Sentences with phrase «gain scores indicated»

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The data indicate that members of the treatment group who were attending private schools in the third year of the evaluation gained an average of 7.1 scale score points in reading from the program.

Waldfogel noted that trends in black - white test scores over the last 30 years indicate that we may be entering a period of steady gains among black students in America.

A gain score of zero indicates that a student has kept pace with the average student in the state, while a student with a gain score of 0.25 standard deviations will have improved his or her performance by enough to exceed roughly 10 percent of the state's students.

The correlation between initial performance and rate of growth is a negative 0.58, which indicates that states with lower initial scores had larger gains.

A handful of school districts and states — including Dallas, Houston, Denver, New York, and Washington, D.C. — have begun using student achievement gains as indicated by annual test scores (adjusted for prior achievement and other student characteristics) as a direct measure of individual teacher performance.

Gain scores from pretest to posttest indicated that middle school students retained important information by interacting with the online material for as little as 30 minutes per adventure; however, gains for high school students were less persuasive, perhaps indicating a different learning tool or content is required for this age audience.

«We find that following a ban on phone use, student test scores improve by 6.41 %... our results indicate that there are no significant gains in student performance if a ban is not widely complied with,» Beland and Murphy write in the LSE paper.

Such low scores indicate that the majority of students will have to make large gains in achievement before they are able to pass the test.

Additionally, the statistically significant increase in scores for each of the 12 MLAs measured across disciplines indicate that teachers from both STEM and non-STEM disciplines are able to implement and teach the grant's PLB curriculum successfully, thus producing student gains between pre - and postassessments.

One of the biggest changes in achievement gaps between 1971 and 2012 is a 27 - point narrowing between the average reading scores of black and white 17 - year - old students.The report's data indicate that such race - based gaps have narrowed because black and Hispanic students have made larger gains than their white peers.

Thus, if California were to keep these old rules, a school that should be applauded for its strong gains for English learners would fall in the «red zone» on the display developed by the state to indicate how a school is doing on a number of measures, including standardized test scores.

«The 2017 NAEP reading and math scores, while showing some gains for certain groups, indicate additional work is needed to ensure all children are proficient in mathematics and reading.

The E. M. Kauffman funded Philliber Research Associates evaluation of the CDF Freedom Schools program in Kansas City conducted between 2005 - 2007 indicates children who attend CDF Freedom Schools programs score significantly higher on standardized reading achievement tests than children who attend other summer enrichment programs; African American middle schools boys made the greatest gains of all.

If there is excessive weight gain or a body condition score greater than 5/9, owners should be directed to feed 10 % less calories (or more if indicated based on the animal's weight, body condition and calorie intake).

Resulting scores indicated that all CSP groups showed improvement in behavioral problems, but at different rates, suggesting a possible age effect on outcome; the middle childhood group demonstrated the most clinically significant gains.

However, almost all of the correlations were positive, indicating that residual gains on outcome measures were associated with higher rather than lower mean WAI - S scores, except in the relation between working alliance and anxiety.

Results showed that the composite score for therapeutic alliance correlated positively with residual gain scores for anxiety (r =.33, P <.05, d = 0.69), which indicates that patients who rated the alliance as better had greater reduction of their anxiety scores at posttreatment.