Sentences with phrase «average achievement levels»

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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).

Second, we examine whether the average achievement level of the new students is higher or lower than that of the students who enter the school in the normal entry grade.

In particular, we use existing research about how much a high level of achievement boosts the earnings of an individual worker, combined with our new measures of the average achievement levels of workers in each state, to gauge the contribution of differences in achievement to differences in income levels across states.

Consider the performance description for students scoring 350 on the NAEP mathematics scale - a score well above the average achievement level:

Schools will be required to publish details of their pupils» progress, which will be measured against the average achievement level of all children in England in the same year group.

We find differences in the average achievement levels, the racial composition, and the socioeconomic composition of classrooms within schools.

According to the report, not only are fewer students interested in becoming an educator, but those who are interested have lower - than - average achievement levels, particularly in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) areas.

The trend analysis data for a given school shows how effective the school is in maintaining the average achievement levels of students at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile achievement levels for two different cohorts of students — a group that was enrolled from 1996 - 1998 and a group enrolled from 2003 - 2005.

Conditions associated with these qualities of the workplace include the number of periods taught, the number of different preparations required, the proportion of a teacher's classes that he / she feels competent to teach, the total number of students in classes and the average achievement levels of students in class.