Sentences with phrase «state math test»

Asian students have generally performed better than white students on state math tests in the city, and about the same on English tests.

Last year, those five schools average 21 percentage points below their home district on state math tests and 10 points below in reading.

Under those goals, 78 percent of white students and 89 percent of Asian students are expected pass state math tests in 2017, while 57 percent of black students, 65 percent of Hispanic students and 49 percent of special - education students are expected to pass.

VDOE Mathematics Coordinator Tina Mazzacane discusses the recently announced delay of the introduction of state math tests based on the 2016 Mathematics Standards of Learning until spring 2019.

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.

In our study, the teachers with larger gains on low - cost state math tests also had students with larger gains on the Balanced Assessment in Mathematics, a more - expensive - to - score test designed to measure students» conceptual understanding of mathematics.

Under a waiver from NCLB approved earlier this month, the goal is for 50 percent of students to score proficient on the new state reading test and 65 percent to score proficient on the new state math test by 2017.

Despite an A in algebra and excellent state math test scores, she had to fight to get into the ninth - grade geometry course that would keep her on track to take Advanced Placement calculus during her senior year.

Making precisely this point, Cole, Kemple, and Segeritz note: «When we looked within groups of similarly performing students, we found that those who were exposed to more on - grade - level skills experienced higher rates of growth on the New York State math test.»

Despite successful implementation of this professional development based on what many experts believed to be the best practice for improving math instruction, scores on the NWEA and state math tests showed small declines (and the NWEA decline was not statistically significant while the state test decline was).

In my first year of teaching, 96 percent of my students passed the toughest state math test in New York's history, and two - thirds achieved the highest possible score.

As anti-SBAC advocates in Washington State are reporting, «By comparison, only 12,380 students from the Graduating Class of 2015 failed to pass the previous state math test.»

A Newsday survey conducted Friday on the last day of state math testing in grades three through eight found that 52.8 percent of eligible students in Nassau and Suffolk counties refused to take the assessment.

New York City girls in grades 3 to 8 outscored boys on state math tests for the second straight year, with 35.2 percent passing this year, compared to 33.4 percent of the boys passing.

And we'd have to know that the NWEA and state math test scores are valid predictors of later life outcomes.

Our turnaround efforts have nearly tripled the number of students passing the New York State math test and more than doubled those passing the English language arts exam.

Although Shelby County has one of the lowest percentages of students who are economically disadvantaged in the state, only about half of its students tested proficient or advanced on state math tests in 2011, according to state numbers.

Next week, students in grades three through eight statewide are slated to take the state math test during portions of three days, Wednesday through Friday.

This year, 88 percent of SUNY - authorized charter schools outperformed their districts on the state math tests, and 83 percent outperformed their districts on the state reading tests.

At PS134, the numbers were only slightly better, with 36 % of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders scoring «proficient» or above on the state math tests, and only 14 % of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders scoring «proficient» or above on the state ELA tests.

At PS 137, only 11 % of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders scored «proficient» or above on the state math tests, whereas the citywide average was 38 %.

However, the data from the schools are a strong interim measure of success: 97 and 100 percent of the 3rd graders at Canada's two elementary schools performed at grade level on the state math test in 2008.

For example, David Sims has shown that after a 2001 Wisconsin law required schools to open after Labor Day, districts forced to delay their start dates saw their students» achievement on the state math test fall relative to districts that were unaffected by the law.

An investigation determined Atherton Elementary School Principal James Berry and Assistant Principal Doretha Alexander had altered answers on last summer's state math tests, said Chief Deputy Superintendent Robert Moseley of...

Before Mr. G. arrived, 33 percent of white 5th graders reached the advanced level on the state math test; in 2009, twice as many did.

Success Academy kids didn't merely pass the state math test, they destroyed it.

In 3rd grade 94 percent of white children and 79 percent of blacks passed the state math test.

The seventh graders at the Brooke Charter schools in East Boston and Roslindale fare as well on a state math test as students at the prestigious Boston Latin school, the country's oldest public school and a school with an admissions exam.

Next week my seventh graders will sit for the state math test.

Although they teach mostly poor kids, 95 percent pass the state math test, and 84 percent pass the English test.

On the state math test, 52 percent of white elementary - school students compared to 18 percent of African American students score at the top performance level.

In 2005, more than 60 percent of 11th graders failed the state math test.

In a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers Atila Abdulkadiroglu of Duke University, Parag Pathak of MIT, and Christopher Walters of the University of California at Berkeley found that students who received a voucher through the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) during the 2012 - 13 school year were 50 percent more likely to receive a failing score on the state math test than students who applied for but did not receive a voucher.

Some districts required students to take the state math test as well.

A third - grade class entered the computer lab where I was assisting with the administration of the state math test, but it quickly became clear that my help was not required.

For example, more than 20 percent of the teachers in the bottom quartile (lowest 25 percent) on the state math test are in the top two quartiles on the alternative assessment.

In Illinois, charter school students were 21 % more proficient on their state math tests and 16 % more proficient on their state reading tests than their regular public school peers.

She found that students at charter schools performed 5 % better on state reading tests than their traditional public school peers and that charter school students performed 3 % better on state math tests than similar students at public schools.

When compared with students in neighboring schools, Hoxby found charter - school students actually outperformed their public - school peers by a national average of 5 percent in state reading tests and an average of 3 percent in state math tests.

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Unfortunately, CPS still has a promotion policy that requires students to «pass» both the state reading and the state math test in order to graduate from eighth grade or be promoted from third of sixth grade without having to go to summer school.

In his mind, last year's midyear departures of all four sixth - through eighth - grade math and science teachers was no excuse for the middle grades» poor performance on the state math test, but at least it offered an explanation for what were in some cases dramatic declines.

For the 2011 - 12 school year, the performance of San Jose's «Rocketeers,» as Rocketship refers to its students, on state math tests wasn't that dissimilar to that of students in California's high - income districts.

Well only 15 % of students in the school passed the state math test.

But according to the Harvard researchers, the New York state exams have become even easier in comparison with the national exams: students who received the minimum score to pass the state math tests in 2007 were in the 36th percentile of all students nationally, but in 2009 they had dropped to the 19th percentile.

Only 15 percent of fourth graders scored proficient on the state math test.