Sentences with phrase «8th grades in all subjects»

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Of the many subjects taught in the eight - year cycle of a class teacher, few are more challenging than the science main lessons of the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.

To measure gains in student achievement, we calculate the difference between 8th - grade performance in each subject and the performance level that would have been expected based on performance in both subjects in 4th grade.

NAEP provides statewide data on six subjects (4th - and 8th - grade exams in math, science, and reading).

Two completed teacher surveys are available for 21,324 of the 8th - grade students — a bit smaller than the full sample of NELS students because some teachers did not complete their questionnaires and some students did not have a class in one or both of the academic subjects randomly assigned to their school for which teacher surveys were administered.

Federal law also mandates the periodic administration of tests in selected subjects to a representative sample of students in 4th and 8th grade as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called «the nation's report card.»

But preliminary findings from the study also found that students» achievement in most subjects increased substantially between 8th grade and 10th grade.

For the analysis, released last week by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University in Bloomington, researchers analyzed data stretching back as far as 1996 from 4th and 8th grade reading and math tests administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress and from state assessments in those subjects.