Sentences with phrase «math scores on standardized tests»

Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, serving a low - income urban minority community, launched a concerted and successful campaign to raise its students» low math scores on standardized tests.

A number of studies have shown that in addition to benefitting from a more desegregated schooling experience, magnet school students tend to outperform students in regular public and private schools in both reading and math scores on standardized tests (Frankenberg & Seigel - Hawley, 2008).

Students participating in arts - integrated lessons show increased language and math scores on standardized tests and improved engagement, motivation, and sense of community (Smithrim and Upitis, 2005).

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.

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Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Eating breakfast improves academic performance, health, and behavior; that means better performance on standardized tests, improved concentration and memory, better math scores, better attendance and fewer tardies, as well as fewer behavioral referrals to the front office.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine studied eighth grade math students and found gum chewers scored 3 percent better on standardized math tests and achieved better final grades (Wrigley Science Institute, 2009).

Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign reported in 2013 that on average, students who eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests; when combined, these factors translate into a student being twenty percent more likely to graduate high school.

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.

These students also scored significantly better on California state standardized math and English tests.

Scores on standardized tests of academic areas such as reading, spelling, and math were analyzed.

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

For admission, they must score at an 8th - grade level on standardized reading and math tests (the Richmond Tech PLC raised that to 9th grade because it had so many applicants), pass an interview, and sign an achievement contract that also commits them to attend a daily meeting called Morning Motivation.

And it seems to be working: In spring 2007, Enota students scored higher in math on the Criterion - Referenced Competency Test (CRCT, Georgia's annual standardized exam) than any other school in the district.

Back when I was a classroom teacher, my principal — to whom I rarely spoke — came by one day to tell me that one of my math students had gotten the highest score in the school on a standardized math test.

The results indicate that a one - hour delay in start time increases standardized test scores on both math and reading tests by roughly 3 percentile points.

Central High did not make the Adequate Yearly Progress standard under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and less than 20 percent of its students score «proficient» on state standardized math tests.

As schools narrow their focus on improving performance on math and reading standardized tests, they have greater difficulty justifying taking students out of the classroom for experiences that are not related to improving those test scores.

Cambridge, MA — A new study finds that 8th grade students in the U.S. score higher on standardized tests in math and science when their teachers allocate greater amounts of class time to lecture - style presentations than to group problem - solving activities.

The Singapore texts and methods were so effective in College Gardens that the scores of students there on the math computation portion of the standardized Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) rose from the 50th and 60th percentiles to the low 90s in the first 4 years they were used.

The Beaverton School District did just that four years ago when it started Summa Options, a program of advanced curriculum for students who score in the 99 percentile on standardized reading and math tests or a test of cognitive ability.

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.

These patterns are consistent with the findings of a 1997 study by Dominic Brewer and Dan Goldhaber, which found that more in - class problem solving for American 10th - grade students in math is related to lower test scores on a standardized test.

Getting into a charter school doubled the likelihood of enrolling in Advanced Placement classes (the effects are much bigger for math and science than for English) and also doubled the chances that a student will score high enough on standardized tests to be eligible for state - financed college scholarships.

In one year, he helped generate a 40 % drop in the number of students scoring below proficiency on a standardized math test by doubling the time all kids spent in math class and creating new, more accessible curricula that included using photography to teach calculation skills.

But by the end of the first year, their scores on standardized tests showed the most improvement in English among district middle schools and exceptional growth in math, according to a Times analysis.

First - year scores on the new standardized tests aligned to the Common Core standards showed that 34 percent of California's students met achievement targets in math, and 44 percent met achievement targets in English language arts.

Achievement effects are estimated using school - average test scores on state standardized math assessments.

The technocratic approach to accountability requires that all schools are judged according to uniform metrics, therefore the technocrats rely heavily (indeed, almost exclusively) on standardized test scores, particularly in math and language arts.

When reform - friendly commenters and cheerleading journalists write about the NOLA transformation, it's become de rigueur to offer a standard qualifier — words to the effect of, «We still have a long way to go, but...» In this formulation, poor overall reading and math proficiency based on standardized test scores is a mere speed bump before long and laudatory discussions of the remarkable growth demonstrated by the city's charter schools and students since Katrina.

As educators, we realize that the quality of a child's education can not be measured solely by scores on standardized reading and math tests, which by their nature do not assess students» conceptual thinking, their ability to do research and to evaluate and defend ideas, their skill at written and oral expression, or their success in collaborative or teamwork settings.

These schools had a few things in common: Scores on standardized tests for reading and math were far below the city averages.

A 2012 study found that middle school students who started class an hour later than usual saw their standardized test scores increase over 2 percentile points in math on average.

academic test scores improved as much as 10 percent on national standardized math and reading tests.

This is important because the research found a link between professional community and higher student scores on standardized math tests.25 In short, the researchers say, «When principals and teachers share leadership, teachers» working relationships with one another are stronger and student achievement is higher.

A 2011 study of the effects of teacher turnover on the performance over five years of more than 600,000 fourth - and fifth - graders in New York City found that students who experienced higher teacher turnover scored lower in math and English on standardized tests — and this was «particularly strong in schools with more low - performing and black students.»

The academy is a K - 8 school where fewer than half the students scored proficient or above on standardized math and reading tests in 2014 - 2015, the most recent year for which state data are available.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and the State Board of Education are using multiple cues to send a uniform message: Parents shouldn't compare the new results with scores on past state standardized tests; this year's English language arts and math tests are, they say, more difficult, and are based on a different set of academic standards.

Students entering the fifth grade here are often several years behind in both subjects, but last year, 100 percent of seventh graders scored at a level of proficient or advanced on state standardized math tests.

Based on scores in nationally standardized tests (fourth grade reading and math and eighth grade reading and math), greater union membership of educators tends to have a positive impact on student test scores while larger class sizes tend to have a negative effect.

It is particularly known for its bare - bones curricular focus on standardized test scores in reading and math, its use of computer - based «learning labs» that cut down costs, and its promotion of the Rocketship brand — including a daily pep rally where students chant that they are «Rocketship Rocketeers.»

Aurelio recaps the details of a questionnaire created in response to the school's low test scores on standardized math exams.

The problem with most current systems is they measure growth by using standardized test scores in a few academic subjects, usually math and reading, which are not a very accurate or comprehensive way to check on overall student progress.

To account for the limitations of the tests, Louisiana allows an exception if students score between one and a half and two standard deviations above the mean on three separate tests: the IQ test and the standardized math and English exams.

The law freed states to expand the ways they hold schools responsible for improving student success by adding at least one «nonacademic» indicator to an accountability system primarily based on standardized tests scores in reading, math and science.

To be labeled gifted in Louisiana, by and large, students must score at least two standard deviations above the mean on a standardized reading and math test chosen by the district or on an intelligence test (two standard deviations above the mean translates to a score of 130 on the IQ test and is near the 98th percentile).

An art teacher in New York City explained in this post how he was evaluated on math standardized test scores and saw his evaluation rating drop from «effective» to «developing.»

California test scores dip slightly but L.A. Unified holds steady California students scored slightly lower in math and English on standardized tests this year, the first dip since 2004, in what education officials Thursday blamed in part on brutal budget cuts over the last several years.

However, in Pierce's view, student scores on standardized tests, particularly math tests, are a «litmus test» of the school's overall quality.