Sentences with phrase «average achievement»

In over half of the states, there are no more than three districts that reach average achievement levels in the upper third.

In 17 states, there is not a single traditional district with average achievement in the upper third relative to our global comparison group.

Focusing on the additional variation in school average achievement gains around principal transitions reduces the magnitude of the estimates.

Recruiting difficulties have been more severe in schools with the lowest average achievement levels.

In fact, the project's effect is strong enough to raise overall average achievement by 7 percent, despite the fact that it covers only 20 percent of the science standards.

Students interested in education have below - average achievement on the ACT, particularly in math and science.

The gains are large when compared to other possible policy interventions, such as the effects of attending a school with higher average achievement levels or enrolling in a charter school.

The results of this analysis confirm that teachers are more likely to leave districts with low average achievement scores.

Students who reported almost never being bullied had average achievement more than 30 score points higher than those who reported being bullied almost weekly.

To understand how statistical adjustments work, consider the comparisons of two teachers, A and B, who teach students having different prior average achievement.

Secondly, they compared a school's average achievement before and after a «high value - added» teacher had left the school.

When we create groups based on demographic characteristics, we find that some groups have higher average achievement levels than others.

In 17 states, not a single district has average achievement in the upper third relative to the global comparison group.

The first displays the well - known relationship between family income and student achievement: Students from more affluent families have higher average achievement levels.

In choosing schools, at - risk students place less weight on academic indicators, and low performing students are more likely to attend a school with low average achievement.

What might the economic impact of a 0.08 standard deviation improvement in average achievement nationwide be?

This is a very large figure, perhaps unbelievably large, implying that a principal at the 75th percentile of this effectiveness measure shows average achievement gains of 0.11 standard deviations (relative to the average principal), while one at the 25th percentile shows average losses of 0.15 standard deviations.

It will also include information about the proposed new way of measuring school performance, based on average achievement across eight subjects including English and maths.

There are ABOVE AVERAGE achievements that my teams have accomplished in the past that can be discussed during an interview, along with my ideals, standards and goals...

Obfuscating distinctions — whether through grade inflation or grade elimination — helps students in schools where average achievement is high and hurts those where that average is low.

Even this reduced estimate is substantial, however, indicating that a 1 - standard - deviation increase in principal effectiveness raises school average achievement by slightly more than 0.10 standard deviations.

• Suburban Chicagoland: In 229 school districts in suburban Chicagoland, low - income enrollment rose by an average of 22 percentage points, but average achievement declined by an average of only 1 point in reading and 3 points in math.

The average job switcher moving from one district to another moved to a district whose average achievement was 0.07 standard deviations higher on the TAAS than the district the teacher left.

And Massachusetts's charter schools do this much better than its district schools, where achievement gaps still yawn, despite the commonwealth's strong average achievement.

The results of the exams, which tests high schoolers in more than 60 countries, showed that U.S. high - school students demonstrated just average achievement in reading and science.

Unstable school finances, solidly average achievement levels and a slowly emerging record of innovation make Oregon a dark horse in this race.

Student scores on the tests, either fell slightly or remained stagnant this year, indicating stalled achievement and large likelihood of merely average achievement in a student's first year of college.

Consequently, the loss of a teacher with high value - added would not affect average achievement, since removing that teacher would have no change on the cohorts, and since cohort - to - cohort changes in achievement would be smaller than that predicted by value - added.

• Central and Southern Illinois (south of Interstate 80): In 421 school districts in central and southern Illinois, low - income enrollment rose by an average of 19 percentage points; average achievement fell by 9 percentage points in reading and 7 points in math.

The 1998 Tennessee statewide average achievement gain in each subject and grade.

A teacher can give special attention to a few who come to school with challenges that impede learning, but if an entire class has such problems, average achievement inevitably declines.

The GRC compares academic achievement in math and reading across all grades of student performance on state tests with average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered economic peers of the U.S..

For example, white supremacists have argued that Negroes are intellectually inferior to whites, and have submitted as evidence the lower average achievement of American Negro children in intelligence tests.

We therefore employ a third approach that gauges the amount of variation in principal effectiveness directly by measuring the additional fluctuation in school average achievement gains when a new principal assumes leadership, as compared to typical fluctuations from year to year.

PISA also shows that girls in Australian schools also have lower average achievement in maths where they are, on average, approximately one - third of a school year behind male students.

When examined in this light, the impacts of NCLB — which the NRC estimates at a 0.08 standard deviation improvement in average achievement nationwide — are far greater than suggested by the NRC committee, which concludes that test - based accountability under NCLB had minimal impact and probably should be abandoned.

The provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.

If this indicates that disadvantaged pupils are genuinely more responsive to resource - based interventions, then targeting resources at these pupils will lead to higher average achievement, as well as more equitable outcomes.

According to the report, TIMSS 2015: A first look at Australia's results, released by the Australian Council for Educational Research, average achievement levels in secondary schools continue to slide in comparison with performances in many other countries.

Although it's productive for one teacher to shadow one student, it can be even richer for one or several teachers together to shadow four different learners — for example, two low - performing learners, one who performs above grade level, and one with average achievement.

However, for Attainment 8 — which measures average achievement in GCSE across eight subjects — there will be no change: the attainment score gap of 11 points in 2017 will remain in 2021.

You'll point to top 4 being godly, but you miss the fact top 4 is an average achievement with our resources.

that has and will tarnish his average achievements on the field..........

For those who want to know roughly what schools are teaching: Level 3 — the beginning of Key Stage 1 — is usually started at the age of about 7 - 8 in schools; level 4 is started around age 9 and is the average achievement level expected in SATS Key Stage 2 tests at the end of the primary school years (age 11).

«Over the last decade we have made substantial progress in narrowing the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest - the average achievement for those pupils has risen more sharply than for others,» she claimed.

Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap between racial groups seen at the start of the study.