Sentences with phrase «average test scores»

Want to know the best rated schools based on average test scores for basic academic skills?

«Back then,» we typically evaluated schools based on average test scores alone.

The relationship is apparent even among twins; heavier - born twins have higher average test scores in third through eighth grade than their lighter - born twin.

The hours of sleep correlated with highest average test scores are quite similar across the math and reading tests.

It used to be that kids with below average test scores applied to charter schools.

In sum, our results confirm that using average test scores from a single year to judge school quality is unacceptable from a fairness and equity perspective.

Importantly, we also found that average test scores do not change dramatically across a relatively large range of reported sleep hours.

For us, being recognized as the highest performing charter school in CT means so much more than above average test scores and achievement results.

The typical gap in average test scores between their current and former school is also much smaller for African - American and Hispanic teachers who have switched schools.

After four years at the charter school, eighth - graders showed average test score gains in math equal to an additional year and a half of school, compared with district students.

The law required that states report more than just average test scores.

A typical research question in education might be whether average test scores differ for students who use a new math game and those who don't.

The figure also shows how schools serving low - income students are punished by accountability systems based on average test scores.

Average test scores for girls increased slightly in both grade levels, drawing to within one point of the average scores for boys.

Indeed, researchers using this value - added measure approach have sometimes found low - income schools have a high number of teachers who teach students with below - average test score gains.

Just 20 percent of the public oppose publishing average test scores at the school level, with another 20 percent expressing neither support nor opposition (Q. 6).

For example, in a school with three equal - sized 4th - grade classrooms, the replacement of a teacher with a VA estimate of 0.05 standard deviations with one with a VA estimate of 0.35 standard deviations should increase average test scores among 4th - grade students by 0.1 standard deviations.

High school lottery winners in the high - risk group and all middle school lottery winners transferred to schools featuring modest increases in standard measures of school quality, such as average test scores and higher proportions of teachers with more than 3 years of experience.

In 15 years of increasing average test scores, black - white and Hispanic - white student achievement gaps continue to close, and Asian students are pulling away from whites in both math and reading achievement.

Demographic - adjusted average test scores also do a worse job at identifying schools where students learn the least, with the average growth rates of bottom - 15 % schools based on this metric closer to that of the average score measure than the growth - based measure.

Moreover, if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of low performers in countries with average test scores similar to the United States.

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)

Additionally, HGSE does not average test scores — we look at each set of scores separately.

Both groups of schools saw an increase in the average math and reading scores during the first two years of the bonus program; treatment - group schools, however, did not experience a statistically significant improvement in average test scores relative to the schools in the control group.

These «value - added» measures are subject to some of the same problems, but by focusing on what students learn over the course of the year, they are a significant improvement over a simple average test score (or, worse yet, the percentage of students that score above an arbitrary «proficiency» threshold).

We address this question by calculating the ERI effect on student achievement for schools that are similar in the percentage of students from low - income families, the percentage of students who are white, and pretreatment average test scores.

There are also relatively homogeneous schools in Florida with both higher and lower average test scores overall that we exclude from this analysis.)

Reardon argues that states that rate and reward schools based on average test scores rather than the growth in scores are using the wrong metric.

To construct this figure, we first define the top 5 percent of teachers as «high VA» and the bottom 5 percent as «low VA.» Figure 1 displays average test scores for cohorts of students in the years before and after a high - VA teacher arrives.

(In the current study, charter school applicants do in fact have higher than average test scores even before they enroll.

Let denote the vector formed from the outcome residuals for classroom j in school i. Components of are the residuals based on outcomes such as classroom average test score (ts), the fraction of the classroom attending college at age 20 (co), and the average earnings of the classroom at age 28 (ea).

Growth - based measures and demographic - adjusted average test scores identify similar types of schools as low - performing, as shown by the fact that the red dots (low - income schools) are spread out in the figure, as opposed to clustered on the left - hand side.

CHEYENNE — Overall, Wyoming's fourth and eighth grade students in 2017 continue to outperform national average test scores in reading and mathematics on the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card or NAEP.

Schools that had higher than average test scores earned As and Bs, schools with Bs were the ones that showed the most improvement in the last 4 years.

Considering last year's average test score ranks Oklahoma at 49th in the nation for Pre-K through 12 - grade education, we can literally hear the chains clanging against the floor as the new arrivals — former students — stroll into Oklahoma prisons.

Another study revealed that students using the Test Taking Strategy improved average test scores in inclusive classes from 57 % to 71 % (Hughes & Schumaker, 1991).

Received an above average test score allowing me to take a classified job.

From screaming children going ballistic to horrible average test scores this school is a wretched mess!

Newspapers print rank - ordered lists of schools organized by average test score, as if somehow that tells us about school quality.

Further, instead of merely using proficiency rates, which encourage schools to focus on the «bubble kids» (i.e., those just above or below the proficiency threshold) states should use average test scores (like Nebraska) or a «performance index» (like Ohio).

Late - term infants outperformed full - term infants in all three cognitive dimensions (higher average test scores in elementary and middle school, a 2.8 percent higher probability of being gifted, and a 3.1 percent reduced probability of poor cognitive outcomes) compared to full - term infants.

School District U46 had below average test scores on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the SAT.

Average test scores among all clinicians were 0.42 for race (indicates moderate preference) and 0.71 for social class (indicates strong preference).

This impact on average test scores is commensurate in magnitude with what we would have predicted given the increase in average teacher value added for the students in that grade.

This approach shows that the percentage of an elementary school's students enrolled in bilingual education is significantly and negatively related to a school's average test score for English Learners in both reading and math, even after accounting for the characteristics of its students.