Sentences with phrase «average test scores even»

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

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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.

Recognizing the educational challenges represented by children in poverty, who are not fluent in English or have other special needs, the Bloomberg administration — even as it relentlessly encouraged the growth of charter schools — built a citywide methodology designed to look past simple comparisons of average school scores on state tests.

Even if brain size accounts for just 10 to 20 percent of an IQ test score, it is possible to conjecture what kind of average scores would be made by a group of people with 30 percent larger brains.

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.

Those who do talk and drive regularly, however, scored worse on the tests, even though most described themselves as having above average multitasking skills.

«Even small amounts of unauthorised absence from school were associated with substantial falls in average Naplan (National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy) test scores.

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.

But, he says, even though King Middle School and Casco Bay High School score above the state average on standardized tests, there's no way to know how much of that success is due to the laptops, the expeditionary learning, the collaboration among teachers, or something else entirely.

Even as the numbers and diversity of students taking college admissions tests are rising, average scores on the tests are increasing.

Following years of below - average scores on the state achievement test, King students began outscoring the state average in six out of seven subjects in 1999, and they even moved into the top third in some subjects.

In other words, even though the average charter has a zero or negative impact on test scores, there are more charters with very large positive or very large negative test - score impacts than there are traditional public schools with such extreme outcomes.

Even though, on average, English teachers don't increase English language arts test scores as much as math teachers increase math scores, English teachers have as strong an effect on students» later lives.

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.

But we see similar patterns in charter schools too: a number of studies have shown that charter school students have a higher chance of high school graduation or college enrollment even when their test scores do not differ on average from their traditional public school counterparts.

Even at the individual student level, grades and test scores are averages.

Online students are even showing higher scores on standardized testing on their SATs and ACTs — the average score of traditional classroom learners fall in the 50th percentile, while the average score of online learners fall in the 59th percentile (3).

Yet even though the country's scores on international exams are above average, they have remained largely unchanged since the tests were first administered in 2000, and the percentage of students who were at least moderately proficient has decreased slightly in recent years.

LA Unified's scores on state standardized tests continue to fall below the state average, even though its students posted slightly better gains, according to results released Wednesday.

Standardized test scores also track with the district average even though the students could be expected to do worse, given the fact that 86 percent are considered «high risk» because they are economically disadvantaged, an English learner and / or a student with disabilities.

The test scores of students seeking to enter graduate education programs are similarly low and, on average, undergraduate education majors score even lower than the graduate education applicant pool as a whole.

This October, the Bridgespan Group published a study showing that students in AUSL elementary schools start third grade far behind national averages on tests, but their later scores rise to meet or even exceed national averages.

Even as education officials tout increases in test scores around Louisiana and in New Orleans, the only open - admissions school in Uptown New Orleans that exceeded state averages in any subject last year was New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School — and that was only in two of four subjects.

Studies published in the best economics and education journals have shown unequivocal evidence of excessive teaching to the test and drilling that produces inflated measures of students» growth in learning; cheating on tests that includes erasing incorrect answers or filling in missing responses; shifting of students out of classrooms or other efforts to exclude anticipated poor performers from testing, or alternatively, concentrating classroom teaching efforts on those students most likely to increase their test scores above a particular target, and other even more subtle strategies for increasing testing averages.

Because NYC schools risk receivership and even closure based on test scores, because state test scores are the variable used in awarding free SHSAT preparation, because the city publishes school - wide score averages in its own guidance materials for parents and because NYC School Reports literally center their definition of «great schools» on student test scores, test prep continues to feature prominently in city public school curriculum, beginning as early as kindergarten, no matter how much the mayor publicly claims to «de-emphasize» it.

Chicago test scores are still about 1 to 1 1/5 below the national average, and the achievement gaps remain even though Hispanic achievement grew faster than white students.

On Linpack, a test that measures CPU power, the Nexus 7 achieved a single - threaded score of 46.6 and a multi-threaded score of 128.26, way higher than the 38.5 and 51.5 tablet averages and even stronger than the 44.1 and 118.4 turned in by the Tegra 3 - powered Toshiba Excite 7.7.

However, when being tested for their temperament against other breeds of dogs, the pit bull actually was seen to score above average in having good temperament, even beating the temperament of the golden retriever in the process.