Sentences with phrase «3rd grade reading scores»

A 42 % improvement in the 3rd grade reading scores over the past four years marked one of the top growth scores in Colorado Springs.

School district leaders trying to improve 3rd grade reading scores and high school graduation rates are increasingly implementing strategies that include early education.

That's why there is so much attention on 3rd grade reading scores in our community and across the nation because if children are not on track by the end of third grade, their chances for success decrease substantially.

Not exact matches

Ladner found that the reading and math test scores of 3rd graders were higher in schools that offered all - day kindergarten or pre-K, but by 5th grade the differences had disappeared.

Perform in top half of 4th and 8th grade NAEP scores among states by 2019; have 75 percent of 3rd graders proficient in reading by 2025; average ACT composite score of 21 by 2020; 95 percent graduation rate by 2024 - 25

To assess how well Florida performed relative to the rest of the nation, one can use the results for initial 3rd - grade students on the FCAT to rescale the state's 4th - grade scores on the NAEP reading exam.

The improvement in the median reading score for those students entering 3rd grade is smaller than the NAEP increase for 4th graders over the same time period.

As critics contend, the state's aggregate test - score improvements on the 4th - grade FCAT reading exam — and likely on the NAEP exam as well — are inflated by the change in the number of students who were retained in 3rd grade in accordance with the state's new test - based promotion policy.

I then use the improvements of the median reading test score for initial 3rd - grade students on the FCAT since 2001 in order to rescale the state's mean NAEP test score in the spring of the same year.

But in May 2002, the state legislature made one of its boldest moves, revising the School Code, the state's education law, to require 3rd - grade students to score at the Level - 2 benchmark or above on the reading portion of the FCAT in order to be promoted to 4th grade.

In 3rd grade reading, girls» scores rise by 0.038 points for every 10 percentage point change in the share of their class that is female.

On the 3rd grade reading test, the average female scored 1.1 points - about half a standard deviation - higher than the average male.

We measured value - added with the average change in combined reading and math scores for a school's students between the end of 3rd grade and the end of 4th grade; we measured cross-cohort changes with the change in 4th grade scores from one year to the next.

Students in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 9th grades could be held back if they failed to score at the district benchmark in math and reading on nationally normed tests - the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) or the Test of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP) for 9th graders.

From the beginning, the centerpiece of Chicago's high - stakes testing program for students was a set of minimum test - score standards on the reading and mathematics sections of the ITBS for students in the 3rd, 6th, and 8th grades.

All scores across the district in grades 3 — 7 increased — some by only 2 percent (3rd grade reading increased from 39 percent to 41 percent) but some as much as 8 percent (7th grade mathematics increased from 14 percent to 22 percent)(2011 CSAP Results, 2011).

In Salt Lake, 3rd grade reading proficiency scores rose 15.5 % from 2013 - 2014.

While Louisiana's proficiency goal is for all students to be Basic and above, in the voucher schools, only 35 % of 3rd graders and 29 % of 4th graders earned scores indicating they are grade level proficient in reading.

As with test scores, poverty, a lack of fluency in English and special education needs are the greatest predictors of test scores and those same factors correlate with the likelihood that a child may not be reading at grade level by the 3rd grade.