Sentences with phrase «analyze school test scores»

Perhaps the most reasonable way to compare charters and DPS - operated schools is to analyze school test scores and percentages of low - income students together, on the same scatter plot.

Not exact matches

First, we use our entire sample to analyze the extent to which the schools that students attend can explain the overall variation in student test scores and fluid cognitive skills, controlling for differences in prior achievement and student demographic characteristics (including gender, age, race / ethnicity, and whether the student is from a low - income family, is an English language learner, or is enrolled in special education).

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

Data on state math and reading test scores for all Florida students attending public schools in grades 3 to 10 from the 2000 - 01 through 2008 - 09 years were analyzed.

We analyzed test - score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in district schools.

[3] Hyman analyzed the test scores and college attendance of all public, high school students in Michigan, before and after the ACT was made universal.

Using a large data set provided by the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE), we analyzed student test scores as well as information about the students, their teachers, classrooms, and schools.

To analyze the program's impact on public schools, we collected school - level test scores on the 2001 - 02 and 2002 - 03 administrations of the FCAT and the Stanford - 9, a national norm - referenced test that is given to all Florida public school students around the same time as the FCAT.

Educators in the Lancaster schools analyze students» state and district test scores to improve instruction.

All schools with at least 30 students in grades 3 — 10 in two or more consecutive years will have standardized test score gains analyzed by state researchers.

Based on test score data covering seven years, The Times analyzed the effects of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers on their students» learning.

To assess the spillover effect of charter schools on students at district schools, I analyze how individual students» test scores, attendance, and grade progression change in response to exposure to a charter school.

The Council of the Great City Schools analyzed test scores in reading and mathematics for 59 city districts and found the greatest progress was made in boosting math scores.

When, however, my colleagues and I analyzed longitudinal data that adjusted for the grades and test scores of students in 8th grade, we found that students at schools with minimum - competency exams with C - grades in 8th grade, while not more likely to drop out, were about 7 percentage points less likely to get a high - school diploma or a General Education Diploma (GED) within six years.

Most school choice research, and other education policies for that matter, analyzes test scores as student outcomes.

The Times used the approach to analyze seven years of test scores in math and English to estimate the impact individual elementary school teachers had on their students.

The Center's Paul Zavitkovsky analyzed the meaning of the first PARCC test scores released for Chicago Public Schools.

Findings show that average scores on the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) state tests increased in Learning Leaders schools in all four core subjects analyzed.

The state agreed to have researchers at Harvard University analyze the scores and compare them with results on national exams and Regents tests, the subject exams that high school students are required to take for graduation.

The report analyzes data from a survey of school libraries, district performance reports, case studies and test scores.

The effort to analyze the performance of its university schools of education in recruiting and training teachers — using value - added analysis of student test score data — is one of the most - pathbreaking in the nation.

Over the summer, she analyzed their CMT scores and compared them to an end - of - year assessment from fourth grade, developing individual tests for the first week of school to see where students stood.

In case you've been off the grid, the Los Angeles Times hired a researcher to analyze seven years of math and English standardized test scores from the LA school district.

There I sat with teenage mothers from remote Jefferson Davis County on their first day of a two - year commitment, and on that first day we delved into discussions of how their children's schools were faring, looked at test scores and graduation rates, analyzed whether their school leaders were following best practices, debated the Common Core State Standards, and more.

And attending a school in which blacks and Hispanics make up more than 75 percent of the student body lowers achievement of black, Hispanic, and Asian students but does not affect white students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whites).

As part of the innovateNJ community of school districts that shares best practices, Springfield Public Schools spent last year analyzing test score data over a four - year period to see which students struggled and what types of questions they had trouble with, said Sharon Nagy - Johnson, director of instructional technology.

Recovery officials analyzed Wilson's test scores and found them unimpressive, to say the least: The school was in the bottom 10 percent of the city's elementary schools.

The mathematics achievement tabulations analyzed in this report are based on the U.S. Department of Education's National Longitudinal School - Level State Assessment Score Database.12 The NLSLSASD records in uniform fashion the scores on state achievement tests for more than 80,000 public schools (McLaughlin, 2005).

The Education Nation Scorecard for Schools Web site offers some helpful tools that allow you to easily analyze school and district test score data.

Additionally, what should be shocking to you as a parent is that state and national databases are being created in order to analyze and store students» test scores — your child's assessment results and your child's school attendance!

For my next step, I asked my school's STEM Director if he could provide a list of students who were designated as having «AP Potential» — a College Board tool which analyzes PSAT / NMSQT and state test scores to identify students likely to succeed on AP exams.

The report by Alan B. Krueger, a professor of economics and public policy, analyzed data presented last year by Harvard University Professor of Government Paul E. Peterson that found black students in the voucher schools scoring 5.5 points higher on standardized tests than their counterparts in public schools.

Using test score information required by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, the study analyzes the effects of segregation in more than 22,000 schools across the country that enroll more than 18 million students.

Presentations include: analyzing student - teacher perception to improve school culture and climate; dropping everything to write to increase standardized test scores; using hip - hop to engage students in the writing process; advising math, literacy and test prep boot camp to address fundamental skills; transforming culture through continuity, expectations, and organization; promoting courageous dialogues about the perceptions of race; and discovering bills and taxes through real - life applications.

This view also relies on far more than test score data to analyze the contributions of school - based factors to student outcomes.

Research on the performance of charter school students should not focus exclusively on standardized test scores but analyze other outcomes as well, including participation in advanced courses, graduation rates, and college attendance and completion.

The matching method used by Figlio also results in a limited number of voucher participants whose test scores could be analyzed; the study focuses on children who would have attended relatively high - performing program - eligible public schools.

Analyzed data from summative and formative assessments to identify students» needs to facilitate an after - school program to advance standardized test scores and support struggling students

Redfin was able to uncover these steals by analyzing home prices and test scores of elementary schools across the country.

For this study, we analyzed home prices compared to the test scores of elementary schools across the country.