Sentences with phrase «standardized achievement test gains»
Findings demonstrate that a standards - based, inquiry science curriculum can lead to standardized achievement test gains in historically underserved urban students, when the curriculum is highly specified, developed, and aligned with professional development and administrative support.
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A leading test publisher, aiming to refute charges that standardized - test scores are inflated, has found in a new study that elementary - school students registered substantial gains in basic - skills achievement over the past decade.
Maryland's public school students made greater gains on a national standardized test than their peers in nearly every other state, although the achievement gap between white and minority students persists.
The gains even held up when we measured student achievement with externally mandated standardized tests (see Wiliam, Lee, Harrison, & Black, 2004).
By the 4th year, those kids who received the suite of RTL, RFS & SSS make huge gains on our standardized achievement tests.
The E. M. Kauffman funded Philliber Research Associates evaluation of the CDF Freedom Schools program in Kansas City conducted between 2005 - 2007 indicates children who attend CDF Freedom Schools programs score significantly higher on standardized reading achievement tests than children who attend other summer enrichment programs; African American middle schools boys made the greatest gains of all.
(http://www.senatorphilpavlov.com/commentary-how-we-are-reinventing-states-outmoded-education-system/) What Sen. Pavlov fails to mention is that gaining a spot on the state's «achievement gap list» is no measure of any sort of educational or learning issue — its simply an indication that a school's students have not met a predetermined goal, set by the state (not teachers), with respect to standardized test scores in math or reading.