Put simply, Suzie may learn more than Johnny in 3rd grade not because Suzie had the better teacher that year but because she may have had a better education the previous year, even though this was not reflected in
her 2nd grade test score.
Not exact matches
By the
2nd or 3rd
grade, there is no difference between the
test scores of children who attended most preschool programs, including Head Start, and those who did not.
In an attempt to solve this problem, the Jacobsen team cobbled together data from the federal longitudinal «Prospects» study's Cohort 1 to measure children's
test scores in 1st and
2nd grades (1992 - 93); Prospects Cohort 3 for
scores in 3rd and 5th
grades (1991 - 93); Prospects Cohort 7 for 7th and 9th
grades (1991 - 93); and the National Education Longitudinal Study to measure 10th - and 12th -
grade scores (1990 - 92).
The push toward standardized
test scores like the PARCC, Stanford and other knowledge - based assessments has encouraged this laser focus, but it means that in many kindergarten, 1st
grade and
2nd grade classrooms science and social sciences get short shrift.
Based on Chetty and his colleagues» results for how
2nd and 3rd
grade test scores affect adult earnings, this
test score gain for males would be expected to increase average annual adult earnings at ages 25 to 27 by a little over $ 900 or 5 %.
Alyssa
scored higher than a 5th grader on her Star math
test and obtained 100 % on
2nd grade common assessment
test.