Sentences with phrase «overall average reading score»

When the headlines report that the overall average reading score of 8th students in 2015 declined in comparison to the previous assessment in 2013, there was a chorus of educators who most likely responded:

While Virginia students again ranked among the nation's highest achievers, the 2009 NAEP results for the commonwealth show that overall achievement among Virginia fourth graders is similar to achievement in 2002, while the overall average reading score for eighth graders has declined.

Not exact matches

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.

Each state's score (averaged across the tests in math and reading in the 4th and 8th grades) is reported in months of learning, compared to an overall average adjusted score of zero.

Students whose teachers receive an overall rating one standard deviation above the mean are predicted to score roughly 0.06 standard deviations higher in reading than students whose teacher received an average rating.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about 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.

We emphasize the overall test scores, which represent the average of the math and reading components.

The state's overall academic performance lags national averages, with its students scoring in the bottom quartile in both reading and math on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress results.

For instance, between the early 1970s and 2008, reading scores for 9 - year - olds rose by 14 points for white students, 34 points for African American students, and 25 points for Latino students — more in every case than the average gain of 12 points for 9 - year - olds overall.

Overall, students with high reading engagement scored significantly above the international average on the combined reading literacy scale, regardless of their family background.

CHEYENNE — Overall, Wyoming's fourth and eighth grade students in 2017 continue to outperform national average test scores in reading and mathematics on the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card or NAEP.

Overall, average reading and mathematics scores in Wyoming for both grades four and eight were statistically unchanged from NAEP results reported in 2015.

In 2010 - 2011, Tiffany Park's average scores for English learners surpassed the overall average scores for the state on both the reading and mathematics assessments.

The VIP families had a 3.6 - point (95 % CI, 1.5 to 5.6 points) increase on average in overall StimQ score, increased interactions in all 4 StimQ domains (provision of toys, reading activities, teaching, and parental verbal responsivity), and increased reading activities (time spent and instances per day) as measured by the reading diary.

Overall, the latest stress index revealed the highest reading since August — the average county's score for November was 10.3, up from 9.9 in October.