Sentences with phrase «reading test scores»

Their advantage in math and reading test scores in 5th grade is roughly 0.7 of a standard deviation, which amounts to well over two years of academic progress (see Figure 1).

We carefully monitor our students reading test scores for progress, she added, and we emphasize reading skills in staff development.

What explains this disconnect between math and reading test score gains and later - life outcomes?

As a result, your students will learn to love reading, and you'll improve reading test scores at the same time!

Researchers compared state standardized reading test scores for each of two groups, using data from the year prior to the program compared with scores at the end of the program year.

The narrow focus on math and reading may goose math and reading test scores in the short term but at the expense of the longer - term and broader goals of education.

The authors found that children's abilities to construct stories from picture books at 5 to 6 years of age were correlated significantly with standardized reading test scores two years later.

Gordon Dahl of the University of California, San Diego and Lance Lochner of the University of Western Ontario find that EITC income raises combined math and reading test scores by about 6 percent of a standard deviation per $ 1,000 received.

The study found «no significant difference between the samples in reading test scores as a result of chronological age

Coinciding with this period of rising economic school segregation has been an increase in the math and reading test score gap by income.

Featured in The Hechinger Report: With Achieve3000, struggling Quitman Street Renew School sees highest reading test score gains of all 45 Newark elementary and middle schools.

By 2009, the median reading test score of students in their initial 3rd - grade year had improved by more than one - third of a standard deviation since 2001, as had nearly all points on the distribution.

According to the 2013 Connecticut Mastery Tests, only 5.6 % of Hartford's non-English speaking students (categorized as English Language Learners), who took the 4th grade CMT reading test scored at or above goal... 94 % of Hartford's 4th grade ELL students scored below goal on Connecticut's mastery test.

As a result, Cassellius wrote,» we may see what looks like a drop in reading test scores when they are reported this summer.»

This year Leopold Elementary School became the first Madison elementary school to be hit with a second - level sanction under the federal No Child Left Behind law for insufficient reading test scores among black students.

A robust 2006 study, by Kathryn Borman and colleagues, showed that, independent of other factors, racial segregation of black students in Florida was negatively associated with reading test scores, as early as first grade.

Elementary schools had similar improvements in math and reading test scores regardless of which SIG model they implemented.

The initial evaluation of the OSP found that participation increased reading test scores, parents» perceptions of safety, and high school graduation rates.

I don't like to be alarmist, or give too much weight to any one test result, but last week's release of 2016 reading test scores around the world is now the third major proof point that something is awry.

Using Curriculum - Based Measures to Predict Reading Test Scores on the Michigan Educational Assessment Program: Technical Report.

A Johns Hopkins University study found that low - income and wealthy students» reading test scores over summer breaks from first to fifth grade rose by.26 and 52.49 points, respectively.

(His other reading test scores were good.)

Math and reading test scores remain well below city averages, but the school has seen improvement in its attendance rates — with the portion of «chronically absent» students who miss 18 or more days dropping from 36 percent to 24 percent.

For example, poor reading test scores are too often common in poor white schools in rural areas in states like my state of Alabama.

In addition to a graph that correlates reading test scores and median sale prices, the ORA has created two maps.

Patrick's end - of - year Scholastic Expanding Level reading test score was 93 %.

A 2006 World Bank analysis credited initial rise in Poland's PISA reading test scores, in part, to increased hours of classroom instruction.

Founders Dana Kimball - Israelsen and Brent Israelsen launched the group in 1997 when they noticed that schools with low reading test scores often had little parent involvement.

They were the initiators of an ongoing years - long study on how access to Kindles affected reading test scores and attitudes towards literacy, and the results of the first year of the study were published recently.

West's data on Florida includes annual FCAT math and reading test scores as well as two behavioral outcomes: days absent and a measure of whether they dropped out of high school by grade 10.

Leopold this year became Madison's first school to face more severe sanctions for failing to improve reading test scores of black students.

A new study just came out showing that America's public schools have the highest reading test scores in the world, if you only included affluent families.

I then use the improvements of the median reading test score for initial 3rd - grade students on the FCAT since 2001 in order to rescale the state's mean NAEP test score in the spring of the same year.

For example, that same study following 2.5 million students found that an English teacher who raises students» reading test scores by the same amount as a math teacher raises students» math test scores has an impact on long - term life outcomes approximately 1.7 times that of the math teacher.

Third, many schools are developing strategies for goosing math and reading test scores in ways that may not contribute to (and may even undermine) later - life success.

In the spring of the 2015, with some help from Achieve3000, students at the struggling school realized the highest reading test score gains, edging out all 45 elementary and middle schools in Newark.

The report focuses on the positive impact of school - library programs on students» reading test scores at grades 4, 7, and 11.

It's an effort to improve reading test scores among children at Wisconsin schools.

Students in 4th - 6th grade who went to bed an average of 30 - 40 minutes earlier improved in memory, motor speed, attention, and other abilities associated with math and reading test scores.

Bolstered by a three - year school breakfast study conducted by the University of Minnesota which found marked improvements in math and reading test scores, a decline in visits to the school nurse, as well as a 50 percent reduction in discipline referrals, officials this fall are expanding the free breakfast program for all children at 320 of the state's 1,200 elementary schools.

Math and reading test scores are the only clubs they have to beat their opponents in establishing their preferred policies.

Math and reading test scores are the yardstick by which education reform is measured.

Applicants are more likely to be minority, more economically disadvantaged, and lower prior math and reading test scores

Participants have lower prior math and reading test scores, more likely to be minority, more likely to be free - lunch eligible, less likely to be from «A» or «B» schools, less likely to be English - language learners

The research studied the reading test scores of more than 200,000 15 - year - olds from over 8,000 mixed - sex schools around the world.

• After adjusting for prior test scores and demographics, the school a student attends explains 34 percent of the variation in their math test scores and 24 percent of the variation in their reading test scores, but just 2 percent of the variation in their fluid cognitive skills.

The data include 8th - grade math and reading test scores and information on student gender, race / ethnicity, bilingual status, free or reduced price lunch status, and special education status.