Homeschool Achievement Outperforms National Average
By Sun Kyu Bae |
Published August 14, 2009 |
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Read all about a 2009 study confirming that homeschool achievement outperforms the national average!
Hi everyone.
Perhaps a more appropriate title for this article would be "Homeschool Achievement Outperforms National Average YET AGAIN", but I'll let you make that decision after reading this article.
Anyway, the summary of a new study, called "Progress Report 2009: Homeschool Academic Achievement and Demographics", came out stating that homeschool students scored 36 percentage points higher on standardized achievement tests compared to their public school peers. The actual study isn't due to be published until November 2009, but the summary provides some good evidence that, overall, homeschooling works.
Background
Now, this study wasn't conducted by just anyone, it was done by the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI). Founded in 1990, NHERI, in their own words, "conducts and collects research about homeschooling (home-based education, home schooling)…The institute has hundreds of research works documented and catalogued on home schooling, many of which were done by NHERI. Simply put, NHERI specializes in homeschool research."
Here are some more details regarding this study:
11,739 homeschool students from all 50 states participated in the tests,
Tests were conducted by 15 independent testing services,
There were 3 well-known tests taken to measure performance: a) California Achievement Test, b) Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, and c) Stanford Achievement Test, and
Tests were conducted during the 2007-2008 school year
One more thing about this test before I wow you with the dazzling results - the reason why this study was conducted in the first place was because as homeschooling grew among the U.S. education institution, many people and organizations have become aware of homeschooling and naturally, have been asking more questions about the validity of homeschooling in this day and age.
Actually, there was a similar study done by Dr. Lawrence Rudner, a professor at the University of Maryland, in which he found that as a result of testing over 20,000 homeschool students, homeschool achievement scores outperformed national averages by 30 percentage points. Of course, this study was conducted over a decade ago, leaving open the possibility that results would look dramatically different today.
The results of this new study not only confirm that homeschool achievement continues to eclipse public school scores, but also suggests that homeschoolers today outpace their peers by even a higher margin than those recorded over a decade ago.
OK - enough talk about background, let's get to the juicy stuff - the test results.
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