Not exact matches
While no
single test can show everything we need to know about how a student is performing
in school, test
scores along with information about a student's work
in the
classroom give families the information they need to know about a student's progress.
The studies regarding
single - sex
classrooms in elementary schools often boast shockingly positive results: a 2008 Stetson University study
in Florida found that teaching
single - sex math classes
in fourth grade increased proficiency
scores on the FCAT by 27 percent for girls and 30 percent for boys.
And there's the difficulty of drawing the right conclusions about teacher performance from very small numbers of student test
scores, an especially tough challenge
in elementary schools, where teachers typically work with a
single classroom of students every day.