California STAR Test Information
- Data
- Preliminary Results:
- Background and Comments in the Media
- STAR Augmentation Background
- Bill Evers Comments on the STAR Mathematics Tests on KCBS Radio
- Raise the Teaching, and the Expectations; Education: The bad test scores are proof that while frills come and go, hard work and study pay off., by Martha Schwartz, LA Times
- Adding it all up: New math tests will show us how far we must go to improve
- Tustin's back-to-basics push raises Stanford 9 test scores, by Elizabeth Chey, the Orange County Register, June 17, 1999
- Statewide Testing a Step: We need to know how students compare, by Robert L. Trigg, San Francisco Chronicle
- Sample 1999 Augmented STAR Mathematics Items
- Sample 1999 Augmented STAR Items in .pdf format
- Publisher's STAR Website
1999 Statewide Results
Mathematics Augmentation Scores
(15 Foundations + 35 Standards Based)
Grade
Level |
Mean # Correct
(of 50) |
|
| Grade 2 |
27.2 |
  |
| Grade 3 |
26.5 |
|
| Grade 4 |
23.4 |
|
| Grade 5 |
20.8 |
|
| Grade 6 |
22.1 |
|
| Grade 7 |
20.5 |
|
Algebra I
(in grade 8) |
26.5 |
|
Geometry
(in grade 9) |
27.9 |
|
Algebra II
(in grade 10) |
25.4 |
|
| Grade 11 |
17.2 |
|
Statewide Results for SAT9 Mathematics Scores
Grade
Level |
1998
Percentile
Rank |
1999
Percentile
Rank |
1998 to
1999
Change |
| 2 |
43 |
50 |
+7 |
| 3 |
42 |
49 |
+7 |
| 4 |
39 |
44 |
+5 |
| 5 |
41 |
45 |
+4 |
| 6 |
48 |
52 |
+4 |
| 7 |
45 |
47 |
+2 |
| 8 |
45 |
48 |
+3 |
| 9 |
50 |
51 |
+1 |
| 10 |
43 |
46 |
+3 |
| 11 |
46 |
48 |
+2 |
Statewide Results for SAT9 Reading Scores
Grade
Level |
1998
Percentile
Rank |
1999
Percentile
Rank |
1998 to
1999
Change |
| 2 |
39 |
43 |
+4 |
| 3 |
36 |
40 |
+4 |
| 4 |
40 |
42 |
+2 |
| 5 |
40 |
41 |
+1 |
| 6 |
43 |
45 |
+2 |
| 7 |
41 |
43 |
+2 |
| 8 |
44 |
46 |
+2 |
| 9 |
34 |
34 |
0 |
| 10 |
32 |
32 |
0 |
| 11 |
37 |
36 |
-1 |