Sentences with phrase «reading and math assessment»

Built on a growth - oriented learning progression model, Star 360 gives teachers access to a wealth of reading and math assessment data that can chart each student's cumulative growth onto education standards at dozens of touch points throughout the year.

Powered by the OAASIS (Online Adaptive Assessment System for Individual Students) platform, Let's Go Learn's reading and math assessment solutions adapt to students as they respond to each question, getting harder or easier as needed to complete the diagnosis.

The 10 percent of schools with the highest absolute performance on their state's reading and math assessment tests automatically passed Step 1.

Schools with reading and math assessment test performance in the bottom 10 percent of the state's results automatically failed Step 1.

Moreover, DCPS students show impressive gains over the last decade, not only on district tests but also on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading and math assessments.

In some of the main takeaways from this study, Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, notes that students who do well in PISA's reading and math assessments also tend to be strong performers in CPS.

The chiefs are standing behind the key accountability elements of NCLB: the annual administration of statewide reading and math assessments in grades 3 — 8; the disaggregation of results; the annual determinations of school and district performance; and the identification of and intervention in persistently low - performing schools.

That study, and a follow - up report published two years later, found that in Detroit, about half to three - fifths of charter schools outperformed demographically similar district schools on reading and math assessments.

«[Prior to that] there was very little testing or assessment done, apart from NAPLAN, and there was no consistent whole - school use, so we started with [reading and maths assessments].»

Yet in a 2010 survey, 70 % of high - school social - studies teachers reported that civics has been marginalized by the focus on reading and math assessments.

The free trial includes free reading and math assessments.

During the last four years of her tenure, special education student proficiency on state reading and math assessments increased between 13 and 34 points at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

At Shallowater Intermediate School, «we use volunteers for everything from making copies and cutting out letters and shapes to monitoring classrooms so that teachers can give reading and math assessments to individual students,» said Jack Noles.

After implementing higher standards and improved testing, NAEP found Tennessee made the largest gains in the country for reading and math assessments.

For example, although it retains NCLB's requirement that all public schools conduct mandatory annual reading and math assessments for students in grades 3 - 8, ESSA gives states much greater abilities to establish their own interpretation of how good is good enough, and which schools should be called out as deficient and required to improve.

Closer to home, Myranda Marsh, executive director of Jordan Middle School in Northridge, uses not only the CSTs but commercially produced reading and math assessments to rate the teachers at her charter campus.

While the number of charter schools across the nation has risen dramatically, data indicate that just one in five charter schools outperform public schools in reading and math assessments, according to Stanford University's Center for Research on Educational Outcomes (CREDO).

Twenty - three former state teachers of the year and finalists from 12 states and DC participated on two different review panels for fifth grade reading and math assessments.

The Harkin - Enzi bill continues NCLB's requirements for states to annually administer reading and math assessments in grades 3 — 8 and at least once in grades 10 — 12.

In spring, the interim reading and math assessments will be administered for grades K - 2.

For example, they will acknowledge that it takes years to learn academic English and, in the next breath, bluster over the «achievement gaps» of English learners with graduation rates and national reading and math assessments.

Specifically, the Student Progress Rating looks at how much progress individual students have made on reading and math assessments during the past year or more, how this performance aligns with expected progress based on a student growth model established by the state Department of Education, and how this school's growth data compares to other schools in the state.

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Regardless, the results are worrying, she said, because children who live in poor neighborhoods are, on average, a year behind academically, according to standardized math, reading and writing assessment tests of the students.

Nonetheless, NCLB offered some positive changes that the new ESSA maintains, including academic standards, annual assessments of reading and math achievement, and report cards on schools that students, parents and the public can use to gauge results.

In a seminar with some graduate students, I mentioned my conviction that reading and math scores (even on terrific assessments) only capture maybe 30 to 35 % of what I want students to learn in the course of K - 12 schooling.

The new assessments, offered mostly online, will replace the current state tests given to millions of students each year in reading and math.

He was very clear that he still favors annual statewide assessments in reading and math (3 — 8 and high school).

Its STAR Assessments for reading, maths and early learning have been developed for the new national curriculum.

Using more recent data, a report by the Center on Education Policy concludes that reading and math achievement as measured by state assessments has increased in most states since 2002 and that there have been smaller but similar patterns in NAEP scores.

Of the 43,996 3rd graders in 2002 for whom we have valid test scores on both FCAT math and reading assessments, 60 percent were actually retained.

Michaelson estimates that the process of administering the test to a class, hand - grading each one, analyzing the class results, and discussing them with him takes each teacher anywhere from three hours for the reading assessment in the early part of the year to seven hours for math near the end of the year.

For our investigation, we used individual test - score information on the Florida state assessments in math and reading that are available for as many as 500,000 Florida public - school student observations in grades four through eight for the eight years 2002 to 2009.

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

The topics range from early grade reading and assessment, to improving the school staffroom and targeting big ideas in maths.

Every state, for both reading and math (with the exception of Massachusetts for math), deems more students «proficient» on its own assessments than NAEP does.

The state's educators were divided into three groups based on the availability of student - performance measures; these include state tests, external and internal assessments in subjects outside of math / reading, and «growth goals» based on professional standards and position responsibilities.

Specifically, I pointed out that gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress under Rhee's tenure were much larger than average gains for the other ten urban school districts participating in the assessment in 8th grade math and in 4th grade reading and math.

These new systems depend primarily on two types of measurements: student test score gains on statewide assessments in math and reading in grades 4 - 8 that can be uniquely associated with individual teachers; and systematic classroom observations of teachers by school leaders and central staff.

Viewed as a group, schools managed by our CMOs achieve rates of proficiency on state assessments in reading and math that average about 9 percentage points higher than those of schools in their local districts (see Figure 2).

Results reported thus far have been mixed: an analysis of 2013 cohort data by Wayne State University professor Thomas C. Pedroni found that the majority of EAA students failed to demonstrate progress toward proficiency on the state's assessments in reading and math, and some students» performance (approximately one - third) declined.

They might have to treat fitness as seriously as the No Child Left Behind Act treats reading and math, requiring students to pass assessment tests and teachers to be «highly qualified.»

We find a positive correlation between a principal's assessment of how effective a teacher is at raising student achievement and that teacher's success in doing so as measured by the value - added approach: 0.32 for reading and 0.36 for math.

In a randomized experiment in more than 500 schools within 59 districts for the reading portion of the project, 57 districts for the math portion, and seven states, approximately half of the participating districts were randomly offered quarterly benchmark student assessments and received extensive training on interpreting and using the data to guide reform.

«Positive test results, on both state assessments and the NAEP, show that urban schools are making progress and improving reading and math scores.»

After much analysis and deliberation, the board settled on cut scores on NAEP's twelfth - grade assessments that indicated that students were truly prepared — 163 for math (on a three - hundred - point scale) and 302 for reading (on a five - hundred - point point scale).

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When the 2013 test results came out last year, NAGB reported the results against these benchmarks for the first time, finding that 39 percent of students in the twelfth - grade assessment sample met the preparedness standard for math and 38 percent did so for reading.

The council's Beating the Odds VI report, a city - by - city analysis of student performance, recently revealed that urban students» scores on state assessments in reading and math as well as on the more rigorous federal test — the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- are rising, with urban students making the most gains in mathematics.

For example, when New York administered new, tougher assessments in 2013, the percentage of students deemed «proficient» was virtually cut in half, to 31 percent from 55 percent in reading and to 31 percent from 65 percent in math.

Our findings come from assessments of performance in math, science, and reading of representative samples in particular political jurisdictions of students who at the time of testing were in 4th or 8th grade or were roughly ages 9 10 or 14 15.