Nonetheless, in this situation, there is also a need to provide additional instruction for those students
whose math performance is lowest.
Not exact matches
Researchers know that children
whose parents are anxious about
math also tend to struggle with the subject, but a new study that used a simple app to facilitate
math interactions for families significantly improved children's
performance within a matter of months.
And building test - score - based student achievement into teacher evaluations, while (in my view) legitimate for some teachers, has led to crazy arrangements for many teachers
whose performance can not be properly linked to reading and
math scores in grades 3 — 8.
Carr attributed the lack of an increase in national reading scores and a decline of two points in
math since 2013 to declining
performance of the lowest performers --- those
whose scores fall within the bottom 25 percent of students.
Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman,
whose state's
performance on NAEP this year was questioned by this publication after revelations of high exclusion levels (including a 27 percent exclusion rate for eighth - graders in special ed on NAEP's reading exam, and an 18 percent exclusion rate of 14 percent of eighth - grade special ed kids from NAEP's
math exam):
«You have teachers and administrators
whose jobs rise and fall on school
performance as measured on reading and
math tests given for three to four days in the spring,» he said.
, «
Whose performance is really being measured by this formula — mine or the teachers who taught my students
math for three months of the school year?»