Sentences with phrase «8th grade math proficiency»

The state fared better in education, improving in all of the indicators (pre-school attendance, 4th grade reading proficiency, 8th grade math proficiency, and high school graduation rates).

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To see whether states are setting proficiency bars in such a way that they are «lowballing expectations» and have «lowered the bar» for students in 4th - and 8th - grade reading and math, Education Next has used information from the recently released 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to evaluate empirically the proficiency standards each state has established.

Among its 8th - grade students, only 12 percent reached proficiency in reading and 7 percent in math.

Figure 1 shows a scatterplot of proficiency rates in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math as an example.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the «Nation's Report Card,» «proficiency» rates last year were below 50 percent for every racial and ethnic group, in both reading and math, in both 4th and 8th grade.

A school with low proficiency rates for English language learners needs a different kind of support and strategy than a school with low growth rates in 7th and 8th grade math for all students.

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.

State and NAEP proficiency rates are the average of 8th grade proficiency rates in math and reading.

New York's expectations are even higher than NAEP's: Proficiency rates on its 4th grade reading and 8th grade math tests are 3 percentage points to 10 percentage points lower than those rates on the NAEP, Achieve reports.

These gulfs in racial performance exist throughout all age groups, including 8th - grade math proficiency, college math course readiness and high school graduation rates.

For example, 84 % of the reported improvement in 4th grade math proficiency between 2008 and 2009 and 69 % of the improvement in 8th grade reading proficiency could be attributed to the exclusion of these students.

Click here to view a comparison of state NAEP averages created by the U. S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences; you can also see charts here comparing each states» proficiency rates to those of NAEP for 4th and 8th grade reading along with charts for math and science.

Its 8th - grade proficiency rates in 2014 were significantly lower than the two schools that don't backfill: 57 % in reading and 70 % in math.

While the 8th grade math gap is the most egregious, the DC CAS proficiency rate is well below the NAEP rate in other areas as well.

The state board will likely select either middle school dropout rates, for which data can be problematic, or a blend of reading proficiency in 3rd grade and 8th grade math — two early indicators that point to whether students are on track for college.

In 8th grade math, the gap between proficiency rates on state tests and the NAEP narrowed from 32 percentage points in 2011 to 15 in 2014.