The compulsory phonics check assesses a child's ability to sound out or decode a series of words, some of which are made up, to test their reading skills.
To help neo-literate police officers test their reading ability with informative and relevant material, UNESCO publishes a monthly newspaper, Khedmat (which means "service" in the Pashto and Dari languages).
The act requires states to test students in reading and math every year, and penalizes schools if they don't meet standards.
In Ghana, for example, sixth-graders sitting a simple multiple-choice reading test scored on average the same mark that would be gained by random guessing.
His review also recommends the reading test should be "refined" and that there should be a distinct writing test covering spelling, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary.
Mrs Donaldson also questioned the government's reading test for six-year-olds.
According to the Manhattan Institute, a research group, test scores in reading and maths have remained much as they were before the two men took over, well below the national and big-city averages.
Examiners will struggle too, to produce a single test that measures the same level of ability in children of different ages. (In music tests all candidates for a given grade play the same pieces: in an English test, quite different reading texts and writing topics would suit an eight-year-old than an 11-year-old.) The changes might even have the perverse effect of making children sit more tests.
By doing so the robot's camera scanner reading of DNA test strips eliminates human error.
Under Vallas, elementary school reading and math test scores, though still low, are at seven-year highs.
The law requires schools to test students for math and reading annually in third through eighth grades and once in high school.
"I think we should begin by having every state test every fourth grader in reading and every eighth grader in math by the year 1999, " Clinton said.
Reams of research point to the same finding: physicians looking at the same thing will disagree with each other, or even with themselves, from 10 percent to 50 percent of the time during virtually every aspect of the medical-care process from taking a medical history to doing a physical examination, reading a laboratory test, performing a pathological diagnosis and recommending a treatment.
Department of Education officials issued strong warnings against reading too much into test scores, which are only one aspect of a teacher's value.
In reading, the most recent test results for 17 year olds have remained static since 1994 and are slightly lower than the years between 1988 and 1992.
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She noted that 88 percent of third-graders passed the reading portion of the state assessment test this year, up from 76 percent in 1994.
The recent improvement, he speculates, may be the welcome byproduct of a upturn in math and reading skills, as measured by test scores, among minorities in the years before the students reach ninth grade.
Thanks to the actions of this Congress last year, we will soon have for the very first time a voluntary national test based on national standards in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math.
The latest test figures confirm that girls are ahead in reading, but there is no longer any difference in maths - with the girls having closed a lead held by the boys in the 1970s.
States receiving waivers still must test the covered students annually in math and reading, but they can design their own policies to help low-scoring campuses and won't have to subject them to closings or staff firings.
"Accountability" has turned to test cramming and bean counting, often limited to basic reading and math skills.
But 76% agreed with proposals to test the skills of trainee teachers in the areas of reading, writing, arithmetic and new technology.
In December the OECD published the results of a test pitting teenage students around the world against each other in reading, science and maths.
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There are certainly people who fall into different camps on certain issues, for example people who want to use pay for performance based on test scores, school-choice advocates, people who think reading should be taught by using phonics, people who think there should be no homework, and on and on and on.
They are considerably behind girls in reading and writing, motivation, grades, and standardized test scores.
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England's new primary phonics test risks doing "long-term damage" to children's reading, teachers' leaders say.
Only about 45% of elementary students passed state reading exams last year, and 33% passed the math test.
The reading section is about seeing things the same way as the test-makers.
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