Home Schooling Achievement
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Home Schooling Achievement 99 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 1 50 87 Achievement Test Subject Areas Average National Percentile Rank* Footnote: (Ray, 1997) Data collected for standardized academicachievement tests for the 1994-95 academic year. *For more detail about the non-equal-interval nature of a simple percentile scale which has distortion especially near the ends of the scale, see the complete study by Brian D. Ray, Strengths of Their Own-Home Schoolers Across America:Academic Achievement, FamilyCharacteristics, and Longitudinal Traits, 1997, Salem, OR: National HomeEducation Research Institute, www.nheri.org. 50 85 50 80 50 82 50 84 50 85 50 81 50 85 50 87 Total Reading Total Listening Total Language Total Math Science Social Studies Study Skills Basic Battery Complete Battery Why are so many parents choosing to home school? Because it works. Home Schooling Achievement Figure 1.0 How Do Home School Students Score? Home School K-12 National Average Scores Public School K-12 National Average Scores A 1997 study by Dr. Brian Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) found that home edu- cated students excelled on nationally-normed standardized achievement exams. On average, home schoolers outperformed their public school peers by 30 to 37 percentile points across all subjects (Figure 1.0). 99 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 1 Basic Battery Average National Percentile Rank* Footnotes: (Ray, 1997) *For more detail about the non-equal-interval nature of a simple percentile scale which hasdistortion especially near the ends of the scale, see Ray 1997. **Basic battery achievement test scores not available for public school students. ***Public school data are for 8 th grade writing scores and 13-year-olds math scores based on tables from the U.S.Department of Education, Office of Educational Research &Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics (1996,November). National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)trends in academic progress [trends report and appendices].Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education. Home school data are for grades K-12. Key for Figures 2.1-2.3: Parents Highest Education Level Attained Less than High School Education 99 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 1 Writing Average National Percentile Rank* Graduated High School Some Education after High School Graduated College Home School Student Scores Segmented by Fathers Education Level Home School Student Scores Segmented by Mothers Education Level Public School Student Scores Segmented by Parents Education Level*** Figure 2.1 Home School Achievement -Basic Battery Test Figure 2.2 Public SchoolAchievement Writing Test** Figure 2.3 Public SchoolAchievement Math Test** Does Parent Education Level Predict Student Achievement? 87 80 81 79 88 84 80 83 61 56 43 34 99 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 1 Mathematics Average National Percentile Rank* Public School Student Scores Segmented by Parents Education Level*** 54 40 28 63 99 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 1 82 82 4 th Grade Home Schoolers 8 th Grade Home Schoolers Composite Percentile Score* Footnote: (Rudner, 1999) *Composite Percentile Score refers to thepercentil
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