Sentences with phrase «in reading achievement»

There were no differences in math test scores among students whose parents had low math anxiety, and no differences in reading achievement for parents with different levels of math anxiety.

Children in the experimental classrooms gained about two months in reading achievement over those in the control group.

Several comprehensive school reform strategies have significantly improved reading performance at scale, but more effective models are necessary to offer educators tools capable of significantly reducing gaps in reading achievement.

The reason for creating this program is the district's shift toward prevention over remediation to address a decline in reading achievement.

According to an AP article published yesterday afternoon, boys trail girls in reading achievement as much as 10 percentage points in some states.

Even so, variation in our summary measure of fluid cognitive ability can explain as much as 16 percent of the total variation in reading achievement.

Low - income students lose more than two months in reading achievement during the summer, while high - income students, on average, see reading gains during the summer.

While we've seen gains in math achievement, we have seen only modest improvements in reading achievement in grade four, and minimal, if any, in grades eight or twelve.

One influential 2009 paper found improvements in fourth - and eighth - grade math scores, but no evidence of a boost in reading achievement.

Only 38 % of 12th - grade students score at or above the proficient level in reading achievement.

Low - income students also lose two or more months of skills in reading achievement.

They found that the amount of time students spent in independent reading was the best predictor of reading achievement and also the best predictor of the amount of gain in reading achievement made by students between second and fifth grade.

NCES describes the increase in reading achievement among Virginia fourth graders since 2009 — when 38 percent achieved proficient or advanced scores — as statistically significant.

Her doctoral dissertation, «The Social Dimensions of an Individual Act: Situating Urban Adolescent Students» Reading Growth and Reading Motivation in School Culture,» draws on various methodologies to examine the sociocultural factors that influenced unusually positive growth in reading achievement at an urban secondary school.

«On average, summer vacation creates a three - month gap in reading achievement between students from low - and middle - income families... even small differences in summer learning can accumulate across the elementary years, resulting in a large achievement gap by the time students enter high school.»

The rescaling assumes that test - score improvements on the FCAT for cohorts in their initial year as 3rd graders are a good proxy for gains in reading achievement made by Florida's students in the next elementary grade.

Francois» doctoral thesis draws on various methodologies to examine the sociocultural factors that influenced unusually positive growth in reading achievement at an urban secondary school.

Washburn found little difference in reading achievement among the groups.

, «Stephen Krashen found that the single greatest factor in reading achievement (even above socio - economics) was reading volume — how much reading people do.»

Still, the Education Northwest evaluation team gained valuable information from the study, including the lesson that it is possible to make a statistically significant difference in the reading achievement of struggling readers in a single year.

However, in terms of the compounding influence of being in a single - sex school over time, there appears to be no value - add in numeracy achievement and even a decline in reading achievement over time in single - sex schools compared to coeducational schools.»

Comparison of monozygotic and dizygotic twins, differentiating genetic similarities of 100 % and 50 %, provided an estimate of genetic variance in reading achievement.

Each summer most youth lose about two months» worth of math skills, while low - income students also lose morethan two months in reading achievement despite the fact that their middle - class peers make slight gains over the summer break.

• Kindergarten and first grade students are given an informal assessment every four weeks in reading achievement in order to modify and individualize instruction.

(Although TFA corps members» effect on students» reading scores is not as great, the payoff to experience is also considerably lower in reading achievement.)

Of the 50 countries participating in this cycle of PIRLS, 48, including Australia, recorded significant differences in reading achievement favouring girls.

PIRLS recognises the important role of student attitudes in reading achievement by collecting responses to two attitude scales — the Students Like Reading scale (a measure of participation and enjoyment of reading), and the Students» Confidence in Reading (a measure of their self - rated ability in reading).

Four recent non-experimental studies of choice programs also tended to report positive effects in reading achievement, with some qualifications.

Students in TFA and control classrooms experienced the same growth rate in reading achievement — an increase equivalent to one percentile» [from the 14th to the 15th percentile].

Vocabulary plays a critical role in reading achievement.

«Would you be more likely or less likely to support a school operating referendum if you knew that some of the money would be used to improve instruction for students who were behind in reading achievement?»

Emphasizing outcomes in reading achievement, Hoffman (1991) summarized the research on effective schools from the 1970s and early 1980s (e.g., Venezky & Winfield, 1979; Weber, 1971; Wilder, 1977).

An October 1997 study by Designs for Change identified schools which had improved the most in reading achievement since 1990.

Figure 7 illustrates the average changes in reading achievement and in low - income enrollment for school districts in Chicago, suburban Chicagoland, and central and southern Illinois during the period 2001 - 2016.

95 % of libraries offer summer reading programs to forestall the «summer slide» in reading achievement experienced when learning takes a holiday between school terms;

Quick and targeted assessments of discrete skills that indicate whether students are making adequate progress in reading achievement

In reading, by contrast, assignment to a Level II or Level III teacher was associated with a large and statistically significant increase in reading achievement, while estimates of the effects of having a teacher from both of the other two groups remained positive but statistically insignificant.

«Importantly, the narrowing gap in reading achievement as students progress by year level suggests that the value - add over time that is experienced in coeducational schools is not being realised in single - sex schools,» Dix writes.

Connecticut — whose eighth graders have the largest - in - the - nation gap in reading achievement between English learners and their peers — promised to address this requirement and are in the process of developing a path forward.

Drawing on a study by Stanford education professor Sean Reardon, Ladd says that the gap in reading achievement between students from families in the lowest and highest income deciles is larger for those born in 2001 than for those born in the early 1940s.

A separate study of the ECLS - K data, also by Peterson and Llaudet, similarly showed that private school students gained significantly more in reading achievement than demographically similar public school students in schools with similar student populations.

Students are tested in reading, but empirical research frequently finds less teacher - driven variation in reading achievement than in math, and ultimately this is the case for the present analysis as well.

The study found that students in classrooms using the LDC gained, on average, 2.2 months in reading achievement compared with similar students who did not use the tool.

«With regard to the efficacy of having students engage in independent silent reading with minimal guidance or feedback, the Panel was unable to find a positive relationship between programs and instruction that encourage large amounts of independent reading and improvements in reading achievement (p. 12).»

Conducting meta - analysis of over 50 reading research studies, Stephen Krashen found that the single greatest factor in reading achievement (even above socio - economics) was reading volume — how much reading people do.