... hypotheses? In this article, the author is trying to answer basically one main question: Why are Chinese students constantly among the top scorers in cross-national studies of achievement and American students constantly below the national average? Dr. Yea-Ling gives an example early on in her article about how many different studies have shown American students are consistently performing poorly on tests of mathematics and science. She also gives an example of how in a recent national study of mathematics achievement, American students in the middle school grades were performing lower than the national average in problem solving, geometry, algebra, calculus, and other areas of mathematics....in contrast, Japanese students from the same grade level had significantly higher average scores. With this example and other similar studies, Dr. Yea-Ling Tsao found it extremely necessary to make an inquiry as to why the above studies are so. What is the rationale for this study? ...

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