Sentences with phrase «although achievement test scores»

However, if a gifted child has lost the motivation to learn, he or she may not do well in school, although achievement test scores will usually remain high.

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Although researchers debate what IQ tests actually measure, they agree that scores can predict our ability to learn and perform certain tasks, and to some degree forecast our later academic achievement and job performance.

Although there were some small - scale random - assignment experiments of the effects of desegregation on test scores, most of what we know today concerns the relationship between a school outcome such as achievement on the one hand, and racial composition on the other.

Although African American and Hispanic students had fairly similar scores on the baseline achievement test, students in these groups differed in a number of respects.

Performance metrics tied directly to student test - score growth are appealing because although schools and teachers differ dramatically in their effects on student achievement, researchers have had great difficulty linking these performance differences to characteristics that are easily observed and measured.

And a new study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University — although not studying the important question of whether teachers who receive high scores on TAP evaluations tend to produce greater gains in their students» test scores — found that a small sample of secondary schools using TAP produced no higher levels of student achievement than schools that hadn't implemented the TAP program.

Both Klein and Rhee say their achievements include higher graduation rates and increased test scores, although critics question how accurately the statistics convey the true story and whether the scores are inflated.

Although processing speed across its full range has not shown a relationship to achievement, it is possible that subtest profiles with unusually weak or strong processing speed scores would display differential reading test performance.

Although standardized test scores can give a general idea of the level of student achievement (typically limited to items that ask for recognition of information), the scores they report do not offer detailed insights into what students think or what they know how to do in practice.

More recently, proponents of school uniforms have argued that they improve student achievement and student test scores, although the research is mixed on both these claims and the claims of improved student discipline.