Sentences with phrase «assessments in reading»

The Think Tank committee serves as a consulting / advisory body to the Connecticut Association for Reading Research and the Connecticut Reading Association on issues that impact on curriculum and instruction, and assessments in reading and language arts in the state of Connecticut.

High school seniors continued a short - term pattern of progress on national assessments in reading and math, although the reading scores fell short of high - points reached in 1992.

Therefore, we support retaining annual, statewide, comparable student assessments in reading and math in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school.

Uncommon's Camden Prep students showed progress on internal assessments in both reading and math.

Figure 9 provides the overall PISA performance for participating countries in the primary assessments in reading, math, and science.

As Superintendent, I will replace the current testing system with common sense assessments in reading, writing, and math that will focus education on in - depth learning instead of teaching to a test.

At eight Parent Benchmark Nights at Lincoln Elementary School in Wichita, Kan., parents and children received portfolios focused on the different assessments in reading, math and writing, and scores in all three areas rose that year.

The WY - TOPP interim assessments in reading and mathematics are administered in fall for grades 3 - 10, in winter for grades 1 - 10.

Using curriculum based measurement to predict performance on state assessments in reading.

The federal education law, whose most recent reauthorization is also known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, requires schools and school divisions to meet annual objectives for increasing student achievement on statewide assessments in reading / language arts and mathematics.

But typically those efforts are limited to grades three through eight, when state assessments in reading and math are conducted for federal accountability purposes.

The growth score shown here is the school's average gain based on TCAP assessments in Reading, Math, and Science.

Beginning in 2013, RSN Directors will, in collaboration with CESA based discretionary grant staff, engage in identifying and supporting districts most in need of improvement in Indicator 3c (Statewide Assessments in Reading).

As FastBridge Learning continues to grow its suite of available assessments in reading and math, we want to make it as easy as possible to identify which assessments are appropriate for your students.

Most statewide assessments in reading and writing are on - demand assessments.

One of the few studies of on - demand assessment to report specifically by subject area is based on data from the New Standards Project, a multistate effort designed to involve educators in the creation of state and district performance - based assessments in reading, writing, and mathematics (Resnick, Resnick, & DeStefano, 1993).

When the NAEP benchmark for proficiency is applied to the results of these international assessments in reading (Grade 4) and math and science (Grade 8), it's the rare nation — even among advanced economies — in which 50 percent or more of students would reach this target.

The bill maintains the requirement for a state to administer student assessments in reading, mathematics, and science, according to an established testing schedule.

ESSA in § 1111 (c)(4)(B)(i)(I) requires states to use an indicator of academic achievement that «measures proficiency on the statewide assessments in reading / language arts and mathematics.»

The Act (Section 1111 (c)(4)(B)(i)(I)-RRB- requires states to use an indicator of academic achievement that «measures proficiency on the statewide assessments in reading / language arts and mathematics.»

District performance - based assessments in reading, writing, spelling, and math are given, on average, three times each year, and numerous staff development hours are spent reviewing results and discussing ways in which the findings can be used to inform and change classroom instruction to meet the needs of individual students.

The council's Beating the Odds VI report, a city - by - city analysis of student performance, recently revealed that urban students» scores on state assessments in reading and math as well as on the more rigorous federal test — the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- are rising, with urban students making the most gains in mathematics.

We had made a positive improvement across all assessments in reading, writing and language conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation).

Results reported thus far have been mixed: an analysis of 2013 cohort data by Wayne State University professor Thomas C. Pedroni found that the majority of EAA students failed to demonstrate progress toward proficiency on the state's assessments in reading and math, and some students» performance (approximately one - third) declined.

Viewed as a group, schools managed by our CMOs achieve rates of proficiency on state assessments in reading and math that average about 9 percentage points higher than those of schools in their local districts (see Figure 2).

Despite facing higher academic standards and budget cuts, urban schools are continuing to see gains on assessments in reading and mathematics, a national study released last week has found.

He was very clear that he still favors annual statewide assessments in reading and math (3 — 8 and high school).

Although direct writing assessment is still a mainstay of many assessment programs, more recent efforts at performance assessment in reading and writing go further, including longer and more complex reading selections from a variety of genres, higher level comprehension questions, extended written responses, and cross-text analyses.

North Carolina, for example, currently pays approximately $ 10 per student to conduct a summative assessment in reading and math in grades 3 — 8 and for course - end assessments in high school.

(Use PISA assessment in reading, math, and science, if available, as a way to benchmark.)

She is the author of a research - based integrated approach to reading and assessment in Reading Assessment: Linking Language, Literacy, and Cognition.

Nearly 300 of the approximately 850 students entering Robert P. Hernandez Middle School had failed the state assessment in reading.

The USDE's latest correspondence says Illinois has until Aug. 31 to provide evidence that it will «select and administer the same statewide assessment in reading / language arts and mathematics to all students in high school in the 2016 - 17 school year, and that the state will commit to doing so each year thereafter.»

In other words, a school's goal should not be to administer a universal screening assessment in reading but to ensure that all students are able to read proficiently.

Not exact matches

Today, that messaging is gone, replaced by a few caveats: «We need to do more research to determine the connection between improved assessment scores and everyday tasks in participants» lives,» the company's website reads.

Measured against 65 other countries, Canada places fifth overall in reading, seventh in science and eighth in mathematics, behind China, Korea, Finland and Singapore in the Organization for Co-operation and Economic Development's (OCED) education assessment released in 2010.

I learned that while reading Teresa Amabile's research on motivation in organizations, which led to the creation of her assessment tool, KEYS.

So, Ryan, if indeed we get strong readings in the PCE and other indexes, does it change your assessment of what the Fed is going to do or do you think the Fed would reassess?

This assessment is based on the usual wide range of individual estimates, with some allowance made for the seasonal compositional effects that generally boost measured median prices in the December quarter and weigh on the March quarter reading.

I thought of this photograph while reading Nina Shea's searing assessment, in yesterday's National Review Online, of the US's treatment of Syrian Christian refugees.

After reading I Am A Church member I've concluded that Mr. Myers is correct in his assessment of the current state of the institutional church.

I was especially dismayed by his reading of my assessment of the real contributions of evangelicals and Roman Catholics in U.S. public culture; my point (more an aside, really) was simply that, for various reasons, they can not replace the kind of service to civil society that the mainline provides — not that they do no service at all.

You can read Nick Cohen's assessment of their slimy symbiosis in The Guardian.

This is due to having read things like Martha Bayles's assessment (in the best book on rock), which begins with his poetry and proceeds to his character:

(So that when you read a news story, for instance, you might also get a composite assessment value that was assigned directly from other readers without them ever having to express such assessment via speaking, writing, etc. if a group of people are on the scene of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.)

As a Catholic school parent, I enjoyed reading Charles Glenn's optimistic assessment of the future of religious schools in «Faith - Based Resistance» (December).

With this filter in place, the next step is to diversify voices we listen to by reading ethnic minority authors who are communicating their assessments of the social constructs inside and outside of Evangelicalism.

Although he was in his office most of the day on conference calls, working on assessments, and catching up on all of... Read More»

I feel comfortable in this assessment because when I first read about the young girl at Yankee Stadium, I was watching a baseball game from behind a protective net.

It's not so much that Tunsil was a bad pass blocker — if you read my breakdown you know he was actually pretty good at it — but I just didn't get to see him block an edge rusher one - on - one enough in four games to be truly comfortable with my assessment of how good or bad he was doing it.