Sentences with phrase «reading test scores in»

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.

They had the highest 2010 - 11 reading test scores in their district for grades 3 - 5.

Earlier program evaluation reports for Louisiana showed that voucher students made significantly lower gains on math and reading test scores in the first year (27 percentile points and 17 percentile points lower, respectively) than students who applied for vouchers but were not awarded them through the lottery.

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.

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).

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.

Not exact matches

Mean test scores in reading (Programme for International Student Assessment) Mean test scores in science (Programme for International Student Assessment) % of those aged 25 - 64 who have attained tertiary level education Education expense, % of GDP

Almost half of Canadian students (45 %) who wrote the test in 2000 achieved top scores in reading, but in 2009 only 40 % made similar grades.

People on the more successful teams in Woolley's experiment scored above average on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test.

In your article around Baltimore's technology gap («Computer - based tests a challenge for low - income students, some Baltimore teachers say,» April 22), we read that students who took the PARCC scored lower when they took the test on a computer than when they used paper and pencil.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

Between 2007 and 2009, Fryer distributed a total of $ 9.4 million in cash incentives to 27,000 students in Chicago, Dallas, and New York City, incentivizing book reading in Dallas, test scores in New York, and course grades in Chicago.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

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.

- The Department of Education, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eating choices.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

When kids eat breakfast they demonstrate broader vocabularies, improved memory and faster speed on cognitive tests, and they score higher in both reading and math.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

I don't believe in fast food, and was intrigued when I read a study that suggested that the more often kids eat the junk, the lower they score on standardized tests.

Though the student bodies in her schools have an overall poverty rate of 77 percent, they regularly register among the highest - scoring schools on standardized math and reading tests.

Seizing on a sharp drop in reading and math scores after students took their first Common Core tests, the teachers fed fears that kids would somehow suffer because their grades had fallen, when the opposite was true.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

Boys who were mainly breastfed for at least six months scored 9 per cent higher in mathematics and writing tests, 7 per cent higher in spelling, and 6 per cent higher in reading, compared with boys fed with formula milk or breastfed for shorter periods.

Children who performed poorly in agility, speed and manual dexterity tests and had poor overall motor performance in the first grade had lower reading and arithmetic test scores in grades 1 - 3 than children with better performance in motor tests.

Especially children in the lowest motor performance third had poorer reading and arithmetic test scores than children in the other thirds.

A group of teenagers from Shanghai, China, have posted the top scores on the latest version of an international test of practical knowledge in reading, mathematics, and science.

In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.

The new research builds on two previous studies that found the two programs benefitted children in early elementary school, boosting third - grade reading and math - test scores and reducing third - grade special education placements.

The dataset included measures of students» academic competence, specifically test scores in math and reading, as well as psychosocial outcomes.

In a new longitudinal study, first - generation immigrant children who took part in a community - based intervention had higher scores on math and reading tests than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the prograIn a new longitudinal study, first - generation immigrant children who took part in a community - based intervention had higher scores on math and reading tests than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the prograin a community - based intervention had higher scores on math and reading tests than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the prograin the program.

I have been reading your book and watching your videos related to iodine and thyroid health since I had a blood test back in January that had a TSH result of 16.8, I got retested in March and the score dropped to 6.8, and then I was just retested in May, and it dropped to 3.8, however my doctor also tested for antibodies (two numbers) that came back high.

The failure was exemplified by high drop - out rates, dismal national test scores in math, reading, and other subjects, as well as widening achievement gaps.

The largest gains for the test — the Kentucky Instructional Results System, or KIRIS — came in reading and mathematics, with fewer students scoring at the «novice,» or lowest, level and more students scoring at the «proficient» and «distinguished» levels.

Ladner found that the reading and math test scores of 3rd graders were higher in schools that offered all - day kindergarten or pre-K, but by 5th grade the differences had disappeared.

On the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, 46 percent of the city's students scored «below basic» in mathematics, and 38 percent were below that low threshold in reading (compared with 33 and 28 percent for the nation, respectively).

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

I investigate by analyzing national changes in PISA reading scores from 2000, when the test was first given, to 2102.

Sources might include reading and math achievement test scores, IQ scores, benchmark and state test results, and grade level progress in the curriculum.

Illinois educators have been scratching their heads over four years of mysterious declines in students» scores on the state's 10 - year - old reading tests.

The study found that OMA improved diverse students» test scores in reading, language arts, and math, as well as improving teachers» effectiveness.

If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

Catherine Snow: Incorporating Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine Snow.

Drawing from math test scores from PISA 2009 in which the United States performed lower than the OECD average, the report argues that while demand for STEM labor is predicted to increase over the next few decades, a shortage of STEM labor in the United States, along with inadequate performance in science, math, and reading compared to other countries, endangers U.S. future competitiveness and innovation.

It has become a mantra in education that No Child Left Behind, with its pressure to raise test scores, has reduced classroom time devoted to the arts (and science, social studies, and everything else besides reading and math).

The relationships are somewhat weaker for test scores in reading.

Consistent with other research on school effects, we find that the school a student attends can explain a substantial share of the overall variation in test scores: that single factor explains 34 percent of the variation in math scores and 24 percent of the variation for reading.

This is nearly half the size of the black - white test - score gap in reading.

Both groups of schools saw an increase in the average math and reading scores during the first two years of the bonus program; treatment - group schools, however, did not experience a statistically significant improvement in average test scores relative to the schools in the control group.

It'll boost their reading scores; prepare them to succeed in middle school, high school, and beyond, where U.S. test scores (and other metrics) crash; and equalize opportunity in American society in ways that no anti-poverty or compensatory education program can possibly do.