Yet when they left my class, 71 percent of them had scored basic or
above on the algebra CST, and 37 percent of them had scored at the proficient level.
Not exact matches
In addition, some students took double - dose
algebra, even though they scored
above the cutoff
on the exam.
Phone call # 4: The mother of a highly gifted girl who does
algebra in her head «for fun» and consistently scores four years
above grade level
on tests of mathematics achievement called to ask me how she could convince the classroom teacher and the gifted coordinator that her young daughter did not need to keep adding and subtracting one - and two - digit numbers with the rest of the third grade class.
For low - income students in California, the average performance
on the
algebra CST was 42 percent basic or
above, and only 17 percent met the proficient level.
In April 2009, my CREATE students took the CST statewide
algebra exam, and 71 percent of them scored at or
above basic
on the test, including 37 percent who scored proficient.
In the U.S., these gaps are particularly wide in
Algebra I and English I. Nationally, 33 percent of eighth - grade students performed at or
above the Proficient level
on 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics assessments; 34 percent performed at or
above the same level
on 2015 NAEP reading assessments.
In fact, Wes's
algebra students, including those without disabilities, scored
above the district average
on targeted subsections of the state test that year.