Sentences with phrase «grade reading proficiency scores»

In Salt Lake, 3rd grade reading proficiency scores rose 15.5 % from 2013 - 2014.

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Everything I know about the slow growing, cumulative nature of language proficiency suggests it is all but impossible to test prep your way to a high score on a third to eighth grade reading test, especially the more challenging Common Core tests.

Although the increases were most significant in the lower grades, the number of seventh - grade students with limited English proficiency who scored above the 50th percentile also increased — by 2 percent in language, reading, and spelling and by 3 percent in math.

At Blackstone Valley Prep, analysis of the suburban and urban students» scores on the 2013 state exams measuring proficiency in reading and math offers 80 different snapshots, by grade, subject and family income, with Blackstone students faring better than their peers on nearly all.

Third grade reading proficiency is up 15 percent at all community schools, based on end - of - year tests and Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills or DIBELS scores.

The law requires that every state test every student from grades three to eight in reading and mathematics, then disaggregate each school's scores by race, limited English proficiency, disability and low - income status.

Students in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 9th grades could be held back if they failed to score at the district benchmark in math and reading on nationally normed tests - the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) or the Test of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP) for 9th graders.

These include students» grade level, Limited English Proficiency status and eligibility for subsidized school meals, their teachers» years of experience in North Carolina public schools, class size, school size, schools» racial and socioeconomic makeup, and schools» average math and reading scores on statewide tests.

When student test scores on the Ohio Academic Assessment indicated that only 33 % of Jones sixth graders were at the minimum state acceptance rates, middle childhood education students at Lourdes College stepped in to volunteer an hour each week to work with the sixth grade students to improve their reading proficiency.

Fourth grade reading and math proficiency as well as eighth grade math proficiency have both garnered lower or the same scores since 2011.

Education Equality Index Scores are calculated using proficiency data from annual state assessments taken by students in math and reading across all grades tested.

n The report highlights data such as fourth grade reading scores, eighth grade math results and Kentucky's college - and career - readiness results showing a 30 percentage - point gap between students based on English language proficiency, a 25 percentage - point gap between African American and white students, a 20 percentage - point gap based on identified learning differences and also family income, and a 10 percentage - point gap between Hispanic students and their white peers.

All of these are based on test scores (PSSA, PASA, SAT, reading proficiency in grade 3.)

However, it is very difficult for me to find anything positive about the Houston results, particularly the reading proficiency levels for the fourth - and eighth - grade students in the Houston Independent School District, which were scored at 18 % and 17 %, respectively.

Its reading scores at goal, the level higher than proficiency, in 5th grade were better than Achievement First, despite the fact that it serves a much needier population.

While Louisiana's proficiency goal is for all students to be Basic and above, in the voucher schools, only 35 % of 3rd graders and 29 % of 4th graders earned scores indicating they are grade level proficient in reading.

Yet according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the reading proficiency of 12th - grade black students has declined by five points over those two decades, and the scores of white students have not budged.