Not exact matches
Two of its Brooklyn schools have posted
math scores that were the best in the state, Excellence Boys Charter School (6th
grade) and Kings Collegiate Charter School (
7th grade); ELA
test scores of 8th graders at True North Rochester Preparatory Charter School in Rochester placed that school at number 6 out of 1,450 schools
tested.
This was after controlling for students» mean achievement in
7th -
grade math the previous year, which establishes that the correlation is not simply the result of diluting the
test - taking pool with more students.
This is a
7th -
grade math sample item from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), one of the two multi-state consortia developing Common Core
tests.
Think of the
7th grade math teachers with modest student
test scores whose extra work ensures that their students excel in algebra two years later.
The first results ready for release last week were for students who finished the 3rd and 5th
grade math and
7th grade English language arts
tests around April 1, according to the PowerPoint presentation.
Millington Middle School teacher Kay Obenchain walks through her
7th grade enriched
math class to check on students as they review for
testing.
To connect different
tests and measure student growth, designers of value - added models commonly assume that the curriculum in higher
grades is nothing more than a harder version of that in the previous
grade; in other words, 8th
grade math is the same as
7th grade math, just more difficult.
Consider the content of an average standardized
test for
7th grade math and then check out the senior thesis of a Harvard
math major.