Sentences with phrase «3rd grade reading test»

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

He also has proposed introducing an A-F grading system for schools and instituting a 3rd grade reading test and regents - style high school graduation exam.

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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.

The 4th - grade math test asked 34 questions; the 3rd - grade language - arts test included three readings — a folk tale, a poem, and a nonfiction passage — and 20 questions.

That is, as Anderson recognizes, «a very lofty aspirational goal, considering that we have about a third of our kids reading at grade level by the 3rd grade, and that we graduate about 55 percent of our kids, and only 23 percent of those do so by passing high - stakes tests.

Students in Texas are tested in 3rd through 8th grades in math and reading.

Nearly two thirds of the public favor the federal government's requirement that all students be tested in math and reading each year in 3rd through 8th grade and at least once in high school, and only 24 % oppose the policy.

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 Florida, those students who completed 3rd grade in the spring of 2003 and since have had to meet a minimum threshold on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) reading examination in order to be promoted to the 4th grade, unless they receive a special waiver.

When people are asked whether the federal government should continue the requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from 3rd through 8th and at least once in high school, nearly four out of five respondents say they favor the policy (see Figure 2).

I allowed my students to use their book for every test, since we were reading it in 3rd grade.

We also asked respondents what they think about requiring 3rd - grade students to pass a state reading test before moving on to the 4th grade.

However, the sample size for this part of the study was too small to determine whether students who participated in Reading Recovery sustained their gains on state reading tests in 3rdReading Recovery sustained their gains on state reading tests in 3rdreading tests in 3rd grade.

What started as a subtle flaw in the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test of 3rd grade reading has widened into a full - scale debate with national implications: Is too much riding on one fallible assessment?

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.

The state already requires most 3rd graders to pass a reading test — normally the reading portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test — before they advance to 4th gradtest — normally the reading portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test — before they advance to 4th gradTest — before they advance to 4th grade...

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.

Under the new policy, students in the 3rd, 6th, and 8th grades were required to meet minimum standards in reading and mathematics on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) in order to step up to the next grade.

This book provides 3rd through 12th grade teachers with more than 50 teacher - tested tools and techniques for helping their students read independently and critically.

Achievement tests assume that basic reading and arithmetic skills will be in place by 3rd grade; gifted kids often enter kindergarten with these skills.

Students in 3rd through 8th grade must be tested once per year in reading or language arts as well as mathematics, and once more in high school.

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.

In third grade in the 2000s on a reading test 3rd graders were asked to find the word in the row that has the same vowel sounds as the first word.

Teachers can expect to give their students four standardized tests per year (two in math and two in reading) from 3rd to 8th grade and three times in science before they complete grade 12 of highschool.

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