When that happens, the portion of students scoring "proficient" on state tests climbs.
Instead a school might have a 70-30 mix — 70 percent of students who have scored proficient on state tests and 30 percent who are below grade level.
Still, slightly fewer than half the district's fourth-grade students were proficient in state language arts and math tests in 2005.
This year, 77percentt of 10th graders are proficient on state reading tests, compared with 48percentt when the students were in eighth grade; 58 percent are proficient in math as 10th graders, up from 43percentt as eighth graders.
Stacey Johnson, a Parks teacher, told investigators that she had students in her class who had scored proficient on state tests in previous years but were actually reading on the first-grade level.
Students from this poor, mostly African-American school district who could barely read were rated proficient on state tests, and they didn't receive the remedial help they needed.
We're not satisfied". Colorado's definition of proficient, a state official said, was changed to comply with No Child Left Behind, which requires that results be reported in three categories.
According to the data, students at about two-thirds of schools were more proficient on state reading and math tests in 2011-2012, compared to the year before their schools received the grants.
"Making comparisons to the NAEP becomes very difficult without giving the impression that some states are not measuring up to others or to the nation". In Georgia, 83percentt of eighth graders scored at or above proficient on state reading tests, compared with just 24percentt on the federal test.
This subject did not agree that he/she is proficient in state diagrams or other system modeling languages.
One subject agreed that he/she is proficient in state diagrams and statecharts and he/she is indifferent to other system modeling languages.
