TEST SCORES GOOD NEWS FOR NEWHALL; STUDENTS' READING, MATH SKILLS BETTER THAN NATIONAL AVERAGE.Byline: Mary Mary, the mother of Jesus Mary, in the Bible, mother of Jesus. Christian tradition reckons her the principal saint, naming her variously the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady, and Mother of God (Gr., theotokos). Her name is the Hebrew Miriam. Schubert Daily News Staff Writer Newhall School District The Newhall School District is a school district in the Santa Clarita Valley that serves the Valencia and Newhall communities within the city of Santa Clarita, California, as well as the Stevenson Ranch community in unincorporated Los Angeles County. students scored well above the national average on standardized tests A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent" [1] in the 1996-97 school year, and bilingual education bilingual education, the sanctioned use of more than one language in U.S. education. The Bilingual Education Act (1968), combined with a Supreme Court decision (1974) mandating help for students with limited English proficiency, requires instruction in the native students also showed improvement, the superintendent said. ``On average, students in the Newhall School District are scoring higher than most kids in the nation. That's pretty impressive,'' said Superintendent Marc Winger wing·er n. Sports A player who plays wing, as in hockey or soccer. winger Noun Sport a player positioned on a wing Noun 1. , who took over as superintendent of the 5,600-student district in July. At a recent school board meeting, Winger explained the scores of the California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). Achievement Test - taken by 4,332 students in first through sixth grades - and the SABE SABE Spanish Assessment of Basic Education SABE Seamless Administrative Boundaries of Europe SABE subacute bacterial endocarditis SABE Society for Automation in Business Education 2 exam, administered to 412 students learning their academics in Spanish Spanish, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, issuing from Spanish Lake, S Ont., Canada, NW of Sudbury, and flowing generally S through Biskotasi and Agnew lakes to Lake Huron opposite Manitoulin island. There are several hydroelectric stations on the river. . Kindergartners don't take the standardized tests, which are mandatory for the other grade levels. The CAT 5 exam, given in February, tests students in reading, math and language. Published by CTB/McGraw-Hill, it is used by about 20 percent of the nation's school districts that give standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. exams, said company spokesman Michael Kean. ``In California this past year, 216 different school districts used the CAT,'' Kean said. SABE 2 tests reading and math skills, and in the Newhall district was administered at the four schools with bilingual education programs: Wiley Canyon, Peachland, Old Orchard orchard, generally an area on which fruit or nut trees are planted and cultivated. The words grove and plantation are often used when the fruits are tropical, e.g., a "citrus grove" or a "banana plantation. and Newhall. Winger said the 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 illustrate whether students in the Newhall district as a whole - or, more specifically, by individual school and grade level - fared better or worse than the national average. In short, a 50 percent score ranks as average, and anything higher or lower represents better or worse, respectively, he said. The math scores particularly pleased Winger, who said that parents had voiced concerns in recent years when the district changed to curriculum and textbooks that some felt didn't place enough emphasis on the basics - addition, subtraction subtraction, fundamental operation of arithmetic; the inverse of addition. If a and b are real numbers (see number), then the number a−b is that number (called the difference) which when added to b (the subtractor) equals , multiplication multiplication, fundamental operation in arithmetic and algebra. Multiplication by a whole number can be interpreted as successive addition. For example, a number N multiplied by 3 is N + N + N. and division. One trend he noticed was that reading scores on the CAT 5 test tended to compare more favorably fa·vor·a·ble adj. 1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds. 2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis. 3. with their national counterparts in the younger grades, while there was a dip in scores at the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade levels, Winger said. Generally, district schools scored lower on the standardized tests if their enrollments include a high concentration of students from low-income families, or students with limited proficiency pro·fi·cien·cy n. pl. pro·fi·cien·cies The state or quality of being proficient; competence. Noun 1. proficiency - the quality of having great facility and competence in English, Winger said. The SABE test was administered at the same time as the CAT 5 exam. ``We're pretty proud of the SABE scores. This is a population that is being instructed in Spanish,'' Winger said. ``The district score has risen in every grade for three years.'' A few interesting patterns emerged from the dizzying interpretations of the CAT 5 scores - analyzed an·a·lyze tr.v. an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es 1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. by national percentile, grade-level equivalents and mean scores. On the math test, Meadows Elementary had the highest score in four grade levels and the lowest score in two in the percentile rankings, compared to its six counterparts. On the language test, Newhall Elementary registered the high score in two grade levels and the low score in four. In that same language category, Stevenson Ranch Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. , Valencia Valley and Wiley Canyon scored in the middle at every grade level. Winger gave credit to district faculty for the student achievement on the standardized tests. ``We didn't luck into these scores. This is good teaching going on,'' he said. How the schools performed The following information shows the schools that produced the highest and lowest scores - by grade level in the Newhall district - on the 1996-97 California Achievement Test, given to the district's 4,332 pupils. Also shown are results of the SABE 2 test, taken by 412 bilingual education pupils. RESULTS OF THE 1996-97 CAT 5 EXAM Scores cover all seven elementary schools elementary school: see school. in the Newhall School District. READING First grade: High score - 81, Peachland Low score - 67, Old Orchard Second grade: High score - 79, Newhall Low score - 68, Valencia Valley Third grade: High score - 85, Meadows Low score - 74, Wiley Canyon Fourth grade: High score - 82, Old Orchard Low score - 71, Newhall Fifth grade: High score - 82, Old Orchard Low score - 61, Stevenson Ranch Sixth grade: High score - 75, shared by Meadows, Peachland, Stevenson Ranch and Wiley Canyon Low score - 69, Newhall LANGUAGE First grade: High score - 84, Peachland Low score - 72, tie with Newhall and Old Orchard Second grade: High score - 87, tie with Newhall and Peachland Low score - 75, Old Orchard Third grade: High score - 85, tie with Meadows and Newhall Low score - 72, Peachland Fourth grade: High score - 87, Meadows Low score - 74, Newhall Fifth grade: High score - 92, Old Orchard Low score - 80, Newhall Sixth grade: High score - 89, Old Orchard Low score - 84, Newhall MATHEMATICS First grade: High score - 89, Peachland Low score - 74, Meadows Second grade: High score - 88, Meadows and Stevenson Ranch Low score - 81, Valencia Valley and Wiley Canyon Third grade: High score - 91, Meadows Low score - 77, Newhall Fourth grade: High score - 91, Meadows Low score - 80, Newhall Fifth grade: High score - 90, Old Orchard Low score - 80, Meadows Sixth grade: High score - 91, Meadows Low score - 83, Newhall RESULTS OF 1996-97 SABE 2 TESTS Scores cover the four elementary schools with Spanish-language curriculum. READING First grade: High score - 68, Newhall Low score - 38, Old Orchard Second grade: High score - 50, Old Orchard Low score - 28, Newhall Third grade: High score - 42, Peachland Low score - 29, Wiley Canyon Fourth grade: High score - 28, tie with Old Orchard and Wiley Canyon Low score - 13, Peachland Fifth grade: High score - 24, Wiley Canyon Low score - 7, Newhall Sixth grade: High score - 26, Peachland Low score - 14, Wiley Canyon (no score for Newhall) MATHEMATICS First grade: High score - 58, Newhall Low score - 30, Peachland Second grade: High score - 52, Old Orchard Low score - 25, Wiley Canyon Third grade: High score - 49, Peachland Low score - 19, Wiley Canyon Fourth grade: High score - 49, Wiley Canyon Low score - 14, Peachland Fifth grade: High score - 41, Old Orchard Low score - 13, Peachland Sixth grade: High score - 49, Old Orchard Low score - 12, Wiley Canyon (no score for Newhall) CAPTION(S): Box Box: How the schools performed (see text) |
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