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.
Not exact matches
The 2011
8th -
grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that only 18 percent of Hispanic students and 14 percent of black students
read at or above
proficiency levels.
For example, the report tells us that 70 percent of
8th -
grade students at K12 - operated schools met
proficiency standards in
reading, as compared to 77 percent in all public schools in the same states.
In no country in the world does a majority of the students reach the NAEP
proficiency bar set in
8th -
grade reading.
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.
NEPC notes, for example, that 70 percent of
8th -
grade students at K12 schools met
proficiency standards in
reading, as compared to 77 percent in all public schools in the same states in which K12 operates.
Illinois set its
proficiency bar for
8th -
grade reading at a level that is 1.01 standard deviations below the national average.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).