Sentences with phrase «standardized reading»

All four books offer reasonably strong evidence that these schools are keeping kids from dropping out, getting them into college, and helping them do well on standardized reading tests.

Schools that fail to make «adequate yearly progress» in improving student performance on standardized reading and math tests for two years in a row are subject to the act's sanctions.

Here's one reason that few have focused on: the nature of standardized reading tests themselves.

The researchers found no difference in standardized reading and writing test scores between blocked and traditionally taught students and reduced performance in mathematics achievement.

The authors found that children's abilities to construct stories from picture books at 5 to 6 years of age were correlated significantly with standardized reading test scores two years later.

By law, states are supposed to gradually increase the percentage of students who pass standardized reading and math tests until 100 % of them do by 2014.

Researchers compared state standardized reading test scores for each of two groups, using data from the year prior to the program compared with scores at the end of the program year.

Using the table below, teachers can decide what further assessment and explicit reading instruction each student needs, based on the student's fluency score and most recent standardized reading comprehension score.

Results indicated statistically significant group differences in standardized reading and mathematics scores, with students with asthma performing worse than students without this diagnosis in both academic areas.

Conversely, few teachers reported using commercial assessments and standardized reading tests for these purposes.

Case studies of four schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, for example (Young, 2006), revealed that many teachers had little use for data from standardized reading assessments.

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.

Repeatedly practicing how to take standardized reading tests may ultimately raise reading scores on standardized tests, but it will it turn kids into lifelong readers?

«Users are now able to search for titles based on standardized reading level information such as Lexile, ATOS and Accelerated Reader scores.

Currently, many existing elementary schools in the South Indianapolis area have low student passage rates for standardized reading, ELA and Mathematics.

In 8th grade the correlation between the high - stakes FCAT and low - stakes standardized reading test was 0.95.

The state education department's resulting rules and guidance did not foreclose school districts from requiring an alternate standardized reading test before offering the portfolio option.

The primary measure was a mandatory standardized reading test known as the English Language Arts (ELA) assessment.

Judging pediatricians on the changes in the height and weight of their young patients as measured at their annual physicals from one year to the next makes just as much sense as using student «growth» on annual standardized reading and math tests to evaluate teachers.

Universal screening involves having all students complete standardized reading assessments so that teachers can review progress toward grade level learning goals.

For years, Mississippi's students of all ages have scored at or near the bottom on national standardized reading and math tests.

Using the MacMillan Standardized Reading Test, Boone and Higgins (1993) determined that reading basals with multimedia - supplemented instruction for students with mild disabilities was as effective as normal instruction and, in some cases, better.

Hirsch found a high correlation between standardized reading test results and the likelihood of economic success, adaptability to retraining, civic integration and even the probability of not being incarcerated.

Proficiency rates on DC's old standardized reading and math tests hovered around 50 %.

High percentages of teachers reported that they used each of the various assessment types; 86 % used performance assessments, 82 % used teacher - designed assessments, 78 % used word attack / word meaning, 74 % used measures of fluency and understanding, 67 % used commercial assessments, and 59 % used standardized reading tests (see Table 2).

However, the new law maintains the detrimental mandate to give standardized reading and math tests to children in every grade, from 3 - 8 and once in high school — empowering states to sanction any school labeled as underperforming.

Standardize Reading Practice Tests that mirror the format of leading standardized assessments are available for many trade books.

Tanz understands that there are legitimate concerns from parents and education leaders about the role of large - scale standardized Read more about Wired: Let Big Data Do Its Job in Education -LSB-...]

It might not be that girls are naturally better at reading, but that they simply do more of it, so they get better at learning vocabulary, for example, which is a big part of standardized reading assessments.

Allowing students to observe real - life examples of making inferences and routinely asking practice questions that require them to make educated guesses using specific examples will help improve their ability to make inferences, which can go a long way to ensuring they pass standardized reading comprehension tests.

But Bridgeport is not alone, Connecticut's recently adopted «education reform» law institutes a new system of standardized reading tests in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade.

The teachers» ratings were based on an analysis of their students» performance on California state standardized reading and math tests.

In another study, observations of peer victimization during class time predicted restricted growth within one academic year on students» state - based standardized reading achievement test scores, after statistical control of their previous reading achievement test scores, ADHD symptom severity, and ability grouping (i.e., tracking) in their classroom [30].

Impairment to language acquisition because of excessive noise during classroom instruction also can lead to deficits in reading skills according to a study by Evans, G. W. and Maxwell, L. First - and second - grade students exposed to chronic noise scored lower on standardized reading tests taken in quiet conditions.

In the final year of the study, voucher students in grades 3 - 9 performed about 15 percent of a standard deviation higher on standardized reading tests, «a modest but meaningful educational difference.»

For admission, they must score at an 8th - grade level on standardized reading and math tests (the Richmond Tech PLC raised that to 9th grade because it had so many applicants), pass an interview, and sign an achievement contract that also commits them to attend a daily meeting called Morning Motivation.

Simply put, a child could be diagnosed with dyslexia if he or she shows an IQ in the «normal» range but falls at or below the 10th percentile on standardized reading tests.

Under the No Child Left Behind Act, schools are ranked by the trend, not the absolute level, of their students» performance on the standardized reading and math tests.

Our results confirm, first, that children from troubled families, as measured by family domestic violence, perform considerably worse on standardized reading and mathematics tests and are much more likely to commit disciplinary infractions and be suspended than other students.

children from troubled families, as measured by family domestic violence, perform considerably worse on standardized reading and mathematics tests and are much more likely to commit disciplinary infractions and be suspended than other students.

The Beaverton School District did just that four years ago when it started Summa Options, a program of advanced curriculum for students who score in the 99 percentile on standardized reading and math tests or a test of cognitive ability.

At least until it's time for students to sit for a standardized reading test.