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Using MIND's visual math instructional software in 36 of the 38 school district's elementary schools, the district's 25,000 K - 5 students have closed a 16 point gap and now match the California state average math scores on the 2011 state tests, according to the institute.

Not exact matches

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign reported in 2013 that on average, students who eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests; when combined, these factors translate into a student being twenty percent more likely to graduate high school.

New York City's new schools chancellor pledged to boost training for elementary math teachers on Tuesday, after a national test found a drop in average math scores for the city's fourth - graders.

At PS 137, only 11 % of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders scored «proficient» or above on the state math tests, whereas the citywide average was 38 %.

U.S. students typically score below the average of OECD nations on international math and science tests.

On the practice college entrance exams, I did very well in math but scored below average in the verbal and writing sections.

In addition to a significant jump in math test scores, students receiving tutoring and mentoring failed two fewer courses per year on average than students who did not participate, and their likelihood of being «on track» for graduation rose by nearly one - half.

Before classes even started, my academic advisor suggested that I might want to choose something easier than physics and astronomy, despite coming in with an A + average in high school and scoring in the top 5 percent on the math assessment.

In 2005 — 06, depending on the grade, a student's math scale score had to rise by an average of 32 points to go from the top of the Performance Level 1 range («failing» or not meeting learning standards) to the bottom of the Performance Level 3 range («proficient» or meeting learning standards).

In fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schools.

Our results indicate that, on average, New York City's charter schools raise their 3rd through 8th graders» math achievement by 0.09 of a standard score and reading achievement by 0.04 of a standard score, compared with what would have happened had they remained in traditional public schools (see Figure 3).

We used statistical techniques similar to the one we employed to examine changes in average scores to assess the effect of the bonus program on the percentage of students achieving proficiency on math and reading exams.

As can be seen in Figure 1a, states with higher percentages of students from low - income families report lower average scale scores in 8th - grade math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Students with multiple teachers scored, on average, slightly lower in both math and reading relative to students with one teacher.

On average across middle and high school math, TFA teachers out - performed veteran teachers by 0.07 standard deviations, the equivalent of 2.6 additional months of instruction or helping a student move from the 27th to the 30th percentile on a normal distribution of test scoreOn average across middle and high school math, TFA teachers out - performed veteran teachers by 0.07 standard deviations, the equivalent of 2.6 additional months of instruction or helping a student move from the 27th to the 30th percentile on a normal distribution of test scoreon a normal distribution of test scores.

Students who scored in the top quarter of the sixth - grade math exam averaged anywhere from 19 to 26 on the high school ACT math test; the variations correlated with the effectiveness scores of their high school math teachers.

The large, positive effect that a prevalence of girls has on boys» math scores can not plausibly be explained solely by girls» effect on average peer achievement in math.

A translation of the results finds that being surrounded by peers who score 1 point lower on average has the following effects: it lowers a Hispanic student's own score by 0.439 points in reading and 0.587 points in math, and it lowers a white student's own score by 0.176 points in math.

Do I think that charter schools on average do a better job moving reading and math scores?

Schools that did not bring their average reading and math scores above a certain level were put on probation and threatened with a series of interventions.

After two years in a middle school, on average a student who entered in the 7th grade will score 0.10 standard deviations in math and 0.09 standard deviations in English below what we would expect if he had gone to a K — 8 school.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

A translation of the results shows that being surrounded by peers who score 1 point lower on average has the following effects: it lowers a black student's own score by 0.676 points in reading and 0.402 points in math; it lowers a Hispanic student's own score by 0.266 points in reading and 0.185 points in math; and it lowers a white student's own score by 0.168 points in reading and 0.092 points in math.

If the translated effects were taken literally, one would conclude that being surrounded by peers whose math scores were on average 1 point higher would raise a student's own score by 1.7 to 6.8 points, depending on the grade.

The reality, according to the figures on the graph, is that the average English score increased by 4 percent (from 229 to 239), the math scores by less than that (from 228 to 237).

The sum of the reliable evidence indicates that, on average, private school choice increases the reading scores of choice users by about 0.27 standard deviations and their math scores by 0.15 standard deviations.

On average, the 4th - grade math and reading test scores of KIPP late entrants were 0.15 to 0.16 standard deviations above the district average, putting them 0.19 standard deviations above the scores of students who enrolled in the normal intake grade.

Conversely, late entrants at district schools had dramatically lower average 4th - grade test scores than on - time enrollees: 0.30 and 0.32 standard deviations lower in reading and math, respectively (in both cases, 0.29 standard deviations below the district average).

For more than three decades, the United States has been scoring below the international average among participating nations on tests of math and science achievement.

She said: «I can't say definitely based on my research but we do know that teacher expectation and assessments can have a longterm effect on pupil progress, because it can affect their interaction, in terms of the groups they are put in... If you are an average - scoring boy from a lower income family, or an average - scoring girl in maths, and you are placed in a lower set then that is going to potentially depress your longterm trajectory.»

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

Florida's scholarship students are among the most disadvantaged — the average household income of scholarship families was only $ 24,067 this year, 4.5 percent above the poverty line — yet on math and read tests, they still score near the national median among all students from all income ranges.

But on TIMMS, only eight nations have a higher average math scale score among eighth graders.

Students scored 54 points better in math and 57 in science (on a range with an international average of 500 and an international standard deviation of 100) when they had more than 200 books at home compared with students who had fewer than 10.

On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portioOn average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portioon the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portioon the math portion.

On average, students in countries with performance - related pay score 24.8 percent of a standard deviation higher on the PISA math test; in reading the effect is 24.3 percent of a standard deviation; and in science it is 15.4 percent (see Figure 1On average, students in countries with performance - related pay score 24.8 percent of a standard deviation higher on the PISA math test; in reading the effect is 24.3 percent of a standard deviation; and in science it is 15.4 percent (see Figure 1on the PISA math test; in reading the effect is 24.3 percent of a standard deviation; and in science it is 15.4 percent (see Figure 1).

On TIMSS, the average score of U.S. fourth - graders in math put them behind students in 10 other systems: Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Russia, Northern Ireland and Ireland, Norway, and the Flemish portion of Belgium.

Given the same initial effectiveness as a traditionally certified teacher, an uncertified third - year teacher's students would score 3 percent of a standard deviation higher, on average, in math.

Taking the average of students» scores on math and literacy exams, we find that students in tracking schools scored 0.14 standard deviations higher than students in nontracking schools overall.

Specifically, we calculate growth for schools based on math scores while taking into account students» prior performance in both math and communication arts; characteristics that include race, gender, free or reduced - price lunch eligibility (FRL), English - language - learner status, special education status, mobility status, and grade level; and school - wide averages of these student characteristics.

Specifically, the average teacher's students score 0.05 standard deviations higher on end - of - year math tests during the evaluation year than in previous years, although this result is not consistently statistically significant across our different specifications.

Given the same initial effectiveness as a traditionally certified teacher, our results indicate that, after two years on the job, a teaching fellow's students would score 3 percent of a standard deviation higher on average in math and reading.

The state's overall academic performance lags national averages, with its students scoring in the bottom quartile in both reading and math on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress results.

In total, programs have had no significant effect on average math scores.

The average fourth - grade NAEP math score in 2015 was 240 (on a scale of 0 to 500), the same level as in 2009 and down from 242 in 2013.

For a classroom, there is an average score based on a math or reading test given near the end of the school year.

Massachusetts» urban charter school students are drawn from a population in which middle school students generally score below the average on state - wide math and English tests.

Overall, non-Hispanic white students scored 0.27 standard deviations above the average on the math exam in the fall of kindergarten, while black students fell 0.36 standard deviations below the average, yielding a raw black - white gap of 0.63 standard deviations.