Sentences with phrase «standardized math»

It matches performance on standardized math tests to later outcomes, like whether students enrolled in or completed college, and the amount of money they were earning at age 25.

At the end of the year, they said we needed to find a new school because I scored too high on standardized math tests.

Achievement effects are estimated using school - average test scores on state standardized math assessments.

The intelligent online tutoring system uses multimedia and animated adventures to prepare middle and high school students for standardized math tests and college - level mathematics.

He took versions of his state's high - stakes standardized math and reading tests for 10th graders, and said he'd make his scores public.

For years, scores on standardized math and reading tests have dominated how schools and states measure student success.

Before the program, Anthony was ranked ninth in standardized math tests and tenth in English exams in a district of ten schools.

Aurelio recaps the details of a questionnaire created in response to the school's low test scores on standardized math exams.

At the root of Martiniello's research is a quest for fairness and equity by questioning the validity of standardized math tests, given their significant implications on students» lives.

In Wednesday's issue of the journal Pediatrics, researchers compared standardized math and spelling test scores for 499 children who were randomly assigned to physically active math and language lessons or regular instructions for two years.

The amount of time students spend doing physical activity in school appears to be linked to higher standardized math scores in D.C. schools, according to a new American University study that examined the success of the city's Healthy Schools Act and found that schools offering more physical activity had significantly better math success.

We used data from the New York City Department of Education, which cover the 1998 — 99 to 2004 — 05 school years and grades 3 through 8, the grades in which students in New York City take standardized math and reading examinations.

academic test scores improved as much as 10 percent on national standardized math and reading tests.

Since 2003, the average standardized math test scores among fourth graders in Newark schools have risen from 45 percent to 79 percent.

ELL students perform better on the state's standardized math assessment test if they attend a public school with at least a minimum threshold number of white students.

On the Massachusetts standardized math test (MCAS) every one of my students passed the test, almost half finished in the «advanced» category, and two earned perfect scores.

Harford County Public Schools students scores on the PARCC standardized math and reading exams dropped last year, as they did across the state, but in most cases still remained above the Maryland average.

Q) How much time will it take for students to complete some of the new Common Core standardized math and English Language Arts tests?

Houston Elementary fits the profile of a struggling school: Just 12 percent of students in third, fourth and fifth grade last year met expectations on the districtwide standardized math test, and 6 percent met expectations in English language arts.

Before 2006, when First People's first came to Wyoming Indian Elementary, less than a quarter of the students rated as proficient or advanced in third grade on Wyoming's statewide standardized math tests.

Exam Elf offers a teacher's dashboard and math resources for preparing for standardized math tests.

It was one of the first states to use the results of standardized math and reading tests to grade every public school on an A to F scale, with rewards for the best - rated and sanctions for the worst.

The amount of time students spend doing physical activity in school appears to be linked to higher standardized math scores in D.C. schools, according to an American University study released in February that examined the effects of the city's law; that study found that schools offering more physical activity had significantly better math success.

Teachers with students who take standardized math and English tests (usually fewer than half of the total number of teachers in a district) are held accountable for getting students to reach this mark.

academic test scores improved as much as 10 percent on national standardized math and reading tests.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine studied eighth grade math students and found gum chewers scored 3 percent better on standardized math tests and achieved better final grades (Wrigley Science Institute, 2009).

If the new lessons can better engage students in school, Hidalgo also expects to see correlated increases in standardized math and reading scores.

Dr. Pope's org Challenge Success, which used more than twenty studies on homework for its papers, found similar results, reporting,» [I] n a recent study comparing the standardized math scores across multiple countries, no positive link was found between student math achievement and the frequency or amount of homework given (Baker & LeTendre, 2005).

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.

Backlash over the rollout of the Common Core learning standards, along with aligned state tests and new teacher evaluations, came to a head last April when more than 20 percent of the state's eligible students refused to take the state standardized math and English language arts exams.

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.

Next spring, New York's students will spend two days on standardized math and English tests instead of three.

Peneston says there's a cost for demanding schools focus so much energy on having elementary school students do well on standardized math and language arts tests.

Regardless, the results are worrying, she said, because children who live in poor neighborhoods are, on average, a year behind academically, according to standardized math, reading and writing assessment tests of the students.

These students also scored significantly better on California state standardized math and English tests.

They don't record which students taking the state's standardized math tests completed them at the end of an online course, for example, and which took them after a face - to - face class.

We tell ourselves a lie of convenience when we support the belief that children who can score well on standardized math and reading exams are being equipped for life.

Considered to be one of the most significant initiatives in American education in decades, CCSI will attempt to set forth standardized math and English curriculums in every participating state, thereby providing clarity about what students are expected to learn and creating common goals across states and districts.

Back when I was a classroom teacher, my principal — to whom I rarely spoke — came by one day to tell me that one of my math students had gotten the highest score in the school on a standardized math test.

A 2011 study by David Figlio and Cassandra Hart of found that Florida's STC program had a small but statistically significant impact on public school performance on standardized math and reading tests.

Central High did not make the Adequate Yearly Progress standard under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and less than 20 percent of its students score «proficient» on state standardized math tests.

The primary educational outcomes for this study were standardized math and reading scores and grade repetition.

[22] At the same time, Dougherty finds that attending a RVTS has no impact (positive or negative) on the standardized math and reading exams that all Massachusetts students take at the end of 10thgrade.

In order to assess basic knowledge and skills, we look at whether the child's performance on standardized math and reading tests meet or exceed the state - defined proficiency level.

The outcome of interest is student academic achievement, as measured by scores on a standardized math and language test first administered in all schools 18 months after the start of the program.

Figure 1 compares the magnitude of the effect of instructional days on standardized math scores to estimates drawn from other high - quality studies of the impact of changing class size, teacher quality, and retaining students in grade.