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ACT, Inc., 2016
This report provides information about the performance of Delaware's 2016 graduating seniors who took the ACT as sophomores, juniors, or seniors; and self-reported at the time of testing that they were scheduled to graduate in 2016. Beginning with the Graduating Class of 2013, all students whose scores are college reportable, both standard and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Standards, Achievement Tests
National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
A representative sample of 122,000 eighth-graders participated in the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) science assessment, which is designed to measure students' knowledge and abilities in the areas of physical science, life science, and Earth and space sciences. This report covers the overall results, achievement level…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, Economic Status, Educational Assessment
Erskine, Brian Marshall – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study attempts to explain the substantial differences in mathematical achievement of elementary students in a Delaware school district by analyzing the level of content and pedagogical knowledge of elementary math teachers. I examined tenth graders' longitudinal state test results in mathematics and found that performance in the primary years…
Descriptors: Test Results, Teacher Collaboration, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Strategies
Center on Education Policy, 2011
This paper profiles Delaware's test score trends through 2008-09. In 2006, the mean scale score on the state 4th grade reading test was 474 for non-Title I students and 464 for Title I students. In 2009, the mean scale score in 4th grade reading was 478 for non-Title I students and 467 for Title I students. Between 2006 and 2009, the mean scale…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Achievement Rating
ACT, Inc., 2012
This report provides information about the performance of Delaware's 2012 graduating seniors who took the ACT as sophomores, juniors, or seniors; and self-reported at the time of testing that they were scheduled to graduate in 2012 and tested under standard time conditions. This report focuses on: (1) Performance: student test performance in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Standards, Access to Information
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2003
This guide is intended to help parents understand the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) and the reports it generates. The DSTP tests are administered to provide an accurate measure of how well students are doing relative to Delaware's rigorous content standards. DSTP tests are administered in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Parents, Scores, State Programs
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2003
This guide contains materials to help Delaware educators understand and use reports from the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP). The DSTP tests are tied to the Delaware content standards that define the knowledge and skills required for students to progress beyond high school. In spring 2003, the DSTP reading, writing, and mathematics tests…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Scores, State Programs, Teachers
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2002
To help teachers, administrators, and parents understand student performance in writing, a state-level report is prepared each year to analyze students writing scores and provide guidelines for the interpretation of the results. This report compares students scores on the 2001 Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) with scores on the 2000 DSTP…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Scores, Scoring
Wall, Janet – 1977
Change efforts undertaken by schools and districts as a result of obtaining data from the October 1976 testing of 40 mathematics objectives for fourth graders in Delaware are briefly described. End-of-the-year results from 13 districts which gave posttests in May 1977 are also presented. Data are reported by total score, strand, and objective. A…
Descriptors: Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2001
This report is intended to help parents understand the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) and the reports it generates. The tests of the DSTP are tied to the Delaware content standards that define the knowledge and skills required for students to succeed beyond high school. In spring 2001, the DSTP reading, writing, and mathematics tests were…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Parents, Scores
ACT, Inc., 2009
This report provides information about the performance of 2009 graduating seniors who took the ACT as sophomores, juniors, or seniors; and self-reported at the time of testing that they were scheduled to graduate in 2009 and tested under standard time conditions. This report focuses on: (1) Performance: student test performance in the context of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Articulation (Education), College Bound Students
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2003
With the administration of the 2002 Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP), a questionnaire was given to students in grades 3, 5, 8, and 10 about Opportunity to Learn, Reading, Writing, and Mathematics, and to all students in grades 4, 6, 8, and 11 about Opportunity to Learn, Science, and Social Studies. Students responses to the questions were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades, Questionnaires, Science Tests
National Assessment of Educational Progress, Princeton, NJ. – 1995
In 1990, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) included a Trial State Assessment (TSA); for the first time in NAEP's history, voluntary state-by-state assessments were made. In 1994, TSA was expanded to include non-public school students. The 1994 reading assessment considered students' proficiency in situations that involved…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, National Competency Tests
Zhang, Yanwei; Zhang, Liru – 2002
This study modeled school and district effects in the mathematics scores of the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) using hierarchical linear modeling. Three-level hierarchical models were fitted to estimate school and district effects in the DSTP mathematics scores and to examine the school and district variance with variables assessing…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Estimation (Mathematics)
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 1999
This summary report, based on College Board profiles, contains information specific to Delaware students who took the Scholastic Assessment Tests (SAT) and Advanced Placement Examinations in 1999--representing more than 5,500 college-bound seniors representing public and private high schools throughout the state. National data are included to help…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement Programs, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations