Sentences with phrase «tenth grade test»

In fact, he found that these students actually scored half a point lower on the 36 - point ACT than students at schools where the tenth grade test scores weren't as strong.

In order to graduate, Indiana high schoolers have to take tenth grade tests in math and English language arts.

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Don't forget about that spelling test on Tuesday — your tenth - grade English teacher will be expecting you to know how to spell all KINDS of words, like «intelligence»!

It isn't surprising to me that when I got to tenth grade, I thought the tests were trying to trick me.

Tenth - grade earth science students who engaged in PBL earned higher scores on an achievement test as compared to students who received traditional instruction (Chang, 2001).

Because Paedae taught advanced math to eleventh and twelfth graders, while the Florida FCAT only tested students through grade eight, 50 percent of her evaluation was based «on the school - wide performance of students taking the tenth - grade FCAT reading test — a test in a different subject administered... to different students in an earlier grade» (p. 3).

Tenth - grade earth science students who received PBL earned higher scores on an achievement test than students who received traditional instruction.

The College Board's Pre-SAT test is typically taken in tenth grade.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

Using test scores, grades, and teacher recommendations, students are assessed and placed into either a math or English academic academy; so you can have tenth - and eleventh - grade students in the same class.

[T] he summer loss equaled about one month on a grade - level equivalent scale, or one tenth of a standard deviation relative to spring test scores.

For example, your seventh grade student scored the same as a tenth grader taking that seventh grade test.

Tenth - grade scores on the Ohio Graduation Tests rose by double - digits in reading, math, writing and social students, and went up 9 percent in science.

• In two award - winning schools (Hudson and Nauset Regional), the percentage of tenth grades «missing» from the test - taking rolls has increased steadily from 1998 MCAS administration to 2000 MCAS administration.

The test was hardly taxing — the English - language component of the test addressed state content standards through tenth grade and the math part of the exam covered state standards in only grades six and seven and Algebra I.

According to the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) assessment administered in spring of 2006, 63 % of Uinta's tested groups in grades third through tenth grade students were achieving at or above the national mean in mathematics.

Then it was discovered that the ninth - grade tests included geometry, which most of the schools didn't teach until the tenth grade.

When she had these same students in eighth grade the next year, where they mostly worked on high - school level material, all of them passed the tenth grade Regents test and fully one - third had perfect scores.

In Ms. Abbott's case, for example, her basket of evidence might have included the tenth grade Regents test, perhaps with a pre-test she had designed to evaluate student needs at the beginning of the year and growth by the end of the year.

The English — language component of the test addressed state content standards through tenth grade, and the math part of the exam covered state standards in only grades six and seven and Algebra I. Worse, the legislators chose to give diplomas retroactively, going back to 2006, when the test was first initiated, to students who had passed their coursework but failed the tes

Education officials in Massachusetts deny any plan to scrap the test, but this week the state senate approved an amendment affirming the current policy requiring students to pass the tenth - grade MCAS to graduate.

How do we know that those students who tested in our tenth grade this year would not have done worse than they would have had they not attended our school?

In addition, the legislation created the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), a high - stakes standardized test first administered in 1998 to fourth -, eighth -, and tenth - grade students.