Sentences with phrase «reading proficiency scores»

Perhaps the most intriguing of ORA's graphics is the one that plots waitlist numbers against reading proficiency scores on DC's standardized tests.

For instance, Amistad Academy in New Haven reported a significant jump in math and reading proficiency scores on statewide tests, with some students performing «almost as well» as wealthier students in Greenwich, Connecticut.

In Salt Lake, 3rd grade reading proficiency scores rose 15.5 % from 2013 - 2014.

In 1994, 9 -, 13 -, and 17 - year - old students who reported reading for fun at least once a week had higher average reading proficiency scores than students who reported never or hardly ever reading for fun.

Not exact matches

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Mean scale scores on state reading and math tests, median growth percentage, four - and seven - year graduation rates, progress in achieving English - language proficiency

We used statistical techniques similar to the one we employed to examine changes in average scores to assess the effect of the bonus program on the percentage of students achieving proficiency on math and reading exams.

Reading and math test scores, English language proficiency, growth, four and seven year graduation rates

Chicago — Mastery learning has proved its worth as a method of teaching reading, especially to students whose proficiency is below average, but educators who use the sometimes - controversial method should not regard it as a «quick fix» for poor basic - skills test scores.

After three years of relatively flat and sometimes declining test scores, K12, Inc.'s full - time students appear to have increased their proficiency levels in both reading and math, even as K12, Inc. serves a population with 62 percent of its student eligible for free - and - reduced price lunch, compared to 49 percent nationally.

The first state standardized test scores are in, and the 11th graders did no better than those at other comprehensive, non-selective city high schools: about one - quarter of the students met proficiency standards in reading and a mere 7 percent in math.

Everything I know about the slow growing, cumulative nature of language proficiency suggests it is all but impossible to test prep your way to a high score on a third to eighth grade reading test, especially the more challenging Common Core tests.

The first scores from Colorado's new assessments, released that day, showed that Title I schools in Pueblo had performed so poorly that only a small fraction of their students could demonstrate basic reading and mathematics proficiency.

Although the increases were most significant in the lower grades, the number of seventh - grade students with limited English proficiency who scored above the 50th percentile also increased — by 2 percent in language, reading, and spelling and by 3 percent in math.

At Blackstone Valley Prep, analysis of the suburban and urban students» scores on the 2013 state exams measuring proficiency in reading and math offers 80 different snapshots, by grade, subject and family income, with Blackstone students faring better than their peers on nearly all.

Academic Boot Camps Get Students in Test Shape Concentrated reading and test - taking instruction in small groups — known as boot camps — is one of the strategies a California school district uses to help elementary and middle - school students on the cusp of proficiency improve their reading and test scores.

Third grade reading proficiency is up 15 percent at all community schools, based on end - of - year tests and Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills or DIBELS scores.

The law requires that every state test every student from grades three to eight in reading and mathematics, then disaggregate each school's scores by race, limited English proficiency, disability and low - income status.

And while test scores in the district have improved since IMPACT began, a recent study by the National Urban League found that Washington produces the nation's largest reading - proficiency gaps between black, Hispanic and white fourth - graders.

Students in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 9th grades could be held back if they failed to score at the district benchmark in math and reading on nationally normed tests - the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) or the Test of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP) for 9th graders.

While reading and math proficiency scores are low at Garfield, Garfield was recognized last year for its improvements in academic achievement.

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.

These include students» grade level, Limited English Proficiency status and eligibility for subsidized school meals, their teachers» years of experience in North Carolina public schools, class size, school size, schools» racial and socioeconomic makeup, and schools» average math and reading scores on statewide tests.

The author who analyzed the PISA scores felt there wasn't necessarily a direct cause - and - effect relationship between reading and science — that reading comprehension did not directly cause science proficiency, nor did science proficiency cause reading comprehension.

The results show in our Reading scores with 86 % of our students achieving proficiency.

Their study showed charter school students in Arizona and California score 7 percent to 8 percent higher in reading and math proficiency compared to the nearest public school.

When student test scores on the Ohio Academic Assessment indicated that only 33 % of Jones sixth graders were at the minimum state acceptance rates, middle childhood education students at Lourdes College stepped in to volunteer an hour each week to work with the sixth grade students to improve their reading proficiency.

Recent state testing reveals that voucher students score lower in reading and math proficiency than public school students.

International test scores put our math and reading proficiency around thirtieth in the world, which points to low future growth.

The results were impressive: hundreds of students moved to proficiency in both math and reading in schools led by NISL EDP graduates and overall achievement scores grew at faster rates in those schools than in schools led by non-NISL graduates.

Fourth grade reading and math proficiency as well as eighth grade math proficiency have both garnered lower or the same scores since 2011.

Education Equality Index Scores are calculated using proficiency data from annual state assessments taken by students in math and reading across all grades tested.

n The report highlights data such as fourth grade reading scores, eighth grade math results and Kentucky's college - and career - readiness results showing a 30 percentage - point gap between students based on English language proficiency, a 25 percentage - point gap between African American and white students, a 20 percentage - point gap based on identified learning differences and also family income, and a 10 percentage - point gap between Hispanic students and their white peers.

On Kentucky's previous state tests, tied to its old standards, over 70 percent of elementary school students scored at a level of «proficiency» or better in both reading and math.

The district improved or maintained proficiency scores on 19 of 24 tests this year, but dropped one point in reading.

Standardized test scores showed a schoolwide increase in reading proficiency.

And while test scores in the district have improved since IMPACT began, a recent study by the National Urban League found that Washington, D.C. produces the nation's largest reading - proficiency gaps between black, Hispanic and white fourth - graders.

Scores increased only marginally for eighth graders and not at all for fourth graders, continuing a sluggish six - year trend of slowing achievement growth since passage of the law, which requires schools to bring 100 percent of students to reading and math proficiency by 2014.

Every year, urban school districts across the country release test scores showing dismal student proficiency in math and reading, especially for students in poverty.

All of these are based on test scores (PSSA, PASA, SAT, reading proficiency in grade 3.)

However, it is very difficult for me to find anything positive about the Houston results, particularly the reading proficiency levels for the fourth - and eighth - grade students in the Houston Independent School District, which were scored at 18 % and 17 %, respectively.

Most important of all, TeenBiz is scientifically proven to accelerate reading comprehension, fluency, writing proficiency, vocabulary development and high - stakes test scores.

Its reading scores at goal, the level higher than proficiency, in 5th grade were better than Achievement First, despite the fact that it serves a much needier population.

The researchers found the percent of students scoring either proficient or with advanced proficiency in reading went up at schools on a four - day schedule and were higher than their peers in school districts who remained on the five - day schedule.

With two years of significant growth in reading proficiency, students with disabilities are making the lion's share of improvements in students scoring at the advanced level.

Only 28 percent of SAUSD tested students scored at basic levels of reading proficiency — and just 19 percent in mathematics.

Our proficiency scores in reading dipped the first year.

There is a major problem with the latest ranking of proficiency targets and cut scores on state tests between 2009 and 20011 released this week by Education Next: That the study's authors, the otherwise - astute Paul Peterson and Peter Kaplan, have attempted to link the proficiency targets to the implementation of Common Core reading and math standards.

Data for English and language arts reflect the 3rd and 5th graders» scores on the CRT examination in reading combined with 4th graders» scores on the state Writing Proficiency exam; math data reflect 3rd and 5th graders» combined scores on the CRT in math.

This includes the ever - woeful South Carolina, whose reading and math proficiency targets declined from an A to a D +, according to Education Next «s analysis; the Palmetto State claimed that 54.9 percent of fourth - graders scored «exemplary» or its version of proficient and advanced levels in 2011, even though NAEP shows that only 36 percent of fourth - graders were performing that well.