Sentences with phrase «student reading proficiency»

During this time, she led literacy coaches and school leaders towards significantly improved outcomes in student reading proficiency.

In addition to student achievement outcomes the study revealed differential patterns in favor of Science IDEAS of the evolution of teacher judgments of student reading proficiency across grades 3 - 7.

Any number of causes might explain the dramatic slide of U.S. students in the international comparisons, but I will focus on two related factors: the mismatch between the demands of content - area texts and student reading proficiencies, and the limited instructional support available in grades 5 — 12.

Not exact matches

She cites a 1997 University of California, Los Angeles, study that found, among 25,000 students, those who had spent time involved in a musical pursuit tested higher on SATs and reading proficiency exams than those with no instruction in music.

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Context is also lacking in his September 3 column, where he noted, «The federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal - for North Carolina, 68 percent of students reading on grade level this year - and requires all schools to make that number.»

The 2011 8th - grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that only 18 percent of Hispanic students and 14 percent of black students read at or above proficiency levels.

One of the big mistakes of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was enshrining its aspirational target of 100 percent student proficiency in reading and math by 2014 in the accountability system itself.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Schools would be held to account for getting greater proportions of their students — and greater proportions of key subgroups — to «proficiency» in reading and math.

For example, the report tells us that 70 percent of 8th - grade students at K12 - operated schools met proficiency standards in reading, as compared to 77 percent in all public schools in the same states.

Achievement in reading and math; growth in reading and math; four - and five - year graduation rates plus percentage of students still enrolled in high school; English - language proficiency

Those rates could rise in the coming years, since 16 states and the District of Columbia have enacted policies requiring that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency when they first take state tests in third grade be held back.

That's in large part owing to a provocative body of research showing that students who don't read with proficiency by the end of 3rd grade are far more likely to experience poor academic outcomes, including leaving school without a diploma.

Student performance measures include average student achievement on reading and math exams, along with median proficiency and the percentage of students achieving profiStudent performance measures include average student achievement on reading and math exams, along with median proficiency and the percentage of students achieving profistudent achievement on reading and math exams, along with median proficiency and the percentage of students achieving proficiency.

We used statistical techniques similar to the one we employed to examine changes in average scores to assess the effect of the bonus program on the percentage of students achieving proficiency on math and reading exams.

Retaining students based on reading proficiency can produce large improvements in academic performance when compared to grade - level peers.

Students in these programs are not able to advance unless they have proficiency in reading and math, as well as in problem solving and so - called softer skills — the personal qualities, habits, attitudes and social skills that make someone a good employee and compatible in the workplace.

Results from Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 show that more than one in four 15 - year - old students in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries did not attain a baseline level of proficiency in at least one of the three core subjects PISA assesses: Reading, Mathematics and Science.

Chicago — Mastery learning has proved its worth as a method of teaching reading, especially to students whose proficiency is below average, but educators who use the sometimes - controversial method should not regard it as a «quick fix» for poor basic - skills test scores.

NCLB requires annual testing of students in reading and mathematics in grades 3 through 8 (and at least once in grades 10 through 12) and that states rate schools, both as a whole and for key subgroups, with regard to whether they are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward their state's proficiency goals.

While the No Child Left Behind Act has a detailed formula for bringing students to proficiency on state reading and mathematics tests by the 2013 - 14 school year, it's much less precise on states» goals for English - language learners.

The report, «Achieving State and National Literacy Goals, a Long Uphill Road,» prepared by the Santa Monica, Calif. - based RAND Corp. for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, suggests that inadequate progress is being made to bring more students to proficiency in reading by the 2014 deadline set by the No Child Left Behind Act.

Its proficiency rate does not differ significantly (in a statistical sense) from that for all students in Canada, Japan, and New Zealand, but white students trail in reading by a significant margin all students in Shanghai, Korea, Finland, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Reading proficiency: 31.223 percent of U.S. students are proficient on the NAEP, which corresponds to 550.4 on PISA.

In no country in the world does a majority of the students reach the NAEP proficiency bar set in 8th - grade reading.

Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

Reading is essential for all forms of learning and education, but many students complete elementary school with inadequate reading ability, and there has been little progress in the last few decades in helping these students gain necessary reading profiReading is essential for all forms of learning and education, but many students complete elementary school with inadequate reading ability, and there has been little progress in the last few decades in helping these students gain necessary reading profireading ability, and there has been little progress in the last few decades in helping these students gain necessary reading profireading proficiency.

To see whether states are setting proficiency bars in such a way that they are «lowballing expectations» and have «lowered the bar» for students in 4th - and 8th - grade reading and math, Education Next has used information from the recently released 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to evaluate empirically the proficiency standards each state has established.

The authors use data from state tests and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to estimate changes to each state's proficiency standards in reading and math in grades 4 and 8 by identifying the difference between the percentages of students the state identifies as proficient and the percentages of students identified as proficient by NAEP, an internationally benchmarked proficiency standard.

Meanwhile, just one in four Newark high school students passed state proficiency tests in reading and math.

After three years of relatively flat and sometimes declining test scores, K12, Inc.'s full - time students appear to have increased their proficiency levels in both reading and math, even as K12, Inc. serves a population with 62 percent of its student eligible for free - and - reduced price lunch, compared to 49 percent nationally.

Results reported thus far have been mixed: an analysis of 2013 cohort data by Wayne State University professor Thomas C. Pedroni found that the majority of EAA students failed to demonstrate progress toward proficiency on the state's assessments in reading and math, and some students» performance (approximately one - third) declined.

Among its 8th - grade students, only 12 percent reached proficiency in reading and 7 percent in math.

In 1994, 9 -, 13 -, and 17 - year - old students who reported reading for fun at least once a week had higher average reading proficiency scores than students who reported never or hardly ever reading for fun.

Since 2011, 45 states have raised their standards for student proficiency in reading and math, with the greatest gains occurring between 2013 and 2015.

For the past decade, school reform has been primarily about «closing achievement gaps» by boosting math and reading proficiency and graduation rates, among black, Latino, and poor students.

In fourth - grade reading, eighth - grade reading, and eighth - grade math, about one out of every four students reaches proficiency in the average large city.

Because of different math backgrounds, learning strengths, reading skills, and English language proficiency, students have varying levels of achievable challenge in different math topics, so flexible groupings should be designed so students can move easily between them, depending on their mastery of specific math topics.

As students develop dual - language proficiency around third grade, they also receive reading, writing, and social studies instruction in their second language.

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.

In Hiebert's studies, TExT had a tremendous benefit not only for first - graders struggling to learn how to read, but also for those students with adequate reading proficiency.

NEPC notes, for example, that 70 percent of 8th - grade students at K12 schools met proficiency standards in reading, as compared to 77 percent in all public schools in the same states in which K12 operates.

There are limits on what the public should be asked to support financially; schools that don't help students reach basic proficiency in math and reading, in particular, don't deserve public subsidies.

January 22, 2016 — The Common Core State Standards (CCSS), adopted by 43 states and the District of Columbia in an effort to establish a set of common educational objectives and standards for assessing student proficiency in reading and math, are accomplishing one of their key goals.

The first scores from Colorado's new assessments, released that day, showed that Title I schools in Pueblo had performed so poorly that only a small fraction of their students could demonstrate basic reading and mathematics proficiency.

Peterson, Barrows, and Gift used data from state tests and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to estimate changes to each state's proficiency standards in reading and math in grades 4 and 8 by identifying the difference between the percentages of students the state identifies as proficient and the percentages of students identified as proficient by NAEP, an internationally - benchmarked proficiency standard.

The lowest performing of the ten brought 75 percent of its students to proficiency or above on last year's state reading test.

Most English language learners and students with disabilities are exempt, and other low - performing students are permitted to demonstrate reading proficiency through a portfolio of work.

This is evident in the federal law's requirement that each state's accountability system generate a report card for each school and district indicating the proportion of students meeting proficiency standards on state tests of math and reading.