Sentences with phrase «fifth grade performance»

Is it more valuable to know about third grade performance, across multiple years, or third, fourth, and fifth grade performance in a single school year?

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PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

At a ceremony that included a saxophone performance and was attended by the Friends of the East Elmhurst Library as well as by about 30 fifth - and eighth - grade students from East Elmhurst's PS 127, the East Elmhurst Library's Community Library Manager Johnnie Dent and Queens Library Chief Executive Officer Tom Galante thanked Peralta for his donation.

Using income as well as math and reading scores, the study also found that the lower the household income during infancy, the worse the children's performance on reading and math in fifth grade — replicating the well - known gap between income and achievement.

The study found that the children's performance in fifth grade could be explained, in part, by how they did on the third grade planning task, even when taking IQ into consideration.

In this randomized controlled study on the impact of the arts on performance in traditional academic subjects, theater arts were integrated into language arts and social studies curricula for fourth - and fifth - grade students (14 experimental classrooms, 14 control classrooms).

Profile report of overall performance for entire fifth grade on a benchmark test.

Fifth - grade lead teacher Joshua White looks at student performance on each «strand» of standards in reading, writing, and math, both within his own class and across the grade.

Third grade is the first time students are tested statewide, and fifth grade is generally the end of elementary school, so these two grades represents the bookends of ages in which we observe performance statewide in elementary school.

Among the 43 states that in 1998 were gathering information on their students» performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Florida had the fifth - lowest 4th - grade reading scores.

The first thing that is immediately apparent is that the correlation between the performance of high - SES students and the performance of low - SES students in the same school is positive but relatively modest (0.34 and 0.27 in third and fifth grades, respectively).

For example, the only standardized tests that will count toward Adequate Yearly Progress, the federal performance measure, will be those that students take in the highest grade at their school; fifth grade in a K - 5 school, 8th grade in middle school and 12th grade in high school.

This article examines the performance of more than 6,000 third - through fifth - grade teachers for whom reliable data were available.

For example, in Kajoshaj v. New York City Department of Education (2013), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a civil rights suit of a Muslim student of Albanian descent who was retained for a second year in the fifth grade based on deficient performance on the statewide language arts test.

The most notable grade cohort was fifth graders whose Lexile reading performance exceeded the growth expected with typical instruction by an average of 63 points.

A pay - for - performance study released by Vanderbilt University and the RAND Corporation followed nearly 300 Nashville Public Schools fifth - through eighth - grade teachers from 2007 to 2009.

Figure 2: Poor children who were chronic absentees in kindergarten had the lowest performance in reading and math in fifth grade

This indicates that although Capital Preparatory Magnet only receives a GreatSchools rating of a three out of ten, there is great improvement in student academic performance between the third and fifth grades.

As a result, she chose to focus on fifth grade because their performance is indicative of other factors, both internal and external.

Data solely about fifth grade math performance in a standardized test doesn't paint a whole picture.

Each score report — such a fifth grade student's math report — explains student performance based on the following performance levels: mastered, on track, approaching, or below.

After using DreamBox for just one year, Kerrick Elementary's third -, fourth -, and fifth - grade students showed tremendous gains on their statewide exams in May, with 69 percent improving by one performance level.

The newspaper analyzed seven years of student test scores in English and math to determine how much students» performance improved under about 6,000 third - through fifth - grade teachers.

The Black - White achievement gap in children's reading and mathematics school performance from 4 1/2 years of age through fifth grade was examined in a sample of 314 lower income American youth followed

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