Sentences with phrase «reading achievement across»

School - based reward programs that offer students such incentives as cash, free MP3 players, or other gifts appear to produce improved reading achievement across grade levels, preliminary findings from an ongoing research project suggest.

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The intervention, short numerical story problems delivered through an iPad app, significantly increased children's math achievement across the school year compared to a reading (control) group, especially for children whose parents are habitually anxious about math.

Putting the case for Year 1 assessment, its report says: «Early success in reading and number sense is a powerful predictor of later achievement, and is strongly correlated with schooling performance across the curriculum.

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels

The GRC compares academic achievement in math and reading across all grades of student performance on state tests with average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered economic peers of the U.S..

In Phase 2 Validation, the evaluator will a) conduct an experimental test of the cumulative effects (across 2 summers) of the most cost - effective version of READS (CE READS) in as many as 10 school districts, and b) compare achievement growth in the summer and school year for students who received CE READS and students who did not receive READS.

«Reading enables achievement in every dimension of life, and we have an extraordinary opportunity to combine knowledge of how individuals learn with technologies that will put remarkable interventions within reach for students across the country,» Harvard President Drew Faust said.

What's disappointing is that 4th - grade reading results have held steady since 2007 — after a big bump up (across all achievement levels) from 2005 - 2007.

For this reason, I performed a variety of sensitivity tests for math achievement because the reliability of the math test across countries and cultures is usually considered higher than it is for reading or science.

Indeed, the most important (and uncertain) premise of Reading First was that it could catalyze and support meaningful change in the SEAs — could help them build agile expert systems that gave high - quality support to schools and districts — and thereby improve reading achievement among the poor, not just in isolated schools and districts as in the past but across entire Reading First was that it could catalyze and support meaningful change in the SEAs — could help them build agile expert systems that gave high - quality support to schools and districts — and thereby improve reading achievement among the poor, not just in isolated schools and districts as in the past but across entire reading achievement among the poor, not just in isolated schools and districts as in the past but across entire states.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

The 2011 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) measured the reading achievement of 300 000 students in their fourth year of schooling across the participating couReading Literacy Study (PIRLS) measured the reading achievement of 300 000 students in their fourth year of schooling across the participating coureading achievement of 300 000 students in their fourth year of schooling across the participating countries.

Family, Neighborhood, and School Settings Across Seasons: When Do Socioeconomic Context and Racial Composition Matter for the Reading Achievement Growth of Young Children?

Professor Wolf methodically dissects the evaluation conducted by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and notes that the program improved the reading achievement of the treatment group students overall across all subgroups examined.

We find strong evidence that rather than harming achievement in reading and science, double - dosing had positive effects across the board.

Across all age groups, both reading skill and science knowledge were significant predictors of all four science achievement measures.

Student achievement scores were uneven across grades and subjects: strong in grade 3, but weak in grade 4; strong in reading but not in writing.

The purpose of the present study was to examine the instructional and organizational factors that might explain how and why some schools across the country are beating the odds by attaining greater than expected primary - grade reading achievement with populations of students at risk for failure by virtue of poverty.

Using state student achievement data, the RNN conducted a field study of schools across the economic landscape and identified 5 key findings that lead to student reading success.

In their special strategies study, Stringfield et al. (1997) found that reform programs that focused on the primary grades had larger achievement gains in reading than schools that spread their efforts out across the elementary grades or into the secondary grades.

Children in the low groups across the four classrooms showed no significant differences on measures in September, but their reading achievement in May was quite different.

Gains in reading proficiency also were seen across all student groups, though big achievement gaps remained.

Through the support of the program, the school is starting to see gains in student achievement, with scores increasing across all grades in reading and writing over last year.

«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 Related References report multi-year cross-sectional student achievement trajectories showing the ITBS Reading Comprehension and Science achievement across grades 3 - 8.

The project Achievement Trajectory Tool applies a data - driven statistical model to predict the longitudinal achievement growth in reading comprehension and science across grades 3 - 8 of students receiving Science IDEAS in grades 3 - 5 in comparision with students not receiving Science IDEAS (i.e., receiving traditional reading / language arts instead of ScieAchievement Trajectory Tool applies a data - driven statistical model to predict the longitudinal achievement growth in reading comprehension and science across grades 3 - 8 of students receiving Science IDEAS in grades 3 - 5 in comparision with students not receiving Science IDEAS (i.e., receiving traditional reading / language arts instead of Scieachievement growth in reading comprehension and science across grades 3 - 8 of students receiving Science IDEAS in grades 3 - 5 in comparision with students not receiving Science IDEAS (i.e., receiving traditional reading / language arts instead of Science IDEAS).

Authors of the world's largest annual study of the reading habits of K — 12 students — the report for the 2015 — 2016 school year encompassed nearly 9.9 million students in more than 30,000 schools across the U.S. — examined both third - grade and sixth - grade students who started the year in the bottom quarter of reading achievement.

He found that the black - white achievement gaps in reading and math across the country are nearly as large today as they were in 1965.

Other researchers have found that teachers improve their practice at greater rates when they work in schools with better quality collaboration and that joint work on assessments is significantly predictive of achievement gains across math and reading (Ronfeldt et al., 2015).

Recent research suggests that the etiology of reading achievement can differ across environmental contexts.

Although processing speed across its full range has not shown a relationship to achievement, it is possible that subtest profiles with unusually weak or strong processing speed scores would display differential reading test performance.

The debate surrounding homework's usefulness wages on, and depending on the study you come across, you'll read that homework does and does not have a positive effect on student achievement.

Because reading skills are fundamental to achievement in every area, a key focus across the school has been to help students develop a passion for reading.»

Of the 26 programs rated, Reading Recovery achieved strong results, with positive ratings or potentially positive ratings across all four areas studied: alphabetics (phonemic awareness and phonics), fluency, comprehension, and general reading achieReading Recovery achieved strong results, with positive ratings or potentially positive ratings across all four areas studied: alphabetics (phonemic awareness and phonics), fluency, comprehension, and general reading achiereading achievement.

In addition to student achievement outcomes the study revealed differential patterns in favor of Science IDEAS of the evolution of teacher judgments of student reading proficiency across grades 3 - 7.

KIPP also narrowed 65 percent of its ethnic and income achievement gaps across the available comparisons in elementary school math, science and reading

Transfer effects of a reading comprehension strategy on achievement and teacher judgments across grades 3 - 7.

Classroom teachers, principals, and school leaders must read this book; it provides an illuminating model and framework for educators that vividly challenges «us» to re-envision what we think and do about poverty, race, and achievement in classrooms across the U.S..

Establishing clear expectations for student behavior, ensuring consistent application across teachers, and developing methods of maintaining positive student behavior in class may pay off in terms of student achievement in reading.

The TLC is a Network of three teacher study groups (Literary Circle, Book Club Plus Study Group, and the Literacy Circle Study Group) across southeastern Michigan, supported in part by the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement and in part by the Walgreen Teachers in Residence Program at the University of Michigan.

Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.

Language Acquisition in Diverse Classrooms Focusing on Language and Academic Instructional Renewal (FLAIR) Increase cognitive growth and academic achievement in reading for all students, including linguistically diverse students, through an intensive language - across - the - curriculum program.

Based on Regie's work in diverse schools across the United States and Canada, Transforming Our Teaching: Regie Routman in Residence is a groundbreaking video - based series designed to raise and sustain reading and writing achievement for ALL learners.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, comprised of 34 developed or rapidly developing nations, provides data on comparative student achievement across the member nations through its Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, ranking countries by the reading, science, and math skills of their 15 - year - olds.

Figure 5: While academic achievement suffered across the board at Campbell park, the black - white achievement gap perisisted, with only 20 % and 10 % of black students being proficient in reading and math respectively in 2013.

State Superintendent Tony Evers said in a news release that math and reading achievement needs to improve across the state for all students.

Eliminating school librarians from Atlanta schools would negatively affect reading and test scores, and student achievement across our city.

There's cloud - syncing built in if you read books across devices (in a Kobo app on a phone, for instance) and the reader's achievement system is cute, if superfluous.

We can inadvertently be the cause of our dog's pain (read more here), their conformation can make certain acts uncomfortable (I've come across many people who consider it a real achievement to convince a greyhound to sit, despite the fact that it is not a position most greyhounds would ever adopt naturally, as they're simply not the right shape for it), or they could have an underlying health issue.

Research Design: Sources of data in this study consist of student demographic variables and reading achievement for 995 students and classroom observation data using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System collected across 46 classrooms in an urban school district in Wisconsin.