Sentences with phrase «grade math scores decreased»
To assess the latter, let's focus on the eight states where Amrein and Berliner concluded that 4th - grade math scores decreased following the introduction of high - stakes testing.
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In 2015 scores in mathematics decreased for low - and mid-performing 4th graders compared to 2013, and this year we again see a decrease for lower performers in 4th grade math, as well as in reading, while such a decrease is not evident for higher performers.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Boston, pre-kindergarten programs demonstrate impressive outcomes that include positive effects on math scores, grade retention, and chronic absenteeism at the end of grade 8; increased achievement on language arts, literacy, math, and science, as well as decreased grade retention and special education placement at the end of grade 5; and stronger than typical impacts on academic readiness (effect sizes in the 0.4 — 0.6 range) at school entry.
A recent study of the Texas program, which enrolls more than 224,000 children, looked at the effects of the program by third grade and concluded that it had a «substantially meaningful» impact, and that children who attended saw increased scores in math and reading and decreases in grade retention and special education services.
And over the last four years, the city's average score on eighth - grade math decreased by one point.
In math, fourth - grade scores decreased in New York and eighth - grade scores lost ground in Missouri.
The overall score decreases were quite small — roughly two points in math and a single point in reading — but continued a trend of lackluster 12th - grade performance on the national test.
On the eighth - grade math test, scores decreased in 22 states compared to 2013, the last time the test was given.
A recent study of the Texas program, which enrolls more than 224,000 children, looked at the effects of the program by third grade and concluded that it had a «substantially meaningful» impact, and that children who attended saw increased scores in math and reading and decreases in grade retention and special education services.