to apply their knowledge and skills in reading, maths andscience to everyday problems."
Link for this is:
http://www.pisa.oecd.org/News/PISA20...NewZealand.pdf
As an aside, below is the actual link to your original post in the other thread.
In the sentence " The recently released, state-of-the-art, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) of 9- and 10-year-olds" you yourself added the words "state-of-the-art" into your quote! They do not appear in the URL at all.
Surely a HUGE no-no to someone who is a teacher!
http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2003/...10_04_03c.html
Cheers
Amy
Thanks for your thread muppetking. We have a 4 year-old daughter so find this interesting.
However, I've done my homework :lecture: and depending on what age-group you select you can come up with all sorts of different results.
For example this link below is for 15 year-olds
"Our teenage students are world beaters"
By GREGG WYCHERLEY
New Zealand teenagers are among the world's best at reading, maths and science, the first results of a major international survey show.
New Zealand students ranked third in both literacy and maths and sixth in science - well above the OECD average in all three subjects.
The survey of 265,000 students in 31 countries - the first major study of its kind - was carried out last year by the Programme for International Student Assessment, run by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. It was the first of a continuous three-yearly series designed to assess the ability of 15-year-olds intheir final year of compulsory schooling to apply their knowledge and skills in reading, maths andscience to everyday problems."
Link for this is:
http://www.pisa.oecd.org/News/PISA20...NewZealand.pdf
As an aside, below is the actual link to your original post in the other thread.
In the sentence " The recently released, state-of-the-art, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) of 9- and 10-year-olds" you yourself added the words "state-of-the-art" into your quote! They do not appear in the URL at all.
Surely a HUGE no-no to someone who is a teacher!
http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2003/...10_04_03c.html
Cheers
Amy
http:// http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydispl...toryID=3006427 Was this what you had in mind?
Last edited by muppetking; Apr 29th 2003 at 6:34 am.
Apr 29th 2003, 6:54 am
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A quote from your link:
"One of these, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), gave New Zealand children very high marks in reading and scientific literacy and placed them third overall in the OECD behind Korea and Japan"
3rd overall. Sounds good to me.
Yes it is a concern that there is a gap between NZ's highest performing students and the lowest-performing. Buit that is because of the poorer Maoris/Polynesians who have English as their second language - see below:
Another quote from your link:
"The Ministry of Education's Frances Kelly says while the ministry accepts there is a gap that must be addressed, she is less certain that the gap is widening.
"We've done a lot of work around looking at the gap, and Maori, Pacific Island children, and children for whom English or Maori is not spoken at home are all overrepresented in that group."
"She adds that Korea, which is often shown to have the most effective education system, cannot be compared to New Zealand, because it has hardly any second-language students."
"One of these, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), gave New Zealand children very high marks in reading and scientific literacy and placed them third overall in the OECD behind Korea and Japan"
3rd overall. Sounds good to me.
Yes it is a concern that there is a gap between NZ's highest performing students and the lowest-performing. Buit that is because of the poorer Maoris/Polynesians who have English as their second language - see below:
Another quote from your link:
"The Ministry of Education's Frances Kelly says while the ministry accepts there is a gap that must be addressed, she is less certain that the gap is widening.
"We've done a lot of work around looking at the gap, and Maori, Pacific Island children, and children for whom English or Maori is not spoken at home are all overrepresented in that group."
"She adds that Korea, which is often shown to have the most effective education system, cannot be compared to New Zealand, because it has hardly any second-language students."
Apr 29th 2003, 8:54 am
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Thanks for your post Amy
Has Melbourne's fascination with AFL rubbed off on you yet? We watched a game when down-under 2 years ago. Let's just say one game was more than enough.
Regards
Megsie
Has Melbourne's fascination with AFL rubbed off on you yet? We watched a game when down-under 2 years ago. Let's just say one game was more than enough.
Regards
Megsie
Apr 29th 2003, 11:11 am
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Originally posted by megsie
Thanks for your post Amy
Has Melbourne's fascination with AFL rubbed off on you yet? We watched a game when down-under 2 years ago. Let's just say one game was more than enough.
Regards
Megsie
Thanks for your post Amy
Has Melbourne's fascination with AFL rubbed off on you yet? We watched a game when down-under 2 years ago. Let's just say one game was more than enough.
Regards
Megsie
It has grown on us and I quite like the tight shorts they all wear
Cheers
Amy
