HART DISTRICT MAKES GRADE ON STANFORD 9.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer Local high school and junior high students fared above average on the new statewide standardized tests, but 10th-graders lagged behind the other grade levels on the reading, language and history exams. Scores released Monday by the William S. Hart Union High School District show students recorded the best marks on the eighth- and ninth-grade math exams and the seventh- and eighth-grade language tests. The exam, approved by the state Legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: ``District students scored at or above the national averages in all subjects,'' Gary Wexler, director of curriculum and assessment for the Hart district said in a statement. Scores of 50 are average in the test using the national percentile rank The percentile rank of a score is the percentage of scores in its frequency distribution which are lower. For example, a test score which is greater than 85% of the scores of people taking the test is said to be at the 85th percentile. method. Reports to be sent home to parents of each student explain that national percentile ranks compare each student's results to scores of the same grade in a national sample. The individual reports show parents how many questions their child answered correctly, while also detailing the student's ``scaled score'' - which gives more weight to hard questions and less weight to easier questions. Today, the state Department of Education was scheduled to post on the Internet the Stanford 9 test scores for every school district in California. However, last Thursday, a judge issued a temporary restraining order temporary restraining order: see injunction. directing the government to withhold the scores of students not fluent in English. State officials said the last-minute, court-imposed change didn't give them enough time to separate out those figures from the data pertaining per·tain intr.v. per·tained, per·tain·ing, per·tains 1. To have reference; relate: evidence that pertains to the accident. 2. to English-speaking students. The judge's action, taken in response to a petition by the Berkeley and Oakland school districts, frustrated frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: Gov. Pete Wilson For others named Pete Wilson, see . Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that and Department of Education officials, who had spent months implementing California's first statewide test in years. In the Hart district, meanwhile, the Stanford 9 test was administered to 11,213 students in the seventh through 11 grades. The Hart district scores released Monday exclude the 5 percent of junior and high school students who aren't proficient in English, Wexler said. ``If you and I took a test in Russian, we wouldn't do too well,'' Wexler said, alluding to the judge's order that the non-English student scores not be released. If the Hart district can't compare its test scores to those of other California school districts, Wexler said parents and administrators can still assess student performance by comparing the Stanford 9 scores of Sierra Vista, Arroyo Seco Arroyo Seco (Spanish: "dry creek") may refer to:
Comparing this year's scores to last year's, however, would be inconclusive because 1998 is the first year the multiple-choice Stanford 9 has been administered, Wexler said. ``The test is brand new, and as such (it) will be creating a base line to measure improvement in the future,'' he said in a statement. Meanwhile, a common complaint about the Stanford 9 test - that the questions didn't match the curriculum in many school districts - will be addressed in the coming year. Wexler said the Hart district has begun integrating new standards in math and phonics phonics Method of reading instruction that breaks language down into its simplest components. Children learn the sounds of individual letters first, then the sounds of letters in combination and in simple words. , recently adopted by the state Board of Education, into its curriculum. TEST RESULTS The following are national percentile percentile, n the number in a frequency distribution below which a certain percentage of fees will fall. E.g., the ninetieth percentile is the number that divides the distribution of fees into the lower 90% and the upper 10%, or that fee level scores from tests taken by William S. Hart Union High School students. (Scores for students not proficient in English are excluded.) Grade level 7 8 9 10 11 Math 65 68 68 53 59 Reading 61 66 53 47 51 Language 68 68 63 48 56 Spelling 59 49 History 54 49 65 Science 59 57 55 CAPTION(S): Box BOX: TEST RESULTS (See text) |
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