Sentences with phrase «annual gain scores»

Our use of annual gain scores provides an estimate of treatment effects based on the extent to which students at each school do better or worse than would be expected, given their initial test scores.

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Moreover, the gain - score results generated from the annual testing program would provide valuable feedback to educators regarding which LD students are responding favorably to interventions tailored to the special needs of LD students and which are not (and therefore may not really be LD).

In the end, our analysis of charter school effectiveness is based on the experiences of only those students for whom we observe annual gains (whether positive or negative) in test scores at least once in a charter school and at least once in a traditional public school.

A handful of school districts and states — including Dallas, Houston, Denver, New York, and Washington, D.C. — have begun using student achievement gains as indicated by annual test scores (adjusted for prior achievement and other student characteristics) as a direct measure of individual teacher performance.

In the state's annual reports on test score gains, the researcher has repeatedly taken note of the lower average income for scholarship students.

If we think we can know which schools of choice are good and ought to be expanded and which are bad and ought to be closed based primarily on annual test score gains, we are sadly mistaken.

The analyses (Exhibit IIB and IID below) in the report clearly represent the average annual NAEP score gains.

Based on Chetty and his colleagues» results for how 2nd and 3rd grade test scores affect adult earnings, this test score gain for males would be expected to increase average annual adult earnings at ages 25 to 27 by a little over $ 900 or 5 %.

Some knowledge gains At the same time, however, the third annual «Survey of Consumer Knowledge About Credit Scores» found that consumers are slowly gaining more knowledge about credit sScores» found that consumers are slowly gaining more knowledge about credit scoresscores.