by admin | Academics, Research
Rodger WilliamsAugust 12, 2020 Editor’s note: See Percentiles for help interpreting the graph. The graph compares the public school academic achievement curve on the left with the homeschool achievement curve on the...
by Rodger Williams | Homeschooling, Issues
How do homeschools compare with public schools on how well they prevent academic failures, as measured by standardized test scores? The average U.S. homeschool standardized test score is in the range of 65 to 80 percentiles, according to the best available estimate....
by Rodger Williams | Homeschooling, Issues
Question: Is the observed high academic achievement of homeschoolers due to the method of education or just due to homeschooler demographics? Homeschool critics prominently voice — without supporting evidence — conjectures such as these from Lubienski,...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research
Brian Ray September 3, 2018 Excerpt: During the past five years or so, negative critics of homeschooling and of homeschool advocacy have claimed that research on homeschooling tells us almost nothing (e.g., about academic achievement or test scores). More recently,...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research
Rodger Williams April 24, 2018 Homeschool academic achievement — as measured by standardized tests — is normally distributed, just like public school academic achievement. Not only is the homeschool curve the same shape as the public school curve, it also...
