Sentences with phrase «standardized reading and math»

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

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.

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.

In recent years, however, the federal law known as No Child Left Behind has put pressure on schools to raise scores on the standardized reading and math tests given to students starting around age 8.

To be labeled gifted in Louisiana, by and large, students must score at least two standard deviations above the mean on a standardized reading and math test chosen by the district or on an intelligence test (two standard deviations above the mean translates to a score of 130 on the IQ test and is near the 98th percentile).

It identifies the 20 U.S. school districts with the smallest white - black and white - Hispanic achievement gaps in 2009 to 2012, based on standardized reading and math tests in elementary and middle schools.

As educators, we realize that the quality of a child's education can not be measured solely by scores on standardized reading and math tests, which by their nature do not assess students» conceptual thinking, their ability to do research and to evaluate and defend ideas, their skill at written and oral expression, or their success in collaborative or teamwork settings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Students would continue taking standardized state tests in reading and math annually in grades three to eight and at least once in high school.

Schools in the city's Renewal program improved more on state standardized tests in reading and math than the rest of the city's schools, but that doesn't mean they're all safe from the chopping block, the mayor said.

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.

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.

Standardized tools were used for measuring temperament, attention span, behavioral problems, and reading / math achievement.

Scores on standardized tests of academic areas such as reading, spelling, and math were analyzed.

The researchers estimate that childhood lead levels at or above 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood accounted for as many as 25 percent of the children in the study failing reading and math standardized tests.

Greater focus on raising student performance on math and reading standardized tests may also lead schools to cut field trips.

A study conducted by Fordham University researchers found that reading and math scores on standardized tests are higher at IS 218 than at comparable middle schools.

Our findings from Florida suggest that the use of standardized testing policies to end social promotion can help low - performing students make modest improvements in reading and substantial improvements in math.

The results indicate that a one - hour delay in start time increases standardized test scores on both math and reading tests by roughly 3 percentile points.

Even so, 81 percent of BASIS DC students were proficient in reading and 77 percent were proficient in math on the D.C. standardized test results released in July 2013, less than a year after the school opened.

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.

Students who flunked the reading and math standardized tests administered in March will have another chance to pass the tests in July after attending summer school.

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As schools narrow their focus on improving performance on math and reading standardized tests, they have greater difficulty justifying taking students out of the classroom for experiences that are not related to improving those test scores.

The first state standardized test scores are in, and the 11th graders did no better than those at other comprehensive, non-selective city high schools: about one - quarter of the students met proficiency standards in reading and a mere 7 percent in math.

Scope: Compares the percentage of students passing or receiving high marks on standardized state tests in reading, math, writing, and science in various grade levels.

Those systems lean heavily on the results of standardized, statewide reading and 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.

But those rating sites are based primarily on student proficiency rates on annual standardized tests in reading and math.

The results of this analysis show that, after only one year's time, attending a private - school improved student performance on standardized tests in math and reading by between 5.4 and 7.7 percentile points.

While many people blame standardized testing for narrowing the elementary school curriculum to reading and math, the real culprit is «a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills — strategies like «finding the main idea — rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.»

Students who use newspapers tend to score higher on standardized achievement tests — particularly in reading, math, and social studies — than those who don't use them.

Standardized, multiple - choice reading and math tests are reliable, familiar, affordable, and easy to administer.

Bilingual students also attain higher levels of achievement on standardized tests in reading, writing, social studies, and math and report higher levels of self - confidence (Tochon, 2009).

In addition to Indiana's statewide standardized tests (ISTEP), the mayor's charter schools must administer nationally normed reading and math tests, for which the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) is used.

Over-reliance on standardized math and reading tests has the propensity to narrow the curriculum.

The new legislation maintains the NCLB mandate that standardized tests in math and reading be given annually in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, and, in an effort to make other subjects as important, science tests three times between grades 3 and 12.

Washington — STANDARDIZED tests are commonly blamed for narrowing the school curriculum to reading and math.

Higher Achievement fostered improvements in both math and reading comprehension, as measured by standardized tests.

Even in terms of math and reading, there is not much interest in interventions that do not show up on standardized state assessments.

We estimate racial / ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 million standardized math and reading tests administered to public school students from 2009 - 2013.

Less than one - third are reading and writing at grade level, and barely more than one - third are performing at grade level in math, according to results on California's standardized tests.

A study by the Center on Education Policy found that the time district schools spent on subjects besides math and reading declined considerably after Congress enacted the No Child Left Behind Act (NLCB), which mandated that states require district schools to administer the state standardized math and reading tests in grades three through eight and report the results.

A new study finds that delaying middle - school start times by one hour, from roughly 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., would increase standardized math and reading scores by 2 to 3 percentile points.

When reform - friendly commenters and cheerleading journalists write about the NOLA transformation, it's become de rigueur to offer a standard qualifier — words to the effect of, «We still have a long way to go, but...» In this formulation, poor overall reading and math proficiency based on standardized test scores is a mere speed bump before long and laudatory discussions of the remarkable growth demonstrated by the city's charter schools and students since Katrina.