Sentences with phrase «grade reading comprehension test»

Now consider building knowledge: Individual teacher accountability on a fourth - grade reading comprehension test, for instance, is unfair because children's comprehension depends on what they've learned every year, in school and out (a reading test is a de facto test of background knowledge); it's also unproductive because it lets the early - grade teachers off the hook if they don't contribute by teaching the knowledge - building subjects.

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Second - and third - grade students using the Seeds of Science / Roots of Reading units made significantly greater gains in understanding science concepts, knowledge of science vocabulary, and reading comprehension, as measured by tests developed by project researchers, compared to students in comparison conditions for both earth science and life scienceReading units made significantly greater gains in understanding science concepts, knowledge of science vocabulary, and reading comprehension, as measured by tests developed by project researchers, compared to students in comparison conditions for both earth science and life sciencereading comprehension, as measured by tests developed by project researchers, compared to students in comparison conditions for both earth science and life science units.

For instance, University of Michigan psychologist Harold Stevenson found a correlation of 0.52 between the ability to name the letters of the alphabet on entering kindergarten and performance on a standardized test of reading comprehension in grade 10.

In a study tracking children from age 3 through middle school, David Dickinson, now a professor of education at Vanderbilt University, and Catherine Snow, an education professor at Harvard University, found that a child's score on a vocabulary test in kindergarten could predict reading comprehension scores in later grades.

For example, using the Baseball Card, which is an ad - hoc reporting tool available in ADMS and Unify, we can look at how students performed on high - stakes tests, district benchmark assessments, and other measures including the SAT, reading comprehension, and course grades.

The initial study reported in 1992 (Romance & Vitale, 1992) showed that 4th grade Science IDEAS students displayed higher achievement on nationally - normed tests in reading comprehension and in science (in comparison to demographically similar students) and more positive attitudes and self - confidence toward reading comprehension and science.

As a result, our analysis included State C's fourth - grade reading standards, the state - developed reading comprehension test given in the third grade, and the reading portion of the norm - referenced test given in the fourth grade.

It included questions on subjects like Florida's decision to dramatically lower the passing score on its writing exam due to embarrassing scoring glitches, New York's 8th grade test and its absurdly confusing reading comprehension questions, and who pays for and who profits from our national testing explosion.

In the early and middle grades, is a test drawn only from topics that have been taught in school the only fair way to test reading comprehension?

For the purposes of this study, we analyzed the two third - grade reading standards (reading comprehension and reading vocabulary) and the norm - referenced test that was used to assess third - grade students» attainment of these standards.

Assessments included a standardized reading comprehension test (grades 1 - 6) as well as tests considering letter - name knowledge (K - 1), rhyme (K - 1), phonemic awareness (K - 1), word dictation (K - 1), concepts of print (K - 1), fluency (words correct per minute; Deno, 1985)(1 - 6), and writing (responding to a common prompt)(1 - 6).

But here's why I'm worried about leaving out the link between those subjects and reading comprehension: Even if we got rid of high - stakes reading tests tomorrow (which is unlikely to happen), people would still place a huge emphasis on teaching kids to read, especially in the early grades.

The Stanford Achievement Test is a nationally standardized test for children in grades K - 12 covering language arts, math, science, social studies, and reading comprehensTest is a nationally standardized test for children in grades K - 12 covering language arts, math, science, social studies, and reading comprehenstest for children in grades K - 12 covering language arts, math, science, social studies, and reading comprehension.