Sentences with phrase «fifth grade test scores»

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Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

About 38,000 teachers, or 20 percent, had one - fifth of their evaluations based on their students» scores in the fourth - through eighth - grade English and math tests.

The test scores of students are taken from fifth - and sixth - grade results in the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), in math and English language arts.

North Carolina's investment in early child care and education programs resulted in higher test scores, less grade retention and fewer special education placements through fifth grade, research from the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy finds.

Figure 1 shows scatterplots of averaged reading and math test scores in third grade and fifth grade for students in the top quartile of the socioeconomic status distribution versus those in the bottom quartile of the socioeconomic status distribution in the same school.

[13] Our outcome of interest is the third or fifth - grade score on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT)[14] taken in the relevant year between 1999 and 2012, which we standardize statewide at the grade and year level to have a mean of zero and standard deviation of one.

For the 20 schools with near - zero kindergarten readiness gaps, test score gaps in grades three and five range from less than two - fifths of a standard deviation to more than a full standard deviation.

As can be seen in Figure 2, the schools that have larger kindergarten readiness gaps also have larger test score gaps in third and fifth grades: as the kindergarten readiness gap increases by 10 percentage points, the test score gaps increase by around 0.06 of a standard deviation.

We observe that there is virtually no relationship between the relative affluence of the overall student body of the school and the SES test score gap in that school: schools serving primarily high - SES students and those serving primarily low - SES students have the same average SES test score gaps (around 0.8 standard deviations) in both third and fifth grades.

In Figure 3, we relate the average SES level of the school to the test score gap in third or fifth grade between students in the top and bottom SES quartile.

We analyze records for children born in Florida between 1994 and 2001 and observed in the test score records in both third and fifth grades — a total of 872,893 children.

How well do these SES gaps in kindergarten readiness predict SES gaps in test scores in third or fifth grades?

A student who is using a voucher and is attending fifth grade, has family income near the poverty line, a particular race or ethnicity, and has low math and reading test scores, for example, would be matched to one or more students who are also attending fifth grade, have incomes near the poverty line, are of that race or ethnicity, and have low reading and math scores, but do not use vouchers.

Supposedly if a student takes a test in the fifth grade with an effective teacher the method is able to predict the score of the student in the sixth grade with an effective teacher.

Jessica Allen, who began teaching at Quitman last fall after moving from Virginia, has distinguished herself with long hours, fun activities and a determination to raise her fifth - grade students» test scores.

«ESSA will directly impact our students» outcomes and this policy gives us the opportunity to think critically about what it means to truly have a high - quality education, where we look beyond test scores to data on student growth, wellness, attendance, engagement and access to enrichment activities,» said Clare Foley, a fifth - grade teacher at Richard R. Green Central Park School in Minneapolis.

Students entering the fifth grade here are often several years behind in both subjects, but last year, 100 percent of seventh graders scored at a level of proficient or advanced on state standardized math tests.

A Johns Hopkins University study found that low - income and wealthy students» reading test scores over summer breaks from first to fifth grade rose by.26 and 52.49 points, respectively.

Six years earlier, in 1999, the first group of students to enter KIPP Academy middle school, which Levin founded and ran in the South Bronx, triumphed on the eighth - grade citywide achievement test, graduating with the highest scores in the Bronx and the fifth - highest in all of New York City.

• In Dane County, the biggest jump in test score averages was in the Marshall (in eighth - grade science, eighth - grade math, and fifth - grade reading), Wisconsin Heights (10th - grade science, 10th - grade social studies), and Verona (eighth - grade language arts) districts.

At a 500 - student elementary school with declining test scores in mathematics, a large percentage of those identified as English Language Learners (ELL) were not meeting standards in math at the fifth grade level.

Numbers Matter, an instructional plan developed by Barbara Burke, was first implemented in a school with 100 % free lunch, an on - time graduation rate under 70 %, 95 % of freshman students arriving behind grade level, and state test scores in the bottom half of the fifth quintile.

This study compared standardized test scores in reading and math for second - and fifth - grade students from two similar technology - rich elementary schools in Miami Dade County, Florida.

For decades, states and districts deployed tests that were «normed» such that the average score of, say, fifth graders taking them was deemed to be «fifth - grade - level» work.

California's Central Valley Networked Improvement Communities seek to improve fifth - grade mathematics and triple students» math proficiency on standardized test scores in just four years.

Although there are a number of areas that appear to be sources of reading difficulty, Valencia and Buly (2004) found that a substantial number of fifth grade students who scored below the proficient standard on a fourth grade state reading test exhibited difficulties in what the Common Core State Standards have identified as a foundational reading skill — reading fluency.

Yet Rafe Esquith's diverse fifth - grade students overcome language barriers and nonexistent funds to consistently score in the top five to 10 percent of the country in standardized tests and most go on to attend our most prestigious colleges and universities.

A 2009 study of the Round Rock Independent School District in Texas found that the math and reading test scores of third and fifth grade ELLs increased following the implementation of blended learning and the use of interactive whiteboards.

In general, the models use a student's score on, say, a fourth - grade math test to predict how she or he would perform on the fifth - grade test.

In order to move up to fifth and ninth grade, students must score basic in at least English or math, with a score of «approaching basic» allowable for the other test.

Ratliff, a fifth - grade teacher at an inner - city L.A. Unified school that has steadily raised its standardized test scores, has the background, smarts and independence of mind to become a true leader in the district.

Despite years of state budget cuts and rising class sizes that now average 30 or more, 83 percent of Laurel Street K - fifth grade students scored at the proficient or higher level on a recent state language - arts exam, and 91 percent scored that high on the state math test.

The newspaper analyzed seven years of student test scores in English and math to determine how much students» performance improved under about 6,000 third - through fifth - grade teachers.

Monarch serves 355 predominantly low - income Latino children in kindergarten through fifth grade, many of whom are still learning English - a demographic often linked to bottom - of - the - barrel test scores.

English tests have shown less significant decreases, and on fifth - and sixth - grade English tests, the cutoff score was in fact slightly higher this year than in 2006.

In addition to numerical scores from a standardized test she administers herself at the beginning of the school year, there's a note to a student telling him he's between a fifth - and sixth - grade reading level: «Please push yourself very hard to be ready for seventh grade.»

Last spring, third - and fifth - grade reading ranked first in the state, while eighth - and 10th - grade reading scored second in the Delaware Student Testing Program.