Sentences with phrase «highest reading test score»
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A new study just came out showing that America's public schools have the highest reading test scores in the world, if you only included affluent families.
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It found that children of American homeowners scored no better on math and reading tests than renters» kids, nor did they have lower high - school dropout rates.
Studies show that children who eat breakfast at the start of their school day have higher math and reading scores, and demonstrate a sharper memory and faster speeds on cognitive tests.
When kids eat breakfast they demonstrate broader vocabularies, improved memory and faster speed on cognitive tests, and they score higher in both reading and math.
Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.
When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.
By contrast, achievement scores on the Woodcock Word, Passage, and Reading Comprehension tests were higher for breastfed than for bottle - fed children (Table 4).
Though the student bodies in her schools have an overall poverty rate of 77 percent, they regularly register among the highest - scoring schools on standardized math and reading tests.
Boys who were mainly breastfed for at least six months scored 9 per cent higher in mathematics and writing tests, 7 per cent higher in spelling, and 6 per cent higher in reading, compared with boys fed with formula milk or breastfed for shorter periods.
The students who used their assigned strategy correctly had the highest scores on their science tests, even when the researchers controlled for students who had better reading skills to begin with.
In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.
One recent study (pdf) found that among a representative sample of U.S. science students, those who said their science teachers had them read textbooks more often had higher test scores.
In a new longitudinal study, first - generation immigrant children who took part in a community - based intervention had higher scores on math and reading tests than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the program.
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The failure was exemplified by high drop - out rates, dismal national test scores in math, reading, and other subjects, as well as widening achievement gaps.
Ladner found that the reading and math test scores of 3rd graders were higher in schools that offered all - day kindergarten or pre-K, but by 5th grade the differences had disappeared.
It'll boost their reading scores; prepare them to succeed in middle school, high school, and beyond, where U.S. test scores (and other metrics) crash; and equalize opportunity in American society in ways that no anti-poverty or compensatory education program can possibly do.
Children in smaller groups score higher in all standard achievement tests, especially for reading and maths.
To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.
McCandliss and Niogi showed that the stronger the white matter tract in a particular mid-left area of the brain — the thicker its electrical insulation and the more well organized its fibers — the higher the reading scores of children they tested.
Since the mid-1990s, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) has required all districts to submit data that include demographic information, attendance rates, and behavioral outcomes, yearly test scores in math and reading for grades 3 through 8, and subject - specific tests for higher grades.
A study conducted by Fordham University researchers found that reading and math scores on standardized tests are higher at IS 218 than at comparable middle schools.
«We had just received the results of last year's CTBS test,» says McCrory, «and our test scores in reading were even higher than the previous year's.
The average NAEP reading score for Hispanic students in Florida (on a test conducted in English mind you) is now higher than the overall average scores (for students from all racial and ethnic groups) of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.
The study by ctb / McGraw - Hill found that, in 1987, students in grades 1 to 8 who took its Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills scored an average of 6.63 percentile points higher in reading, 10.83 points higher in language, and 14 points higher in mathematics than a 1981 comparison group.
On the 3rd grade reading test, the average female scored 1.1 points - about half a standard deviation - higher than the average male.
The correlation between ratings by principals and the average test scores of a teacher's students is significantly higher than the correlation between ratings by principals and the teacher's value - added rating in reading (0.56 versus 0.32), though not in math.
And, according to international comparative tests (PISA — Programme for International Student Assessment, PIRLS — Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, and TIMMS — Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study), «children with at least two years of preschool achieve much higher scores at age 15 than those who attend no preschool or only one year».
The first state standardized test scores are in, and the 11th graders did no better than those at other comprehensive, non-selective city high schools: about one - quarter of the students met proficiency standards in reading and a mere 7 percent in math.
The study found that after multimedia technology was used to support project - based learning, eighth graders in Union City, New Jersey, scored 27 percentage points higher than students from other urban and special needs school districts on statewide tests in reading, math, and writing achievement.
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.
«Overall, across all grades, we found that implementing any SIG - funded model had no significant impacts on math or reading test scores, high school graduation, or college enrollment.»
In the year 2000, American kids scored much higher than kids in Poland on tests of reasoning, math, and reading comprehension.
Specifically, students in countries that permit teacher salaries to be adjusted for outstanding performance score approximately one - quarter of a standard deviation higher on the international math and reading tests, and about 15 percent higher on the science test, than students in countries without performance pay.
To no one's surprise, that graph shows that in every country students who come from higher - income families score higher on math and reading tests.
High school students in a half - dozen states are scoring much worse in reading on one version of the Stanford Achievement Test - 9th Edition than students in earlier grades.
Students in countries that permit teacher salaries to be adjusted for outstanding performance score approximately one - quarter of a standard deviation higher on the international math and reading tests, and about 15 percent higher on the science test, than students in countries without performance pay.
Children raised in families with higher incomes score higher on math and reading tests.
On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portion.
Data also show that students in the reduced - size classrooms had higher standardized test scores in reading and mathematics than did students in the control group.»
On average, students in countries with performance - related pay score 24.8 percent of a standard deviation higher on the PISA math test; in reading the effect is 24.3 percent of a standard deviation; and in science it is 15.4 percent (see Figure 1).
Data from 22,000 children involved in this study of the kindergarten class of 1998 — 99 show that, after controlling for family income, children who attended more academically oriented preschools had significantly higher scores in reading, math, and general knowledge when tested in the fall of their kindergarten year than children in preschool settings without academic content.
In 2009 and 2012, Finland saw drops in all three subjects — reading, math, and science — among its high - scoring test - takers — those who reached level 5 or 6 on PISA's six - point scale.
Despite those added challenges, the 400 children at Stanford still learn the basics, consistently scoring higher than district standards on state tests in reading and math — the latter taught exclusively in Japanese or Spanish.
Students who use newspapers tend to score higher on standardized achievement tests — particularly in reading, math, and social studies — than those who don't use them.
Three times as many had a GPA of 3.0 or higher; twice as many scored in the top quarter on math and reading tests.
West's data on Florida includes annual FCAT math and reading test scores as well as two behavioral outcomes: days absent and a measure of whether they dropped out of high school by grade 10.
The students lucky enough to win the lottery and be admitted to a charter school subsequently scored higher on math and reading tests than did those who lost the lottery and remained in district schools.