Sentences with phrase «reported math test scores»

More than 90 % of New York fourth - grade ELL students who took proficiency tests were in schools that reported math test scores for ELL students.

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Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign reported in 2013 that on average, students who eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests; when combined, these factors translate into a student being twenty percent more likely to graduate high school.

Students» self - reported emotions were measured by questionnaires, and their achievement was assessed by year - end grades and scores on a math achievement test.

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.

But all previous evaluations of the effects of private schools or of school voucher programs reported test - score results for both reading and math, or a composite measure of the two, even if the researchers thought that one or the other was a better measure of school performance.

NCLB required states to test ELLs and report their subgroup scores, increasing pressure on schools to move students to English fluency and raise reading and math scores.

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

Each state's score (averaged across the tests in math and reading in the 4th and 8th grades) is reported in months of learning, compared to an overall average adjusted score of zero.

Results from a new report on test scores show the nation's students making modest gains in math and science in recent years, while failing to significantly increase their reading and writing performance.

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.

Using the state test data and the full randomized sample, the evaluators report negative impacts for reading, math, and science scores at the end of third grade for children assigned to TVPK.

On the Nation's Report Card's main tests, 4th and 8th grade reading and math scored gains in 49 of 50 states.

By converting the Timss scores to the scores used in the key stage 2 maths tests, known as Sats, the report estimates that to match the performance of pupils in the top five countries — Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan — 90 per cent of children in England would need to reach the expected standard in the English Sats maths test, with an average scaled score of 107.

Psychologists Catherine Good, now at Baruch College, Joshua Aronson of New York University and Michael Inzlicht, now at the University of Toronto, reported in 2003 that a growth mind - set workshop raised the math and English achievement test scores of seventh graders.

A separate, more recent evaluation reported initial decreases in reading and math test scores.

Even though more women and girls are getting college degrees and scoring in the top ranks on national math tests than was the case in the 1970s, their academic gains have not come at the expense of boys, says a report by the American Association of University Women.

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.

Moreover, ACT Inc., which began measuring college readiness as the American College Testing Program in the 1950s, reports that among the college aspirants who took its admission exams last year, only 21 percent of the graduating seniors attained scores high enough in all four subjects — English, reading, math, and science — to indicate that they wouldn't need to take a no - credit remedial course when they entered college.

In addition, the new report includes a broader range of student outcomes, examining not only state test results in reading and math, but also test scores in science and social studies; results on a nationally normed assessment that includes measures of higher - order thinking; and behaviors reported by students and parents.

URBAN NAEP COVERAGE EdWeek: NAEP: Urban School Districts Improving Faster Than the Nation Baltimore Sun: Baltimore students score near bottom in reading, math on key national assessment Cleveland Plain Dealer: Vast poverty differences create unfair comparisons on Nation's Report Card Miami Herald: Miami and Florida students outperform peers on national test

As The Times reported in a front - page story Sunday, some of the school's most promising teachers lost jobs, and many were replaced by more veteran teachers who were less effective at raising students» test scores in math and English.

It was the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) that required schools, for the first time, to report truancy data to the federal government, alongside annual test scores in reading and math, as well as high school graduation rates.

The paper, published in Education Finance and Policy, details the achievement impacts of 41 KIPP charter middle schools nationwide and reports consistently positive and statistically significant test - score effects in reading, math, science, and social studies.

The report will also feature a graphic that will show how a student's score compares with the average score on the «practice» Smarter Balanced tests in math and English language arts that students in California and other consortium states took last year.

The researchers found students» reported self - management skills and growth mindset were the best predictors of students» later reading and math performance; a higher sense of self - efficacy was associated with higher test scores for white and Asian students, but not for black or Hispanic students.

«Research has consistently found that attending a charter school in Boston has large positive effects on math and reading test scores,» Cohodes reported.

The No Child law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2002, requires testing in reading and math from grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, and reporting of scores for groups of students including racial and ethnic minorities.

States will still be required to test students annually in math and reading in grades three through eight and once in high school and to publicly report the scores according to race, income, ethnicity, disability and whether students are English - language learners.

NASHVILLE — Offering middle - school math teachers bonuses up to $ 15,000 did not produce gains in student test scores, Vanderbilt University researchers reported Tuesday in what they said was the first scientifically rigorous test of merit pay.

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As reported in the Wall Street Journal, a rigorous long - term study found that TEP produced major achievement impacts, including test score gains equal to an additional 1.6 years of school in math, with significant gains in science and English.

For example, because the state is adopting a new standardized testing system, it didn't report English and math scores for 2013 - 14, and may not have figures from its first round of testing until after the 2015 - 16 LCAPs are due.

The task force's report essentially comes to the same conclusion, recommending that students» scores on math and reading tests in the third grade should not have consequences for teachers and should be used only «on an advisory basis» until the start of the 2019 - 20 school year.

When we include all schools with enough tested ELs (10 or more) to have their scores reported by CDE, we find that in 740 out of 3,464 schools (21 %), no 4th - grade ELs who met the state ELA standard; in 748 of these schools, no ELs met the math standard.

Critics point to a report released last week showing how school districts in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties ignore objective data like test scores and grades, and they often place black and Latino ninth - graders in math classes below their level.

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.

First, the math achievement scores of white and black students decline if they attend schools that report ELL test scores, shrinking the gap.

California has again scored among the worst in the U.S. for reading and math skills, but local and state educators say elements of the test known as the Nation's Report Card call into question the accuracy of the ranking.

Because student performance on the state ELA and math tests is used to calculate scores on the Teacher Data Reports, the tests are high - stakes for teachers; and because New York City uses a similar statistical strategy to rank schools, they are high - stakes for schools as well.

While the existing SAT has more than its share of problems, experts are reporting that by aligning the NEW SAT to the so - called Common Core standards, students will need to have successfully completed Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II, as well as Pre-Calculus, Trigonometry or Probability and Statistics in order to get a co-called «college ready» score on the math portion of the new SAT standardized test.

This summer, New York State will release the new iteration of the Teacher Data Reports, ranking English and math teachers in grades four through eight all across the state on their contributions to their students» scores on the state tests.

States would still have to test every student annually in math and reading in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school and report scores by race, income, disabilities and English learners.

In every state where K12, Inc. operated virtual schools and public information was readily available (AZ, CO, GA, NV, OH, PA, SC, TX, WA), virtual students» math and reading standardized test scores were significantly behind the state average, according to the report.

They enjoy math more, their confidence is higher, their standardized test scores are better, their acceptance into accelerated math programs increased, and graduates of this system report great success as they move into the next years of math.

The Washington Post reports that for math and reading teachers in grades four through eight, half their evaluation depends on students» standardized test scores.

WILL's March 1 report, Apples to Apples: The definitive look at school test scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin, authored by WILL research director Will Flanders who has a PhD in political science, compared, for a single school year (2015 - 16), the average levels of student proficiency in math and English in K - 8 schools and the averaged ACT college entrance exam scores for schools» high school juniors.

The school reports that it earned higher scores on the 2013 Transitional Colorado Assessment Program standardized tests for all subjects — math, science, reading and writing — than Denver Public Schools and the state as a whole.

An unprecedented drop in scores on a tough and highly regarded test known as the Nation's Report Card could create more trouble for the controversial standards known as Common Core, a set of English and math guidelines on the books in 44 states and the District of Columbia.

The National School Boards Association's (NSBA) Center for Public Education (CPE) in its analysis of the report found that while overall scores remained flat, more students scored high enough to reach the ACT college - ready benchmarks in each of the test's four subject areas - English, reading, math, and science.

Student test scores released this week on the math portion of the «nation's report card» will make more urgent the rethinking of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act.