Re: Why Hmong Students score low on standard tests?

On Mar 19, 1:31 pm, Tzianeng Vang <txiabn...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Greeting esteemed SCHlers,

Based on my not-so-scholarly observation I believe that Hmong students
score low on tests given at any institution may have been:

1. The design of the test: it was design by well educated English
speakers who may or may not have as much as needed idea/ideal with low
income and less proficient students; take for example, a conversation
awhile back debated about the usage of cheese and milk to test Hmong
(Asia) kids about food taste, texture and identification; most Hmong
kids fail terribly. Thus the proposal was to design the test using
something more familiar to them such as rice.
2. What the test intended for: it may have been designed for English
speaking students who have similar backgrounds as the designer who
lives in affluent community, family, parents and who has been exposed
to such languages all of their lives;
3. What the test measured: given that one's community, family
educational background and the home environment has some strong impact
in shaping on how one learn and progress, any given test should also
look at how the individual have progress since being exposed to the
learning process rather then just the final score revealed on the
test.

These are just the top three I thought of...feel free sharing yours
thoughts on why Hmong students achieved such low scores on tests...

Ua tsaug!

Kuv tsis paub txog hmoob cov charpter school nos yog hmoob ua cov
teachers tas nrhos los yog lwm haiv neeg thiab. Tej zaum lawm hos siv
lus hmoob ntau dhau los yog lawm qhia tsis cuag luag tus standard.
Lawv yuav tau los teb cov lus tias yog vim lis cas peb menyuam hmoob
thiab average yog 21 xwb. We need to do some thing, and we know that
hmoob students are much better than that. Just need a few srews to
adjust that!!!!
.

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