Sentences with phrase «at grade level means»

In other words, the fact that two - thirds of fourth - graders can not read at grade level means our current policies and systems are failing them in multiple ways.

What will the use of calculators at all grade levels mean for teaching mathematics?

Not exact matches

Catching the eye at the Under - 23's level means nothing if you can't back it up with performances on the main stage and questions have therefore come about as to whether he will ever make the grade under the German.

You should look more closely at the technical specifications before buying a breast pump like this, because a weaker motor would mean the motor would have to work harder to perform at the same level as other personal grade breast pumps — meaning it could wear out faster.

Some students in the class are reading at a first - or second - grade level, and some above fourth grade, which means Boxwood has to tweak her lesson plans a bit.

When a high school is producing seniors who read at an 8th - grade level, it means everybody is moving on at the same time, whether they are ready or not.

Building a pipeline for 21st - century learning doesn't mean that instruction looks the same at every grade level.

[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.

That means teachers being able to work together in teams, people who are teaching in the same subject area or at the same grade level, sharing their knowledge, getting out and about to conferences, participating in professional learning to really build in each school a genuine professional learning community.

These inconsistencies often result in wide discrepancies in letter grade meaning, as classmates at different skill levels receive similar letter grades, while students in different classrooms, at the same skill level, receive different letter grades.

This means that they have only partially mastered the knowledge and skills that are fundamental for proficient work at their grade levels.

Did anyone at the conference even ask for «released» items after the «common tests» are given so we can see what is meant by a grade - level exam?

As the percentage of students reading at grade level changes little between 8th and 12th grades, it means that more than 90 percent of Black students in these states are unlikely to graduate from high school college - and career - ready.

Teaching isn't easy, and working at Alliance means having high expectations for ourselves and for all 13,000 of our scholars, including the majority who come to us significantly behind grade level, those who have special needs, and the high achievers whom we must keep engaged and motivated.

But also note: The red line in this picture is above the blue line, meaning that a greater proportion of black high school graduates completed college than tested at a college - ready level in twelfth grade.

Loveless countered that Proficient in NAEP meant mastery over challenging subject - matter, not doing mathematics or reading at grade level.

Our Black parents need to know that an «A» in English doesn't necessarily mean your child is reading at or above grade level.

This means that the SGP calculation compares the pre / post progress for a student with a history of high achievement to the pre / post progress of other high - achieving students nationwide at that grade level.

Educators know that there is no consistency in the meaning of letter grades on report cards across classrooms at the same grade level within the same building, let alone across schools or districts.

This means that, regardless of how well the student scores on their PSSA test, they have only done work at that test's grade level.

Although there was no statistically significant difference on mean beginning level of regular education, special education, and at - risk students, results showed that upper - class special education males and ninth - grade at - risk females had the largest increase in mean ending level within the program.

This means that if your 3rd grader receives a grade equivalent score on an individual achievement test of grade 5.8 in math, that she is working, at least on the questions that were asked, at the level of an average late 5th grader.

They learned that most students were below grade level in recognizing synonyms and determining meaning for words with multiple meanings but were at grade level or above in using context clues.

This means that at each grade level, we must not only be teaching and assessing the skill of collaboration, but we must think about how it looks different from grade level to grade level.

And that they're — what the studies showed is what you really need to do is find ways to get the kids to read more challenging texts at their grade level, which means at first — and the teachers today helped explain this so, so much better than I could — that the teachers start by reading it aloud, having the kids follow along.

It means trying to convince schools that my child needs special education services even though he is working at grade level, because that is still far below his intellectual capacity.

Summative applications at this level include accurate summaries of evidence and grading symbols that carry clear and consistent meaning for all.

At the 7th grade level, learning the meaning of math vocabulary is vital to succeeding in middle school.

In other instances, the content stays at the same level of difficulty across two or more grades, as with recognizing multiple - meaning words, rather than moving from lower to higher levels of difficulty as needed.

I mean if you've got a 5th grader reading at a second grade level, and by the end of the year he's reading at a 4th grade level that should be rewarded.

Thomas noted taking on eligible recovery charter schools could mean schools with a «C» letter grade from the state, which means they are operating at lower level academically than the current Orleans Parish schools.

They're meant to replace a hodgepodge of state standards with one set of clear, consistent goals for what students should learn in Math and English at every grade level.

In earlier grades, word identification fluency (WIF) is also a strong predictor of early reading ability, but again, not a perfect one (Fuchs, Fuchs, & Compton, 2004; Schatschneider, 2006) This means that screening instruments that rely on single measures such as ORF or WIF will provide fairly good information about student performance, but alone they can't provide information at levels needed for an effective RTI process (> 90 % sensitivity; > 80 % specificity).

In Year 2, based on requests from teachers for regular feedback related to their observations, teachers received a copy of each observation, a description of the codes, a brief summary of research related to the major coding categories being analyzed for the project (e.g., incidence of whole group instruction, and incidence of higher - level questioning; see page 17), and a table summarizing the codes from their observations (e.g., the incidence of whole - group instruction, the incidence of higher - level questioning, etc.) and comparing them to the means at their grade level across all schools.

Even though the vast majority of teachers at all schools in the project voted to engage in schoolwide reading reform, the schools clearly have a long way to go to raise their reading scores to «breaking the mold» levels, with current mean standardized reading comprehension scores across schools, for example, standing at 40 in grades 2 and 3, and at 37 in grades 4 and 5.

Besides the enormous concerns with Achievement First's disciplinary policies as revealed in the report last year (which should have resulted in placing the charter under state supervision and in preventing additional school takeovers, I mean openings), a troubling issue with In - School Suspensions, Time Out Rooms, and Out - of - School suspensions, at all grade levels, is that it takes students out of the learning environment.

Meaningful growth means at least one year's worth of growth for students who are at or above grade level and more than one year's worth of growth for students who are below grade level

Over the past few days we've been on a mission to track down the source and meaning of a clause in the Magnet School's Operating Agreement that says, «New students entering beyond grade 3 must be reading at grade level.»

In particular, a score at or above «Level 3» in grade 11 is meant to suggest conditional evidence that a student is ready for entry - level, transferable, credit - bearing college couLevel 3» in grade 11 is meant to suggest conditional evidence that a student is ready for entry - level, transferable, credit - bearing college coulevel, transferable, credit - bearing college courses.

It's autumn in Pennsylvania, which means it's time to look at the rich data to be gleaned from our Big Standardized Test (called PSSA for grades 3 - 8, and Keystone Exams at the high school level).

Any lag in reading does not mean a child can not think at grade level or beyond.

It might also mean that, instead of giving 6th grade students reading at 3rd grade levels «baby» elementary school texts, teachers provided them supports to access the upper - grade material so they could participate in sophisticated peer - level conversations.

But this means many changes in curriculum and expectations at each grade level.

An overhaul of league tables to stop schools from using vocational exams to boost their GCSE - level scores, and to rank the proportion of pupils gaining the new baccalaureate - meaning they have obtained at least a C grade in maths, English, a language, a science subject and a humanities subject

This means that they have very little material to indicate if a child is «above» age or grade level, and consist mostly of «at» age or grade level questions.

At the university level, specifically, failure to perform this critical task can mean inferior grades, impacting a semester grade and ultimately one's GPA.

This means using positive role models to inspire altruistic behavior and providing opportunities at every grade level to perform acts of school and community service.

Almost 42 percent of third - grade students in Philadelphia are reading at or above grade level — which means that about 58 percent are reading below that level.

He was reading at 4 years old and I mean reading at an 8th grade level.