Sentences with phrase «grade math scores among»

Eighth - grade math scores among the highest performers also improved substantially over the period, gaining 14 points nationally and 17 points in Texas (Figure 10).

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The corresponding changes among eighth - grade math scores are small only in comparison: 6 points nationwide, 11 points for black students, 10 points for Hispanic students, and 8 points for those students at the 10th percentile.

In the first full year after the storm, the Behrman scores were among the best in the city; nearly the entire fourth grade scored at grade level or above proficiency in English and math.

Our results demonstrate that, among students who enter in a typical grade, attending a charter school improves reading and math scores by an amount that is both statistically and substantively significant.

Among student subgroups, the study also finds that «grade configuration has a larger effect on the math scores of traditionally disadvantaged subgroups than on other students.

Among Florida ELL eighth - graders at middle schools that do not have a sufficient number of white eighth - grade students, only about 10 % scored at or above the proficient level in math.

For example, among eighth - grade ELL students in Florida, about 30 % score at or above the proficient level in math if they attend a middle school that has a minimum threshold number of white students.

Nationally, average NAEP scores were also lackluster, with average math scores declining slightly among fourth - and eighth - graders, and in eighth - grade reading.

The second innovation is the use of the Hispanic cohort's 10th grade basic math scores as a control for performance - based selection biases among the different language treatments.

According to the NAEP (2013) among 12th grade students only 26 percent of all students score at or above proficient levels in math, and 38 percent are proficient or better in reading.

Madison's strongest gains were among eighth grade math scores, with the percentage of black students scoring proficient gaining 8 percentage points, Hispanic students gaining 16 percentage points and low - income students gaining 6.5 percentage points over last year.

Among 12th grade students — remember that a significant group of students has already dropped out by this point — 26 percent score at or above proficient levels in math, and 38 percent are proficient or better in reading (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2013)

In a study of students selected not on IQ but on mathematical or verbal aptitude, Dauber and Benbow (199012) compared the popularity, peer acceptance and peer interaction of extremely gifted students who had scored 700 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Mathematical) or 630 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Verbal) before age 13 (an achievement placing them at the top 1 in 10,000 among their age - peers) with those of moderately gifted students who scored at the 97th percentile on a grade - level math or verbal achievement test.

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.

Scores in eighth math grade growth were also strong, being among the top five in the nation.

Mississippi ranks near the bottom among all states in a number of markers including children ages 1 through 5 whose families read to them more than 3 days a week, fourth - and eighth - grade reading and math levels, on - time high - school graduation and average composite ACT scores.

In 2007, third - grade math scores at the school ranked in the 21st percentile among the state's 1,961 schools.

This report is a companion to a study that found that high school grade point average was a stronger predictor of performance in college - level English and math than were standardized exam scores among first - time students at the University of Alaska who enrolled directly in college - level courses.

Among Hispanic students, 45 percent in fourth grade and 34 percent in eighth grade score at the lowest level in reading, and 27 percent and 40 percent score below basic in math in grades 4 and 8 respectively.