Sentences with word «grader»

A grader is a person or a machine that assesses or assigns a score or grade to something, like a test, assignment, or road. Full definition
It's a similar story for eighth graders in reading, better than the national average, but they haven't maintained any significant growth in years.
The proportion of eighth graders scoring at or above proficiency levels in reading was the highest in the country.
In addition to raising literacy performance of first graders who struggle even in good classroom settings, Reading Recovery has wider implications for the curriculum and for the development and expansion of teacher expertise.
You know, the ones usually reserved for fourth graders at their school party.
In 2004, for example, the proportion of fourth graders in the city meeting math standards increased to 68 percent, up 16 percentage points since 2001.
For example, the percentage of 8th graders who think that occasional use of synthetic marijuana or over-the-counter cough and cold medications is less than it was last year and in prior years.
Only 51 % of third graders in P.S. 149, the traditional public school that shares the same building, did.
Three fifth graders with learning disabilities received instruction designed to help them incorporate three common planning strategies into their current approach to writing.
Typically, lower performing second graders who are provided with effective reading instruction from the beginning of the year, will make bigger gains from fall to winter.
One father broke down as he said he planned to pull his second grader from school.
For example, a sixth grader with second grade reading skills would need to be monitored using either second or third grade level material.
I designed these with my 5th graders in mind and I'd definitely recommend them for 3rd - 6th grades.
More than 300 seventh graders at five middle schools have been involved in the storytelling project.
Right now the reading proficiency rate for 12th graders with parents who dropped out of high school is 17 percent.
We knew that many of our 9th graders did not have the requisite reading abilities to be successful in their classes, let alone in college or the workforce.
In an area high school, I worked with ninth graders reading on a third to fifth grade level.
One parent complained that five pieces of chicken nuggets is not enough for her son, a 7th grader who weighs 160 pounds.
We have had a teacher out on medical leave for almost the whole year and we have had a classroom of first graders with many different subs.
To investigate these disturbances, researchers compared second and third graders from intact families, to those from divorced families.
A sixth grader reading at a second grade level will not want to be seen carrying around a «baby book,» even if it's the only thing she can read.
Last year, about 50 % of 10th graders scored proficient or advanced on those reading and math tests.
In his third year as governor, 4th and 8th graders scored first in the country in math and English (see Figure 1).
For example, 1st graders who learned to read while in kindergarten not only excel on reading tests, but also are able to use books to learn new material more quickly.
It opened in the fall of 2013 serving 4K through 2nd graders.
The chancellor has said she wants to get all second graders on their proper reading level and has repeatedly stressed the importance of hiring more guidance counselors.
Some eighth graders take elementary algebra before they go to high school.
He can not wait to walk alongside the fifth graders as they navigate their first year of middle school!
Black fourth graders do outperform their national peers in reading, but they haven't made any significant improvement from in at least the last seven years.
We were recognized, in large part, as a result of high math scores — 96 percent of 4th graders passed the state end of grade exam!
For example, your seventh grade student scored the same as a tenth grader taking that seventh grade test.
In every participating state, a majority of 4th and 8th graders perform at the «basic» level or below in reading and mathematics.
This is a lesson for third graders about the heart and blood.
These 3rd graders learn the same concepts — plants and animals and forms of energy — in the same order, from the same textbook as their peers; they just do it online.
Some 5th graders said that their mothers were relieved not to have to make lunches in the morning.
Those fifth and sixth graders use video to bring poetry to life.
The data shows fourth - graders attending charter schools performing about half a year behind students in other public schools in both reading and math.
In reading, by contrast, just over half of the seventh graders met comparable standards.
The percentage of black eighth graders achieving proficient or advanced math scores increased by eight points, to 20 percent in 2017, compared with 12 percent in 2015.
Your 12th grader got accepted to his dream college, yet he or she still doesn't know what the tuition bill will be.
That's the thing: when my 9th graders made reader's timelines, there was a buzz in the room.
They're also planning for more academic intervention for 5th graders across all campuses.
The percentage of ninth graders earning 10 or more credits in a year increased from 82 percent the previous year to 97 percent.
City tests in reading and math for 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 7th graders also posted the largest - ever one - year gains this spring.
Eligible seventh and eighth graders participate in a language immersion trip or exchange for each world language.
American 4th graders failed to show progress, despite spending more time on reading lessons than their peers internationally.
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