Sentences with phrase «average test scores at»

Our main analyses control for students» age, gender, and the average test scores at their middle schools, but we obtain similar results from a simple comparison of lottery winners and losers, as we would expect given the use of the lottery.

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).

Interestingly, the public in 2007 was considerably less supportive of the practice of publishing the average test scores at each school than of requiring students to pass a test to move to the next grade or receive a high - school diploma.

As most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challenges.

Not exact matches

Branson was, and is, dyslexic, a learning disability at least partially responsible for his terrible standardized test scores and below - average grades.

To become a Top Pick, a car must excel at the publication's track tests, offer average or better reliability, perform effectively in government or industry crash tests, and return high owner - satisfaction scores in Consumer Reports» surveys.

Your first impulse would probably be to look at a couple of factors: the average test scores of the schools» current pupils and their socioeconomic background.

A University of London longitudinal study tested vocabulary skills of the same people at ages 16 and 42 and found at the younger age the average test score was 55 percent.

Beginning in 1986, the rule stipulated, entering freshmen would be eligible for scholarships only if they had achieved a grade point average of at least 2.0 in a college - preparatory core curriculum and, when it came to the two standard college entrance examinations, attained a minimum score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or 15 on the American College Testing Program's exam.

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.

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.

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

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 %.

At the end of their stays, their scores on test called the brief psychiatric rating scale had improved by an average of nearly 20 per cent.

It also showed that some of us are better at this than others, and that women on average score better on this test than men.

On a test designed to measure verbal and mathematical reasoning, for instance, men who were 65 to 70 years old at the beginning of the study saw their scores decline by 10 %, on average.

The average score for all 15 tests at the beginning was about 3000 and the final score was about 6000.

Just so you know how crazy that is, at the time your scores were averaged, so if I bombed the test I was going to have a real problem.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

Uccelli and Paez found that, on average, first - grade English narrative quality scores were higher among children who, at kindergarten scored higher on the English vocabulary test, used a greater number of distinct words in their English narrative, and had higher story structure scores on their Spanish narrative.

A compelling way to see this is to look at the relationship across schools between the average test - score gain students make between the 4th and 8th grade and our summary measure of their students» fluid cognitive ability at the end of that period (see Figure 2).

Not only do the lottery students have higher test scores than students at the eligibility cutoff, but their test scores exceed those of the average G&T student in the district.

It's a bit hard to say who's a Common Core state and who's not at this point, but if we take the average score change from 2015 to 2017 in the seven decidedly non-CCSS states in both subjects (Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia), we see that these states declined by about 1.4 points on average across tests.

One may be good at raising test scores, but only average at sending children to college.

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 school with many poor children, scoring at the 35th percentile, could be highly successful, though it tests below average.»

You wouldn't see it in most classrooms, you wouldn't know it by looking at slumping national test - score averages, but a cadre of American teenagers are reaching world - class heights in math — more of them, more regularly, than ever before.

Vallas had based his accountability system almost entirely on what percentage of all students scored at or above national averages on the norm - referenced Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

By comparing each student's gain to gains among students who performed at a similar level and would have experienced a similar, natural shift toward the average score, I can better separate legitimate test - score gains and losses from change associated with mean reversion.

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).

In both math and reading, the national test - score gap in 1965 was 1.1 standard deviations, implying that the average black 12th grader placed at the 13th percentile of the score distribution for white students.

Pathways program planners «look at such traditional criteria as grade point averages and test scores, but they also use interviews and writing samples to select people who are committed to teaching in urban schools.»

The evidence from South Carolina shows that voters do at least sometimes evaluate school board members on the basis of student learning trends as measured by average school test scores.

At northern Virginia's celebrated Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, students take an average of seven AP tests and do extremely well, earning scores of 3 or better on a mind - blowing 98 percent of the 3,357 AP exams that they sat for in 2010.

At northern Virginia's celebrated Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, for example, students take an average of seven AP tests — four are all but universal — and do extremely well, earning scores of 3 or better on a mind - blowing 98 percent of the 3,357 AP exams that they sat for in 2010.

At these schools, the population of entering 9th graders was less likely to be older than usual for their grade, had higher middle - school attendance rates, and had higher average 8th - grade test scores.

Students in the schools in this sample are more likely to have married parents (70.7 percent versus 61.7 percent statewide with third grade test scores), less likely to have fathers absent at the time of birth (9.8 percent versus 15.2 percent statewide), less likely to have Medicaid - funded births (a proxy for poverty at the time of birth, 37.7 percent versus 48.8 percent statewide), and have relatively better educated mothers (13.1 years of maternal education at the time of the child's birth, versus 12.5 years on average statewide).

The school board decided to require the two - hour reading block at 59 elementary and 12 middle schools where students average scores of 25 or less on the Stanford Achievement Test.

More than 90 percent of Southern students» scores on standardized tests in the 1986 - 87 school year were at or above national averages, a report by the Southern Regional Education Board has found.

Some thought the best evidence came from averaging all the test score results together, while others thought the scores of students at each grade level should be looked at separately.

Because of the way tracking was done (splitting the grade into two classes at the median baseline test score), the two students closest to the median within each school were assigned to classes where the average prior achievement of their classmates was very different.

Although the vast majority of programs are practically indistinguishable, there are exceptions — at most one or two per state, our results suggest — that really do produce teachers whose average impacts on test scores are significantly better than average.

The average combined reading and math test scores one year prior to the management change at schools assigned to for - profit and nonprofit entities were 0.39 and 0.13 standard deviations below the Philadelphia average, respectively, while the pre-intervention scores of the full set of 142 regular public schools were 0.19 standard deviations above the district average.

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.

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).

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

On the English language arts test, a school whose students scored at grade level but fell slightly from the year before and a school whose students averaged two years behind grade level and fell even more are both orange.

The school settled on the 70 percent average mastery floor after looking at the New York math and language tests, where proficiency generally is defined as a score of 70 percent correct answers.

Johanson et al. (2001) used comparison groups of mathematics and science students to look at student attitudes towards these subject areas; Shanahan et al. (2006) compared results on state tests in mathematics of students of teacher leaders with average student scores at the district and state levels.

Levin became so confident of his progress at Bastian Elementary School that he defied a principal's order to exempt several of his low - scoring Hispanic students from state tests, a popular technique for getting the school's average scores up.