Black
eighth graders gained twenty - three points from 1990 to 2015, Hispanic students gained twenty - four, and white students gained twenty - two.
Not exact matches
On statewide tests for third through
eighth graders this year, New York City's most troubled schools kept pace with the rest of city schools, showing similar
gains in reading and math.
Either way, the
gains for
eighth graders were only half as large, and they all but evaporated by twelfth grade.
Eighth graders saw a five - point
gain from 2000 to 2003, but only a three - point
gain from 2003 to 2007.
The sharpest
gains for these high - performing
eighth graders in Texas were between 2000 and 2005, building on the improvement made in math by Texas fourth
graders four years earlier.
Eighth graders have
gained almost two years.
The results from the 2017 National Assessment of Education Progress, also called NAEP or The Nation's Report Card, have been released, and they show that fourth - and
eighth -
graders have made little to no
gains in math and reading since 2015.
In 2014, BGCA members who participated in Summer Brain
Gain's project - based learning practices showed significant improvements in reading (fifth - and
eighth -
graders) and math skills (fourth -, fifth -, and sixth -
graders).
An
eighth grader shares what she has
gained from a long - term social and emotional learning program.
In reading there have been
gains in fourth grade, but the national scores for
eighth graders were essentially the same in 2009 as they were in 1998.
Fourth -
graders have made greater
gains than
eighth -
graders, and
eighth -
graders have made larger
gains than twelfth -
graders.
After four years at the charter school,
eighth -
graders showed average test score
gains in math equal to an additional year and a half of school, compared with district students.
For
eighth -
graders across the district, the report showed a four - year
gain of 4 percentage points to 38 percent in reading proficiency, and a 5 percentage - point
gain to 44 percent in math proficiency.
California did stand out with a 4 - point
gain for
eighth -
graders» reading scores.
Fourth - and
eighth -
graders in the United States have made little to no
gains in math and reading since 2015, according to results recently released from the 2017 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP).
Eighth - and ninth -
graders gained 4 percentage points in math, a significant shift in a district so large.
Eighth - and 12th -
graders made similar
gains.
The change of 20 and 30 scale score points, respectively, by Arizona charter
eighth graders is especially laudable, as no state even came close to posting similar
gains during that same timeframe.
Fourth - grade students recorded the highest
gain — four points — among 21 urban school systems since 2011; fourth -
graders also scored higher in math, and
eighth -
graders scored higher in reading.
Differences between grade levels were not significant at either Time 1 or Time 2, and over time,
gains were significant only for
eighth graders (see Table 3).
Finally, results for the ICTA by grade level almost identically mirror those for the TOSRA: While both groups made
gains over time, the rate of
gain for
eighth graders superseded that for seventh
graders.
Eighth -
graders, meanwhile, posted only very modest
gains.
However, controlling for demographics does make the ten - year reading
gains for
eighth graders almost entirely disappear.
Arizona also emerged as a leader in closing the achievement gap between white and Hispanic students, with Hispanic
eighth graders making an 11 point
gain and the gap shrinking significantly by six points.
«The fourth - grade
gains since the»90s have been much larger than the
eighth - grade
gains, and the
eighth - grade
gains have been larger than the 12th - grade
gains — and the 12th -
graders have basically been flat,» said Loveless.
Eighth graders made the fifth largest
gains in math, although that improvement isn't considered statistically significant.