Sentences with phrase «below average proficiency»

States in the bottom left quadrant experienced below average growth and below average proficiency.

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After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Chicago — Mastery learning has proved its worth as a method of teaching reading, especially to students whose proficiency is below average, but educators who use the sometimes - controversial method should not regard it as a «quick fix» for poor basic - skills test scores.

Moreover, if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of low performers in countries with average test scores similar to the United States.

-- In an international math test taken by students worldwide in 1995 (the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, or TIMSS), U.S. student math proficiency for 8th graders fell below the international average (28th out of 41 countries).

When charting the average mathematics scale score and percentage of students eligible for free and reduced - price lunch in the 4th and 8th grades, we find that only nine or fewer states had a smaller percentage of students than Minnesota below «basic» proficiency.

Illinois set its proficiency bar for 8th - grade reading at a level that is 1.01 standard deviations below the national average.

The graph below compares average math and reading proficiency rates over two time periods.

Schools with low growth (below the average) and single digit reading proficiency should not be called good schools.

Achievement First Bushwick's ELA 2010 proficiency rates range from 23 % to 42 %, below the state average and the author's 90 % mark.

At the other end of the spectrum, 29 percent of U.S. students scored below the PISA proficiency level, which was higher than the international average of 23 percent.

In 2004, when Santa Ana Unified began implementing the program, students scored at 35 percent proficiency, 16 points below California state average.

Schools starting below 50 percent proficiency gain an average of 15 to 20 points within two years of using the software.

Most standard tests are designed to provide accurate scores for students near proficiency; because there are not enough items measuring performance at the lower end of the scale, the tests may provide very limited information about students who score substantially below average.

LAUSD scored a «low» on ELA with students in an average of 39.6 points below proficiency.

For K - 8 students taking the Forward Exam, the average is relative to an arbitrary proficiency cutline that tells us nothing about how far below or above the cutline students scored.

That's still below the designated «proficiency» level for the nation of 280 and while California's average scores for white and Asian students reach that level, those for black and Latino students are about 30 points lower, a gap that is fundamentally unchanged over the last 10 years of NAEP testing.

You can also see a chart below that totals the percent point change in reading for each grade level (e.g., grade 3, 4 and 5 reading proficiency change from 2011 to 2012), providing the overall average for a school.