Sentences with phrase «overall score gains»

• Overall score gains may mask wider achievement gaps between high - scoring and low - scoring students, with percentages of students scoring in the lower ranges stuck or increasing.

Overall score gains may mask increasing or unchanging percentages of students scoring in the lower ranges and wider achievement gaps between high and low scoring students.

Not exact matches

Both genders gained in several specific mindfulness and self - compassion skills and their overall scores increased significantly.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

Keeping an accurate score of points gained by each team, or player, is important when deciding who the overall winner is.

Each dot represents a school, and the diagonal line shows the overall relationship between test - score gains and fluid cognitive ability across the full sample of schools.

Overall, the 0.12 correlation between new expenditure and test - score gain is just barely positive.

The fast year - to - year increases in the first and last periods result in large part from increases in the amount of time in school, while the negligible change in overall scores between 2003 and 2004 does not pick up real gains made despite a shortened school 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.

Overall scoring patterns in New York State remained largely unchanged, with black and Hispanic students making small proficiency gains but remaining at least 20 percentage points behind white test - takers.

But the evidence on test score gains is massive: CREDO has studied dozens of cities and have found an overall effect of ~.1 for urban areas serving hundreds of thousands of students.

However ~ NAEP shows minimalto - no improvement for these students ~ and some losses; whats more ~ white and Hispanic students scores fell by 3 points ~ and black students scores stayed the same ~ so only the influx of new wealthier students with higher scores could account for the small overall gain.

This suggests an alternative criterion by which to judge changes in student performance - namely, that achievement gains on test items that measure particular skills or understandings may be meaningful even if the student's overall test score does not fully generalize to other exams.

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.

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.

Though scores weren't broken down by teacher, the overall scores were sufficiently modest to make the kind of gain Ms. Rhee cited statistically unlikely.

Of the LA Unified elementary schools with with the top five scores on the CORE index — there were nine overall due to some ties — the only perfect score of 100 was Balboa Gifted / High Ability Magnet Elementary, which is a magnet school for gifted students who must already be high - achieving students in order to gain admission.

Perhaps most excitingly, we found that innovation in the hands of forward - thinking educators has the potential to make a real impact: overall, for grades 3 - 8, participation in the Pilot Network resulted in a gain of 1.07 additional test - score points above what the control group achieved on NWEA.

Overall gains may also mask widening score gaps and students «stuck» at the low - scoring levels.

This «loss» may contribute to boosting school scores overall or may reduce the percentage of students scoring in the «failing» or «needs improvement» category, but such «improvements» will not necessarily represent authentic learning gains.

The mean achievement gains for males on the overall test battery imply a percentile gain in test scores of a little less than 10 percentiles.

«In 2011 Alabama moved from near last to 25th in the nation in overall grades and scores [Education Week assessment]... 12th in the nation for standards, assessments and accountability... data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed a historic gain of eight points in fourth grade Reading for Alabama public school students — the... highest gain ever in NAEP recorded history.

While the country saw modest gains of 1 scale score point and 3 scale score points in fourth and eighth grade reading, respectively, there was no change to overall scale scores in either grade for mathematics from 2009 to 2017.

To compute percentile gains at kindergarten entrance by group, I assumed that the test score distributions were normal, and test score distributions were calculated with the overall average at kindergarten entrance set at the 50th percentile.

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.

Accountability Plan Spurs Achievement Gains for Indiana District — Making accountability a matter of policy helped this school district narrow the acheivement gap and raise students» achievement scores overall.

Following test scores from year to year in the same grade, the study finds that statewide improvements in standard Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) scores reported by the Connecticut State Department of Education (SDE) between 2008 and 2009 — the period of the largest reported gains — were largely the result of the exclusion of students with disabilities from these standard test results, rather than overall improvements in performance.

Several of the schools that made big gains still have relatively low overall test scores, with less than 20 percent of students scoring at the levels of proficient or advanced on state assessments.

DC Bilingual received an overall score of 75.3 — a 13 - point gain from our previous score and a clear indication of our continued student - centered, academically - driven teaching approach.

But NCLB's failure to spur overall test score gains or close racial gaps led «reformers» to push for national, or «common,» standards.

For students as a whole, the overall effects of the Tulsa pre-K program are: a 52 percent gain in the Letter - Word Identification test score; a 27 percent gain in the spelling test score; and a 21 percent gain in the applied problems test score.

Since the indicators do not culminate in a single score, parents may need to review more dimensions of performance and fit the pieces together themselves to gain an overall understanding of how well a school is doing.

In short, innovation in the hands of forward - thinking educators has the potential to make a real impact: overall, for grades 3 - 8, participation in the Pilot Network resulted in a gain of 1.07 additional test - score points above what the control group achieved on NWEA.

Leigh UTC also gained a positive Progress 8 score for disadvantaged pupils 2016 at 0.02, though its overall Progress 8 score was -0.09.

Those gains represent the school system's largest overall improvement since 2008, when scores jumped under then - Chancellor Michelle Rhee.

Overall, LA Unified's scores continue to fall below the state average, even though its students posted slightly better gains.

Overall, the city's subsequent Report Card gave Promise Academy middle school an A. Of course, without a clear understanding of attrition patterns (at least one kid had been expelled) it would be a mistake to put too much stock in test score gains.

Nissan's compact crossover gained the maximum five - star overall rating and the «Best in Class» distinction, thanks to high scores in each area.

The top achievers gained the highest overall scores, calculated from the results achieved in adult, child, pedestrian protection and safety assist tests.

In a comparative study of test scores in states showing changes in the number of librarians between 2004 and 2009, Lance and Hofschire (2011) determined states which gained school librarians demonstrated a greater rise in reading scores while states that lost librarians had an overall decline in reading scores.

With that in mind, it is important to gain a better understanding of how credit scores work so it'll be possible to improve your overall creditworthiness.

 Overall, this meant that Jerdon scored the lowest in all races, gaining him the first place trophy.

Gameplay is (as noted) very similar to Space Invaders, as you jump and avoid the aliens from above you shoot them down with either your regular gun, or the spread fire / laser special attacks you collect to gain access to new platforms to reach the next few levels and collect as many space gems as you can to increase your overall score.