Sentences with phrase «grade scores»

In math, average fourth - grade scores in four districts increased over the last two years.

African - American and white students in fourth grade scored the highest gains in reading compared with any other urban district.

Although the 8th grade scores increased, they aren't improving fast enough.

With an investment grade score of «AA», this is yet another low risk bond for investment and features a current yield of 1.2 percent.

The buy and hold strategy is where investors buy bonds with good investment grade score and good interest rates and hold the bonds until the maturity period is reached.

Under a growth system, a school might be rated based on how much progress 5th grade students make over their 4th grade scores during an academic year.

As the first standardized measure of achievement, third grade scores represent everything that has occurred from birth through third grade.

The results show average reading scores in fourth grade reading dipped to levels of a decade ago and eighth grade scores declined as well.

Reading scores weren't much better; eighth - grade scores dropped while fourth - grade performance was stagnant compared with 2013, the last time the test was administered.

And most impressively, third - grade scores across the board are up.

Students observed in a charter school in second grade, however, have substantially higher second grade scores, on average.

• As a group, girls in 10th grade scored significantly lower than boys on an index that estimated their growth mindset of mathematics ability.

But note what happened in 2015: Its fourth grade scores went way up.

The state's eighth - grade scores improved from 2015 in both reading and math.

One would expect fourth grade scores to make strides forward if you hold back all of those not reading well in the third grade!

Moreover, as government bonds have higher investment grade score, the yield rate tends to be low.

Maintain progress notes, attendance records, and grade scores in a timely manner.

The college presidents said they will compare 11th grade scores on PARCC with those on exams like Accuplacer, SAT and ACT this year to see if they match up in determining who is college - ready.

She said the practice where admissions were based purely on grades scored at the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) tendered to favour students from the limited well - endowed senior high schools and invariably rich homes.

The report, released last week by the U.S. Department of Education, is based on 4th grade scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a set of federally mandated tests given periodically to nationally representative samples of students.

The down graded score for facilities was due to the temporary offices (tent).

I find that the gains among initial 3rd graders were not as dramatic as those shown on the 4th - grade NAEP, thereby suggesting that the 4th - grade scores did create the appearance of steeper achievement growth than actually took place.

Actually, it's anyone's guess why the 4th - grade scores rose so sharply this year at the same time that the 8th - grade reading and social studies scores went from bad to worse (with only 32.8 percent of city 8th graders meeting state standards in reading and 20 percent in social studies).

To recall, the seventh grade scores in ELA were drastically lower, with all districts having no more than 50 % of their schools receive positive value - added scores (five of which had fewer than 25 %).

After two years, Knox County third grade scores down despite $ 3 million literacy grant.

This is apparent from their higher readability and reading grade scores.

Breaking out the 12th - grade scores by race since 2005 show some small differences in trends among groups, as well as yawning and largely stagnant achievement gaps.

According to Read to Succeed Executive Director Anne Ryan, students who miss 10 percent of kindergarten and first grade scored an average of 60 points below similar students with good attendance on third grade reading tests.

Another test assay, the global acne grading score (GAGS), «did not change by a significant amount» in either group, but was still slightly higher in the sunflower seed group.

This Excel document shows grade - by - grade score comparisons of individual charter schools to their neighborhood district averages for Math and English Language Arts, 2009 - 10.

The newness of the test was cited by educators in several districts where eighth - grade scores fell.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that 8th grade reading scores have remained the same and 12th grade scores have dropped significantly since 1992.

Fifth grade ELA scores fell consistently in the middle range, while the third grade scores varied across districts.

This year, the District of Columbia and Mississippi had fourth - grade score gains in mathematics, but the rest of Duncan's superstars had mathematics scores that dropped or were flat.

In reading, fourth - grade scores slipped in Missouri and South Dakota.

At one point, the fifth grade scores in his charter school were so low that Canada simply removed the entire fifth grade class.

After controlling for students» economic and language backgrounds, Florida's fourth - grade scores lead the nation in both reading and math.

The 5th grade scores of black students who enter school with average math and reading skills are one - half a standard deviation below those of their white peers and place at the 20 — 25th percentile of the white distribution.

To understand this achievement problem, the staff disaggregated the below - proficient 3rd grade scores (student learning) by gender and ethnicity (demographic).

Companies such as A.M. Best or Standard & Poor's provide credit and stability grades, using letter grade scores from superior / strong (AAA or A + +) to weak / vulnerable (F or CC) based on an insurer's current financial strength.

Mathematics and Languages achievements with perfect grade scores.

A 2009 Stanford University study found that fifth, seventh and ninth grade students in California who passed the state physical fitness test and those whose fitness improved between fifth and seventh grade scored better than their less fit peers on the state's standardized tests.

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.

We measured value - added with the average change in combined reading and math scores for a school's students between the end of 3rd grade and the end of 4th grade; we measured cross-cohort changes with the change in 4th grade scores from one year to the next.