 | Hi Meg,
See if this works, http://wvde.state.wv.us/igos/stan_table.html that is the math objectives for the Stanford 9 test. But what your son is learning is a lot more than they taught in the kindergarten here, it was only half a day kindergarten and pretty much only numbers 1-10 were taught, shapes, simple things like that. Things that she was not taught but needed to know to get into the private school that she now goes to, was number recognition and writing the numbers 1-100, ordinal placement, values and counting money, adding single digit numbers, fractions, as in 1/3 of something or splitting a shape into 1/2, etc. pretty much everything that you listed in your regular curriculum. But it was not taught at the public schools where I live. So my daughter was tutored for a month and caught on very fast. You can go to greatschools.com and they list the test scores state by state for all public schools I think. I thought the Stanford 9 was a national test, it seems it's not in every state. You can do a search on any of the search engines by just putting in Stanford 9 and information comes up. The way the percentages work on the test is that a score of 50% means average. The public school my daughter was going to was in the 40% range, a little below average. The test scores of the private school are in the 80% range. The AMES test I was talking about turns out to be AIMS test, it's an Arizona test only I believe, but the private school doesn't bother with it. The public schools take both the AIMS and the Stanford 9, also called the Stanford Achievement Test. The test averages of the AIMS is usually quite a bit higher than the Stanford 9 scores. I can only imagine it is because they are easier. Not all public schools here have low test scores though, but most do, they do range from school to school. Hope this helps. |
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