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Sunday, October 23, 2016

New Standardized Tests Show 42 Percent of Students are Proficient


About 42 percent of students are proficient in English and mathematics according to data from standardized tests new State administered to students statewide.

About 42 percent of school students performed at proficient or better in school, according to data from examination of Wisconsin Forward published on Tuesday.

This comes after the latest ACT results released Monday by the Department of Education showed young public schools improved their overall score between 20 and 20.1 slightly.

Examination of the Wisconsin Forward is the latest performance test statewide. About 100 educators gathered in Madison Wisconsin this summer to create categories advanced classification, basic skills, or below basic.

Four out of 10 students passed the new test that is designed to provide information about what students know the basis of school, such as social studies, science, mathematics and English areas.

Approximately 383,000 students took the exam in the spring of 2016. More than 13,000 of these students are students of private schools in Milwaukee, Racine and good programs statewide.

Forward revision replaces the individual examination administered Badger, which was created to modernize the exam Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts obsolete. Since the examination Badger had a short period of testing, the test results of the front will not be placed in comparison.

The results of the review of the series before the work of students in third through eighth grade in English language arts and mathematics. fourth- and eighth-graders are tested in science and social studies.

According to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, about 41 percent of young people were at least proficient in English this year, almost 46 percent since the 2014-2015 school year.

Since the review of the preliminary examination is the third implemented in the last three years, assessments of long-term performance will not be possible until the review is in place for several years.

Wisconsin also runs a test program US State College, more commonly known as ACT, high school. In the third year of public high schools have been shown to perform the same mathematical level the scores of 2015 and slightly worse in English in 2016, from a score of 19.3 in 2015 to 18.6 this year.

"The use of the ACT as an assessment of the state provides an opportunity for our young students to demonstrate their knowledge of college loans expectations," said State Superintendent Tony Evers. "The increase in participation is positive, and in some cases, opens the doors for continuing education students and their parents have not been taken into account."

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