October 18, 2022
The Recent ‘How Kids Are Performing’ Report Reveals Growth and Recovery Among Young Learners
T The most recent edition of How Kids Are Performing, a report outlining student academic performance and growth during the 2021–2022 school year, was released by Renaissance, a world leader in pre-K–12 education technology. The study discovered that while overall student performance in math and reading improved in the lower grades over the previous academic year, it declined in the upper grades.
The report emphasises the necessity of maintaining momentum and action while outlining specific causes for optimism regarding the outcomes, which differ significantly by grade level.
In almost all grades and groups, particularly in elementary school, the How Kids Are Performing, based on the Star Reading assessments of over 4.6 million students and the Star Math assessments of almost 3.3 million students, shows improvements in within-year growth compared to the prior school year.
…younger students are now frequently outperforming what we would consider "typical" growth in a single academic year…
Dr. Gene Kerns, the chief academic officer at Renaissance, stated that younger students are now frequently outperforming what we would consider "typical" growth in a single academic year.
"As we have been tracking the pandemic's effects, the two student achievement areas that have caused the most worry are kindergarteners' math and literacy abilities. However, those two areas are showing strong growth improvements after initial declines during the 2021–2022 academic year. This implies that educators have acknowledged and addressed those issues, which is cause for celebration and maintaining hope for the work that needs to be done " he added.
Renaissance has made several free resources available to educators to aid them in making the most of their classroom time as they work to hasten student learning this academic year, including:
Focus Skills in English and Spanish, which are created to assist educators in identifying the most important skills for the future learning at each grade level, Trip Steps for Reading, which show the most challenging reading skills for students to master from pre-K through Algebra 1, and Trip Steps for Mathematics, which show the most challenging math concepts for students to master from pre-K through Algebra 2.
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