Updated on March 23, 2021 by Rachel Lazerus
Last week, Scott Woodruff of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) used homeschool testing data from Arkansas to argue that homeschool programs in that state are superior to those offered by public schools. We have been analysing… Read More
Updated on June 29, 2022 by Rachel Coleman
One of the homeschool lobby’s most touted claims is that homeschooled students score higher than public school students on the SAT. This claim, highlighted in a June 2016 news release by the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI),… Read More
Updated on March 23, 2021 by Rachel Coleman
The question of how homeschooled students fare academically has been raised countless times over the past three-and-a-half decades. Numerous volunteer-based studies have compared homeschooled students’ percentile scores on standardized tests with the national average and other studies have… Read More
Updated on March 22, 2021 by Rachel Coleman
Homeschool advocates often champion studies they claim show that homeschooled students score thirty percentile points above average as proof of the superiority of homeschooling. Unfortunately, these studies have some serious flaws—they do not use random samples and they… Read More
Tag: original research
Arkansas Data Contradicts HSLDA’s Claims
Updated on March 23, 2021 by Rachel Lazerus
Last week, Scott Woodruff of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) used homeschool testing data from Arkansas to argue that homeschool programs in that state are superior to those offered by public schools. We have been analysing… Read More
Category: Blog, Research Tags: academics, Arkansas, original research, standardized tests
Should We Be Concerned about Low Homeschool SAT-Taking?
Updated on June 29, 2022 by Rachel Coleman
One of the homeschool lobby’s most touted claims is that homeschooled students score higher than public school students on the SAT. This claim, highlighted in a June 2016 news release by the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI),… Read More
Category: Blog, Research Tags: college, community college, math, original research, SAT
The Homeschool Math Gap: The Data
Updated on March 23, 2021 by Rachel Coleman
The question of how homeschooled students fare academically has been raised countless times over the past three-and-a-half decades. Numerous volunteer-based studies have compared homeschooled students’ percentile scores on standardized tests with the national average and other studies have… Read More
Category: Blog, Research Tags: academics, math, original research
The Alaska Data and Homeschool Academics
Updated on March 22, 2021 by Rachel Coleman
Homeschool advocates often champion studies they claim show that homeschooled students score thirty percentile points above average as proof of the superiority of homeschooling. Unfortunately, these studies have some serious flaws—they do not use random samples and they… Read More
Category: Blog, Research Tags: academics, Alaska, original research, Rachel Coleman