Not exact matches
In 3rd
grade reading, girls»
scores rise by 0.038 points for every 10 percentage point change in the share of their class that is female.
While the math achievement of American students has
risen steadily in recent decades, especially in the early
grades,
reading scores have barely budged.
Teacher quality plays a role, but note how fourth -
grade NAEP math
scores have
risen over the years while
reading has remained flat, even though the same teacher usually handles both subjects.
The one exception was eighth -
grade reading, with the average
score rising by one point between 2015 and 2017.
Common Core supporters will point to the
rise in
reading scores in 2017 — nearly 3 points in 4th
grade, about 4 points in 8th — to argue that teachers are using better materials and have become more skilled in teaching the new standards.
Tenth -
grade scores on the Ohio Graduation Tests
rose by double - digits in
reading, math, writing and social students, and went up 9 percent in science.
Reading scores have largely stagnated across the nation in fourth and eighth
grade over the 20 years that the test has been given while math
scores have
risen to their highest point.
A Johns Hopkins University study found that low - income and wealthy students»
reading test
scores over summer breaks from first to fifth
grade rose by.26 and 52.49 points, respectively.
From the beginning of this century through 2015, fourth
grade math
scores rose by 23 points, fourth
grade reading by 11 points, and eighth
grade math by 17 points — all statistically significant improvements.
In Salt Lake, 3rd
grade reading proficiency
scores rose 15.5 % from 2013 - 2014.
Fifth -
grade students were the only ones to see any improvement on
reading scores,
rising from 48.8 percent of students proficient in 2015 to 51.1 percent in 2017.
The exception was eighth -
grade reading scores, which
rose slightly.
Scores for the top quartile
rose slightly in eighth -
grade reading and math.