Sentences with phrase «whose reading scores»

The same children whose reading scores improved also displayed changes in their brain anatomy.

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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.

Students whose teachers receive an overall rating one standard deviation above the mean are predicted to score roughly 0.06 standard deviations higher in reading than students whose teacher received an average rating.

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.

Student math achievement was 0.09 standard deviations higher for teachers whose overall evaluation score was 1 standard deviation higher (the estimate for reading was 0.08).

Again using the more reliable within - cohort comparisons, Jacobsen and his colleagues found that in both math and reading a black - white gap was virtually always present, even for students whose scores were similar just one or two years earlier.

Students whose middle schools started one hour later when they were in 8th grade continue to score 2 percentile points higher in both math and reading when tested in grade 10.

Results from 8th grade reading and writing exams in New York state have been delayed because of a scoring problem by the same testing company whose errors in 1999 mistakenly sent thousands of New York City students to summer school.

Students whose reading levels scores are classified as far below basic, below basic, and basic have first priority.

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.

According to the report, students in grades 4 and 8 whose teacher held a master's degree scored higher on NAEP reading than students who were taught by teachers with no more than a bachelor's degree.

There were no differences in math test scores among students whose parents had low math anxiety, and no differences in reading achievement for parents with different levels of math anxiety.

This includes the ever - woeful South Carolina, whose reading and math proficiency targets declined from an A to a D +, according to Education Next «s analysis; the Palmetto State claimed that 54.9 percent of fourth - graders scored «exemplary» or its version of proficient and advanced levels in 2011, even though NAEP shows that only 36 percent of fourth - graders were performing that well.

Mississippi ranks near the bottom among all states in a number of markers including children ages 1 through 5 whose families read to them more than 3 days a week, fourth - and eighth - grade reading and math levels, on - time high - school graduation and average composite ACT scores.

Students whose reading teachers scored higher on RAND's measure of instructional quality outperformed students with lower - scoring teachers.

State accountability systems that emphasize minimum proficiency and teacher evaluation systems that focus monomaniacally on improving reading and math scores have the effect of marginalizing those students whose families have taken care to read to them and do math problems with them — and who look to schools for more.

In follow - up surveys from the earliest cohorts of the program, principals reported that nearly 9 in 10 iTeachAZ graduates scored «effective» or «highly effective» on their evaluation and that the achievement scores of graduates were significantly higher in both reading and math than those of students whose teachers graduated from other programs.60

It is easy to see why this option is so acceptable to lenders, whose fears when reading low credit scores on loan applications is that their investment will be lost.

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After controlling for demographic characteristics and propensity scores resulting from pre-enrollment factors, on average, at the beginning of kindergarten, children whose kindergarten enrollment was delayed had the highest scores in reading and mathematics, followed by children who entered kindergarten on time.

And those have been followed - up by further research finding that that ninth - grade teachers who are particularly good in helping student acquire non-cognitive skills are more successful «much larger in magnitude» in having students graduate and attend college than those whose work results in higher test scores alone (see You'll Want To Read This Interview With Education Researcher Kirabo Jackson).