US Education Practice Quiz

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)–sponsored Independent Task Force report on U.S. Education Reform and National Security believes the United States has FAILED to educate its students properly, threatening the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role.

Which of the following statements is NOT a goal of the STEM Agenda?

Concerning the TIMSS and PIRLS tests, rank the scores of the United States in the subjects of Reading, Math, and Science in order of best subject score to worst subject score.

On the TIMSS math test taken by 4th Graders, the United States fell in the middle-tier, while the leading scores came from five Asian nations. Which nation had the top score in mathematics?

The gap between the U.S. and Finland on PISA (a very different test than the TIMSS) is statistically significant in mathematics literacy, Finland being in the top-tier. However, the results of the 2011 TIMSS mathematics test scores show....

Concerning the United States TIMSS 8th Grade math scores of 2011, which of the nine participating states received the highest score?

The nations of Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Belgium (Flemish), and the Czech Republic scored at the top of the 1995 TIMSS rankings in eighth-grade math. In 2008, they were referenced as exemplars in the Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, with the idea that other countries should be more like them. These nations are commonly known as.....?

Only four countries scored statistically significantly higher than the United States on the reading test. Which nation had the highest reading score?

More than what percent of students fail to graduate from high school in four years?

U.S. students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers because the United States invests less in K-12 public education than many other developed countries.