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49 Every year there are complaints -- even ridicule -- from students, parents and media about the ONET tests irrational questions. Some have been known to provide more than one answer. (Bangkok Post file photo) For the past 15 years, the Ordinary National Education Test (O-Net) has been the target of criticism. Introduced to test the academic proficiency of students nationwide in 2005, it has been attacked for its failure to improve their knowledge and skills. In additi...

Tests axed for school entry due to Covid 12 published : 2 Jan 2021 at 10:00 ONET test in 2017. (Bangkok Post file photo) The Ordinary National Education Test (O-Net) scores will not be used as criteria for admitting students into Mathayom 1 (Grade 7) and Mathayom 4 (Grade 10) in the next academic year, according to the Ministry of Education. Permanent secretary for education Supat Champathong said the Covid-19 crisis was the main reason behi...

Canyon News UNITED STATES—Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began, it’s definitely been tough for both parents, students, and even teachers to proceed with the whole school year. With education being an essential part of kids and young adults’ development, it continues to be a struggle with academic educators how they can possibly move forward in an online set-up especially for Prep students who need more assistance & guidance especially in advanced topics. But not to worry! While educa...

Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan Prathom 6 and Mathayom 3 students will not have to sit the Ordinary National Education Test (O-Net) for the 2020 academic year, according to the Ministry of Education. The written letter regarding the cancellation of O-Net has been submitted to the National Institute of Educational Testing Service (Public Organisation), and was signed by Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan. In the past, O-net was administered annually to measure s...

Key test one step closer to cancellation 1 published : 15 Dec 2020 at 04:00 1 Permanent secretary for education Supat Champathong has ordered an impact study in the event the Ordinary National Educational Test (O-Net) were to be cancelled, amid talk of universities planning to replace it with their own tests. Mr Supat said yesterday that he had ordered the National Institute of Educational Testing Service (NIETS) to look into the ramifications of such a cancellation...

 Posted By Ruth King on December 10th, 2020 Reality is harsh. Let’s face it, our world is imperfect, often even deadly. Not only that, it’s always going to be imperfect. So let’s get to work on enjoying our brief lives as best we can amidst the imperfection, while striving for such incremental improvements to the world as are within our modest capabilities. If you think that way, you definitely are not “woke.” To be a woke progressive the ...

The Bias Fallacy Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, Autumn 2020 The United States is being torn apart by an idea: that racism defines America. The death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer in late May 2020 catapulted this claim into national prominence; riots and the desecration of national symbols followed. Now, activists and their media allies are marshaling a more sweeping set of facts to prove the dominance of white supremacy: the absence of a proportional represen...

Multiply this by an entire country and youn wind up with a deeply ignorant population. there has been a consistent decline in adult literacy in america over the past 25 years, despite the fact that more kids than ever are going to college. two separate studies by the national assessment of adult literacy found that most college graduates fall below proficiency in verbal and quantitative literacy. the majority could not compete simple cognitive tasks like comparing thee viewpoints a new newspaper...

Activities. multiply this by an entire country and you wind up with a deeply ignorant population. there has been a consistent decline in adult literacy in america over the past 25 years despite the fact that more kids than ever are going to college. two separate studies for the national adult literacy find that graduates fall below proficiency. the majority could not compete domestic complete simple cognitive tasks. 31% of graduates could read and understand a complex book. college graduates sho...

Back of the book segment tonight. resempers at the educational testing service in princeton, new jersey annualized data concentrating on reading math, and computers. in the 60 to 34 demographic. young americans did very poorly. in literacy, we were number 16 out of 22 countries. in numeracy, which is math we are tied with italy and spain for last. and the computer issues were tied again for last with ireland and poland in the slovac iian republic. this is not good. joining us to analyze ms. laur...