Sentences with phrase «gain in math»

By extending learning time, concentrating on school leadership, and giving many schools greater autonomy, the district made noticeable gains in reading scores and significant gains in math scores.

She found that students taught by the high - expectations group made significant gains in math compared with the control group.

Students showed higher gains in math achievement when their teachers reported frequent conversations with their peers that centered on math, and when there was a feeling of trust or closeness among teachers.

Third - graders also showed the largest gains in math instruction minutes over two decades, moving from 54 minutes in 1998 to 72 minutes in 2017.

They pointed in particular to two partner schools with double digit gains in math and reading proficiency.

In middle school and high school, students gain in both math and language arts.

Students made short - term gains in math and reading achievement, were better prepared for high school, and took fewer remedial courses once there.

Results from a new report on test scores show the nation's students making modest gains in math and science in recent years, while failing to significantly increase their reading and writing performance.

In charter schools, the grade level with the biggest gains in math compared to last year was eighth grade with a 3 percentage point increase.

For either the 1992 - 2000 period or the 1996 - 2000 period, the average gain in math among high - stakes states noticeably exceeded that of the no - accountability states.

In magnets schools, the grade level that made the biggest gains in math was third grade with a 3 percentage point increase.

New research suggests that young children may make gains in math by counting with their fingers.

In 2004, for example, average learning gains in math were only 7 percent of a standard deviation higher in A schools than in those given a B (see Figure 2).

Those at the bottom are making at least the same rate of gain in math as the rest.

Last fall, the government reported sluggish gains in math in a companion series of federal tests.

Yet when controlling for demographics, about two - thirds of the city's ten - year gains in math persist for fourth - grade and eighth - grade students.

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.

These benefits include gains in math, science, reading, and critical thinking skills, as well as improvements in graduation rates.

We've seen rapid gains in math and science, but along with the rest of the state, know we need to ensure our students are growing in reading just as quickly.

However, compared with district schools, charter schools made greater overall gains in math and science proficiency rates from the previous school year.

For those without special accommodations, one finds no gains in verbal scores and just a 0.1 standard deviation gain in math scores over this period of time.

In the charter sector, students displaced from a closed school also made substantial gains in math — forty - six additional days — but did not make statistically significant gains in reading.

Using the program with their students allows them to develop their own personal success stories of students who became engaged and made enormous gains in both math and reading.

When you look back at how the nation's scores have changed over the years (see chart), you see giant gains in math since 1990, especially for fourth graders.

While we've seen gains in math achievement, we have seen only modest improvements in reading achievement in grade four, and minimal, if any, in grades eight or twelve.

The results give us reason to hope, though, from slightly narrowing achievement gaps to consistent reading performance and long - term gains in math.

This includes gains in math, science, reading, and critical thinking skills and improvements in graduation rates.

The four - year trend included 1 percentage - point gains in math proficiency for multiracial and white students and for English language learners, to 44 percent, 69 percent and 29 percent, respectively.

But Los Angeles Unified School District students posted small gains in math, the best performance among the state's 10 largest school districts, and had a smaller dip in English than their peers statewide.

The necessary gains in math proficiency can only be achieved if instruction is streamlined to target the unique learning profile of each student: comprehension, skill level, learning style, and strategies for processing thought.

For example, two elementary buildings in Swan Valley Schools are collaborating around the implementation of the Focused Instructional Model (FIM) in math and seeing great gains in math scores.

Students who rated themselves lower on these non-cognitive skills had more absences, got in trouble more and made fewer gains in math.

These children made dramatic gains in math achievement when they engaged with the math app,» Berkowitz said.

The evidence of substantial and almost universal gains in math is undoubtedly good news for advocates of NCLB.

Fryer and his team reported statistically significant gains in math for students in Apollo middle and high schools as well as strong high - school English - language arts results.

Gains in math went up by double - digits and reading scores climbed 15 percent.

In that middle school, two of every seven students come from economically challenged homes; overall they had mixed results on state tests of academic achievement, but there were slight gains in math scores for students in the blended learning program.

When you net out these two effects, there was an overall positive gain in math scores, although one that might seem rather small («8 percent of one standard deviation»).

Finally, we show that existing students have also experienced gains in math even though the students who are new to the District's public school system score at higher levels on standardized tests when compared to existing students.

The academic advantage for students with 20 or more days of attendance in a five - to - six - week voluntary summer program after the second summer translated to between 20 and 25 percent of typical annual gains in math and reading.

A 2006 study by Douglas Harris used data from 22,000 schools to find that the Latino and African American gains in math were far greater in diverse schools than in segregated ones.

Of the six cities for which it reported scores last year, ANet said four made twice the gains in English as the rest of their respective states, and three made double the state gains in math.

Specifically, we find that the accountability provisions of NCLB generated large and broad gains in the math achievement of 4th graders and somewhat smaller gains for 8th graders.

State - level NAEP results released in the fall found no gains in reading and the same modest gains in math as reported today for the urban districts.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, accountability was an exogenous shock that produced radical gains in math if not in reading.

Black students in particular demonstrate large relative gains in math achievement prior to entering a middle school but then suffer larger drops both at and following the transition.»

Noticeable gains in math, science, and reading have been achieved by U.S. students in 4th and 8th grade on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

A widely cited NAEP analysis shows statistically significant gains in math attributable to NCLB, but no evidence for such gains in reading.