In Maryland’s Frederick County Public Schools, Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10) results provide evidence that the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) may have something to do with better second-grade math scores, the Frederick News Post reported.
Frederick County pre-kindergarten through second-grade students have already been introduced to the first phase of the new CCSS math curriculum. District officials believe there is a connection between the Standards and second-graders’ performance on the SAT-10. After all, in a typical year, school officials may see a 2 percent increase in the number of pupils scoring above the 40th percentile. This year, the number has grown to 8.7 percent.
"I really believe that what we can attribute the success to is state standards combined with our teachers building quality resources," Chris Horne, the district’s elementary math and science curriculum specialist, told the news source. "Right now, our teachers have a great new set of tools they didn't have before."
Frederick County uses the SAT-10 to see how prepared second-graders are for the third grade. In addition to math, the standardized test measures students’ abilities in the areas of reading, language, listening, science and social science, according to the Pearson Education website.
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