Smarter Balanced test scores for all California student subgroups nudged upward this year, in tandem with average statewide gains in math and English language arts. (edsource.org)
It compared year - to - year changes in test scores and singled out grades within schools for which gains were 3 standard deviations or more from the average statewide gain on that test. (hechingerreport.org)
From 1998 to 2000, while elementary schools statewide gained 7.7 percentile points, the Blue Ribbons gained only 5.7 points. (educationnext.org)