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 July 5, 2014 Home educated students have long been recognized by research as scoring substantially higher than expected, on average, on nationally normed achievement tests. We will take a deeper look at the mechanics of how that works out in practice....
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Regulation, Research
Brian Ray February 02, 2010 Excerpt: Degree of State Regulation Students’ scores were examined according to the degree of state regulation (definitions below) in their states at one point in time, the Spring of 2008, close to when most of the data were...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research
Rodger Williams August 20, 2018 “The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.) A 2015 study...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Regulation, Research
Rodger Williams February 16, 2015 Today there are calls from various quarters to either increase regulations on homeschoolers or to keep existing levels of regulation in place. The usual reason given is to protect low-achieving homeschooled students. But regulation...
