Sentences with phrase «sixth grade math scores»

Relative to students who attended comparison schools, sixth grade math scores increased 0.484 σ -LRB-.097) in one year.

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The test scores of students are taken from fifth - and sixth - grade results in the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), in math and English language arts.

Students who scored in the top quarter of the sixth - grade math exam averaged anywhere from 19 to 26 on the high school ACT math test; the variations correlated with the effectiveness scores of their high school math teachers.

And more good news: the most recent sixth - grade proficiency scores surpassed AYP targets» for language and eighth graders met AYP language targets, missing AYP in math by one point.

For the past three years, I have worked as a sixth - and seventh - grade math teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y. I have had two value - added scores published on the New York Times SchoolBook website which received the scores from the New York City Department of Education through a Freedom of Information Act request.

If their state standards had moved some portion of what used to be fourth - grade math to the fifth or sixth grade, or replaced it with something else entirely, their state's NAEP scores would likely be lower.

(The Sun Sentinel) Marty West found math and reading scores for many Florida students in traditional middle schools dropped from fifth to sixth grade and continued to plummet as middle school proceeded.

Martin West, a Harvard education professor, found math and reading scores for many Florida students in traditional middle schools dropped from fifth to sixth grade and continued to plummet as middle school proceeded.

Former University of Tennessee researcher William Sanders found students who scored at about the same level on state math tests in third grade had score differences of as much as 50 percentage points on sixth grade tests after having less qualified teachers.

Its middle - schoolers — 88 percent of whom qualify for subsidized meals — made their strongest showing in sixth - grade math last year, with 94 percent scoring proficient, compared with the state's average of 77 percent.

In 2012, just over 3 % of sixth - grade students at South Bronx Preparatory were scoring at or above proficiency on state math tests.

While living in Nashville, Mr. Lindsey taught sixth grade science at Liberty Collegiate Academy (where his students had the highest state science test scores in all of Nashville that year), and, most recently, Mr. Lindsey taught third grade literacy and math at Inglewood Elementary in east Nashville.

In sixth grade, just nine percent of the «class had scored on grade level in math.

Fifth grade math scores exceeded the network average, but sixth grade scores were below the average.20 For more information on socioemotional growth, review the Achievement First's Greenfield Schools Year 1 Pilot.21