Sentences with phrase «sat percentile points»

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For example, research has found homeschoolers generally score 15 to 30 percentile points above public school students on standardized tests and they're achieving above average scores on the ACT and SAT tests.

For both the 1993 and 2000 cohorts, teachers score lower on average than nonteachers among both STEM majors and non-STEM majors, in some cases by as much as 7 SAT percentile rank points (see Figure 2).

In 1997 - 98, Los Angeles students in grades 2 - 8 scored in the 24th percentile in reading on the SAT 9, while Houston scored in the 32nd percentile, a gap of 8 national percentile ranking points.

The average SAT scores of first - year teachers in 2008 was 8 percentile rank points higher than the average score among those who entered teaching in 2001.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

Students in the study said that they expected their SAT scores to go up by at least 100 points by taking the prep package — a bump from the 50th percentile to the 69th percentile — but they were willing to sacrifice that critical improvement to save face with their peers.

It increases by 22 percent the likelihood that they apply to at least one peer college, which we define here as a college with students whose median SAT scores are within 5 percentile points of the applicants» own scores.

It is also noteworthy that Houston's average SAT - 9 reading scores for 2003 peaked in the first grade at the 51st percentile, and consistently declined beyond that point to the 27th percentile for ninth grade students, a level at which a student has almost no comprehension of the assigned textbooks.

After one year of AMSTI implementation, students in the treatment schools scored, on average, two percentile points higher on the SAT 10 mathematics problem solving assessment than their control group counterparts, and the difference was statistically significant.