Sentences with phrase «ethnic test score gaps»
Source: «The Geography of Racial / Ethnic Test Score Gaps», by Sean F. Reardon, Demetra Kalogrides and Kenneth Shores of Stanford
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In this latter paper, Reardon and coauthors report that while racial / ethnic test score gaps average around 0.6 standard deviations across all school districts, in some districts the gaps are almost nonexistent while in others they exceed 1.2 standard deviations.
Sean Reardon, Demetra Kalogrides, and Ken Shores, «The Geography of Racial / Ethnic Test Score Gaps,» Stanford University, CEPA working paper 16 - 10, January 2017 version.
Not exact matches
These findings make clear that while we can learn a tremendous amount by comparing school districts in terms of their racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic gaps in test scores, there is a large degree of variation within school districts in their outcome gaps as well.
Since the Common Core standards have never been field - tested, no one knows whether they will raise test scores or cause the achievement gap among different racial, ethnic, and income groups to narrow or to widen.
In his cross-examination, Marcellus McRae, took aim at Seymour's assertion that the district didn't use test scores to make employment decisions on teachers and that despite the district's innovative policies, achievement gaps between ethnic groups persisted.
While there were no significant overall gains among students of other ethnic groups, black students in their second year of private - school attendance improved their test scores by 6.3 percentile points — a striking advance at a time when schools around the country are trying to close a persistent gap between scores of white and black students.
And it's true that standardized tests have played an important role in pointing out the gap in test scores between socioeconomic and ethnic groups.
Although test scores improved, the improvements were marginal, and the ethnic score gap did not improve.
Breaking with its steadily upward trend, California's annual test scores have stagnated, with fewer than half of students proficient in math and English, and a wide ethnic achievement gap persisting.