Sentences with phrase «overall average student»

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For the months during the study, the school district provided data for average daily participation rates, overall school enrollment, and percent of students receiving a free or reduced price lunch.

Assuming each of these new five classes taking in 60 students on average, about 300 students per form leading to an increase in the overall student population by 900 students.

Loertscher says that after switching from traditional lectures to inquiry - based classes, she got more strongly positive and negative comments, but overall, her average student evaluations didn't change.

Overall, when students were alone at a hand cleaning station, hand cleaning rates averaged 48 percent, compared to 71 percent when at least one other student was present.

Existing law requires the governing boards of each community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, the Regents of the NEW HAVEN — Connecticut students have some of the highest student debt in the nation — fourth highest overall, with the average 2016 state graduate

However, on average, students» overall judgment and ranking of the relative trustworthiness of websites was not improved — although it did improve for a subset of students (Zhang & Duke, 2008).

Students who won the lottery are more than 55 percentage points more likely than losers to attend their first - choice school in the first year, and on average spend an additional 1 to 1.5 years enrolled in that school overall.

Although the results varied considerably between schools, the overall achievement of students across the 28 schools represents an average effect size of 0.6, which can be seen the shift in the relative proportions in each zone of the LAF from August to November shown in Figure 1.

The overall results — the average for the three subject areas — indicate an average positive impact on student achievement of 4 percent of a standard deviation whenever the teacher - student gender was the same (see Figure 3).

The study finds that the overall reductions in criminal activity are concentrated among the top 20 percent of high - risk students, who are disproportionately African American, eligible for free lunch, with more days of absence and suspensions than the average student.

The matrix converts scores on standardized tests — the Stanford Achievement Test for English - speaking students and the Aprenda exam for Spanish - speaking students with limited English proficiency — scores on the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT), average course grades, teacher recommendations, and indicators for socioeconomic status into an overall index score.

The average NAEP reading score for Hispanic students in Florida (on a test conducted in English mind you) is now higher than the overall average scores (for students from all racial and ethnic groups) of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

Separate and apart from overall averages, there has been continuing concern for the level of skills among racial / ethnic minorities as well as concern for the effects of accountability on low - versus high - performing students (specifically, whether or not NCLB placed so much attention on low - performing students that high - performing students were neglected and suffered as a result).

So varied are state standards that the relative rigor of a state's proficiency definition is a better predictor of the percentage of schools said to be «failing» (not making AYP) than the overall quality of student performance in the state, as estimated by average NAEP scores.

The school that stuck with the program (IS 228 in Brooklyn) posted student growth gains on the state assessment that were twice the average of NYC schools overall in its second year, and proficiency gains that exceeded both the city and charter school norms.

Students whose teachers receive an overall rating one standard deviation above the mean are predicted to score roughly 0.06 standard deviations higher in reading than students whose teacher received an averageStudents whose teachers receive an overall rating one standard deviation above the mean are predicted to score roughly 0.06 standard deviations higher in reading than students whose teacher received an averagestudents whose teacher received an average rating.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

The second most - frequently listed trait, and fourth in overall average, was that school leaders need to be trustworthy and straight with students and staff.

They tend to have higher average socioeconomic status students than the population of elementary schools overall.

Summing the added cost of the separate programs suggested by Picus and Odden, I estimate that the overall plan, if fully applied, would increase average spending in Washington by $ 1,760 to $ 2,760 per student, or 23 to 35 percent.

As would be expected in a randomized experiment, students in the treatment and control groups — both overall and across African Americans and Hispanics — had similar characteristics on average.

We observe that there is virtually no relationship between the relative affluence of the overall student body of the school and the SES test score gap in that school: schools serving primarily high - SES students and those serving primarily low - SES students have the same average SES test score gaps (around 0.8 standard deviations) in both third and fifth grades.

• Decreased the average number of days students spent in suspension by 1.8 days overall, and by 3 for African American students.

When asked to rate the overall quality of the child's school at baseline, the parents of Hispanic students gave an average rating of 2.63 (on a 4 - point, GPA - type scale), compared to the 2.29 rating given by the parents of African Americans.

Taking the average of students» scores on math and literacy exams, we find that students in tracking schools scored 0.14 standard deviations higher than students in nontracking schools overall.

The state's overall academic performance lags national averages, with its students scoring in the bottom quartile in both reading and math on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress results.

Students increasingly compose within social media environments and teachers should capitalize on this affinity, as did Dr. Reynol Junco at Lock Haven University, in a study where his students used Twitter and other social media tools to increase their overall grade point averages (seeStudents increasingly compose within social media environments and teachers should capitalize on this affinity, as did Dr. Reynol Junco at Lock Haven University, in a study where his students used Twitter and other social media tools to increase their overall grade point averages (seestudents used Twitter and other social media tools to increase their overall grade point averages (see video).

Overall, NSW students scored above the national average and rank in the top three for all tests for all year levels.

If policymakers had maintained the same overall teacher - to - student ratio since the 1970s, we would need 1 million fewer teachers, training could be focused on a smaller and more able population, and average teacher pay would be close to $ 75,000 per year.

Here it is important to note again that a school's grades are based not on its overall average scale score but rather on the percentage of students meeting levels of proficiency and the percentage of students making adequate gains on the tests.

Among 657 Playworks partner schools across the country surveyed in Spring 2017, 95 percent of school staff reported an improvement in overall school climate; 97 percent witnessed an increase in the number of students engaged in healthy play during recess; and teachers reported an average of 19 recovered learning hours in the classroom.

Overall, non-Hispanic white students scored 0.27 standard deviations above the average on the math exam in the fall of kindergarten, while black students fell 0.36 standard deviations below the average, yielding a raw black - white gap of 0.63 standard deviations.

English - language learners were overrepresented among dropouts in the class of 2011 — 16 percent, compared to the 4 percent district average — and special education students accounted for more than one in five dropouts in 2011, higher than their 11 percent share of the class overall.

The overall result: since the recession hit at the end of 2007, revenue growth nationally has averaged only about 1.5 percent above inflation annually — far from enough to make up for declining state support and rising student enrollment.

To get an overall rate for MPCP students, we compute a weighted average for the two groups of 7.5 percent.

[3] That means that if all schools could be persuaded to switch to one of the top quartile textbooks, student achievement would rise overall by roughly.127 student - level standard deviations or an average of 3.6 percentile points.

While the grades — first given districtwide last month — are not factored into students» overall grade point averages, those who score well on the measurements earn a «hire me first»...

However, because schools with larger populations of black students have higher average exclusionary discipline rates overall, race - matched students at those schools are not necessarily less likely to experience such measures.

The inclusion of larger percentages of students with disabilities — 11 percent in both grades in 2009 compared with eight percent in 2007 — did not impact overall achievement as average scores and proficiency levels for the commonwealth's fourth and eighth graders were similar to 2007.

While Virginia students again ranked among the nation's highest achievers, the 2009 NAEP results for the commonwealth show that overall achievement among Virginia fourth graders is similar to achievement in 2002, while the overall average reading score for eighth graders has declined.

Furthermore, overall scores for students that made changes grew an average of half a point on the district four - point rubric.

For instance, between the early 1970s and 2008, reading scores for 9 - year - olds rose by 14 points for white students, 34 points for African American students, and 25 points for Latino students — more in every case than the average gain of 12 points for 9 - year - olds overall.

Overall, students with high reading engagement scored significantly above the international average on the combined reading literacy scale, regardless of their family background.

Increases in achievement for African American and Latino students, in particular, were substantially higher than the average gains for students overall at all three age groups and in both subjects.

When the overall population contains a greater share of students from lower - performing racial / ethnic groups, then achievement must go up even more to produce gains in the average score for all students.

The CRPE report indicates that, on average, students with disabilities in charter schools suffer less from some of the academic deficits experienced by students without disabilities in online charter schools, but overall students with disabilities perform better in traditional public schools.

That is one - third the district average, making it one of the wealthiest schools in a district whose students overall have gotten poorer.

The national average for all demographics is about 50 percent, though in Oakland, just 22 percent of city students overall who start a college education finish in that time frame.