Sentences with phrase «average test performance»

They examined a variety of factors, such as student gender, age, health, socioeconomic status, education of parents, whether the school was urban or suburban, the number of years of experience among teachers, the school's average test performance and the rate of free - or reduced - price lunch program participation.

High - stakes student accountability is more popular than the simple practice of publishing the average test performance of each school's students.

By contrast, Krueger and Zhu concluded, «The provision of vouchers in New York City probably had no more than a trivial effect on the average test performance of participating black students.»

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At 1,400 ppm, for instance, the test subjects» performance dropped by 50 percent on average, and in some cases by much more.

According to testing by LaptopMag.com, the Spectre outperforms the 2 - in - 1 category average in graphics performance by a wide margin.

In the November 2013 version of his paper entitled «The Real - Life Performance of Market Timing with Moving Average and Time - Series Momentum Rules», Valeriy Zakamulin tests realistic long - only implementations of these strategies with estimated trading frictions.

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

Cherokee County School District students for the second consecutive year exceeded State averages on the 2016 Georgia Milestones End - of - Grade and End - of - Course tests, which are used to assess the mastery of Georgia Performance Standards.

The Academy also noted that its students» performance on state tests in math and English Language Arts runs above both the state average and that of the Hempstead public schools.

These findings build on recent research by Cotner and Ballen that showed that on average, women's exam performance is adversely affected by test anxiety.

America's apparently mediocre national averages on international tests reflect not uniformly poor performance, Eye argues, but rather the enormous diversity of our school population, which exceeds that of nearly every other competing country.

«Their point is that the average performance of U.S. students on these comparative international tests is not a meaningful number,» Teitelbaum says.

The average performance (from 20 administrations of the exercise) of the two groups was compared and was also correlated with performance in established neuropsychological tests.

Average performance also correlated significantly with performance in Functional Cognitive Assessment Scale (FUCAS), Test of Everyday Attention (TEA), and Rey Osterrieth Complex Figure test (ROCTest of Everyday Attention (TEA), and Rey Osterrieth Complex Figure test (ROCtest (ROCFT).

Do you believe, this is what I believe and I could be wrong and you have more experience in this than I do so I'm testing my hypothesis with an expert, that as you add these toxins, like if you were to say on an average day someone with no toxins doesn't ever drop a word for their memory but on a day or a week or when their mercury levels hit one out of 10, maybe they drop one word today, and when they're five out of 10, they drop four words a day, there's a gradual decline in cognitive performance or physical performance before we hit the «Oh my god I feel crappy all the time, I have chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and I'm a zombie?»

After an average sleep loss of approximately 55 minutes for 6 nights, a neurobehavioral test showed that performance of ADHD children worsened from the subclinical to the clinical range of inattention on 4 of 6 measures, which included reaction time and omission errors.

Drawing from math test scores from PISA 2009 in which the United States performed lower than the OECD average, the report argues that while demand for STEM labor is predicted to increase over the next few decades, a shortage of STEM labor in the United States, along with inadequate performance in science, math, and reading compared to other countries, endangers U.S. future competitiveness and innovation.

NAPLAN has been used as a benchmark for student performance against national averages since 2008, but just how effective is the test?

When in 2010 The Los Angeles Times published individual teacher performances in similar tests on the rubric of «least effective», «less effective», «average», «more effective» and «most effective», one teacher, Rigoberto Ruelas, took his own life after he was judged «least effective».

NCLB required that states test students in math and reading each year, that average student performance be publicized for every school, and that schools with persistently low test scores face an escalating series of sanctions.

Since the overall cohort and each tested subgroup were on average quite large, these schools could only escape a Low - Performing rating through broad improvement in test performance.

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..

If more lower - ranked seniors aspire to college and take the test, this could indicate better performance by schools, but still depress the average.»

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

States also are proposing to average several years of test data or to look at multiple years of performance to reduce the possibility of misjudging a school.

Despite the higher average education level of their parents, charter school students exhibit lower levels of performance on end - of - grade tests in both reading and math.

The proportion of students receiving a free school lunch, the proportion of students who are white British, student performance on the age - 11 test in the prior year, and the school's inspection rating from the previous inspection round are all similar, on average, in the treatment and control schools.

A student of average motivation (he understands the importance of academic performance and wants to do well in school) has set a goal to get a good grade on an upcoming test.

This study concluded that «students who received assignments requiring more challenging intellectual work also achieved greater than average gains on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills in reading and mathematics, and demonstrated higher performance in reading, mathematics, and writing on the Illinois Goals Assessment Program.

It shows a clear positive association between the variation in country - average test scores and the variation in teacher performance pay that can not be attributed to the other factors included in the analysis.

Unlike conventional colleges and universities, Western Governors doesn't require students to spend a set number of hours in a classroom, average out their performance on assignments and tests, then hand out letter grades and credits.

We estimate that the average growth in English language arts scores due to changing from a fixed mindset to a neutral mindset (a one standard deviation change) is between 0.03 and 0.02 standard deviations in test performance.

While the choice sector as a whole looks pretty good on test scores and other measures, the averages mask poor performance from a significant minority of choice and charter schools.

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 1).

One full standard deviation (an effect size of 1.0) is roughly equal to the average difference in test score performance between a 4th grader and an 8th grader.

This was the second time Australian students participated in PIRLS and the results indicated that the average reading performance of Year 4 students had improved significantly since students were last tested in 2011.

A recent survey of large urban districts nationwide found that students take an average of 112 mandated assessments during the K — 12 years; the survey discovered no correlation between mandated testing time and student performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, whose aggregate results are reported via «the Nation's Report Card.»

In the case of the SGP approach, this reflects the fact that low - SES students make less progress, on average, than high - SES students, even after conditioning on prior test performance.

Members of these groups were told about either the state ranking of the average student in the respondent's district on standardized tests of achievement or the national ranking of the performance of the average student in the district.

A more direct measure of a country's human capital is the performance of students on tests in math and science, something that might be called the average level of «cognitive skills» among those entering a country's work force.

By converting the Timss scores to the scores used in the key stage 2 maths tests, known as Sats, the report estimates that to match the performance of pupils in the top five countries — Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan — 90 per cent of children in England would need to reach the expected standard in the English Sats maths test, with an average scaled score of 107.

If one country's test - score performance was 0.5 standard deviations higher than another country during the 1960s — a little less than the current difference in the scores between such top - performing countries as Finland and Hong Kong and the United States — the first country's growth rate was, on average, one full percentage point higher annually over the following 40 - year period than the second country's growth rate.

If we then turn to the labor market, a student with achievement (as measured by test performance in high school) that is one standard deviation above average can later in life expect to take in 10 to 15 percent higher earnings per year.

When we performed the analysis again, this time also including the average test - score performance of a country in our model, we found that countries with higher test scores experienced far higher growth rates.

We used performance on 12 of these standardized tests as rough measures of the average level of cognitive skill in a given country.

Test results showed that the lower - performing students made the most gains, while the average students performance were the same.

Standardized test scores allow parents to compare the performance of their own child and the average performance of their child's school against the performance of students in the same grade in other schools around the state and nationwide.

In «The End of Average» Todd Rose argues the metrics we use to assess success — test scores, performance reviews, and grades — are antiquated and doing more harm than good.»

On average, black students typically score one standard deviation below white students on standardized tests — roughly the difference in performance between the average 4th grader and the average 8th grader.