Sentences with phrase «average test scores relative»

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.

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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).

We observe that there is virtually no relationship between the relative affluence of the overall student body of the school and the SES test score gap in that school: schools serving primarily high - SES students and those serving primarily low - SES students have the same average SES test score gaps (around 0.8 standard deviations) in both third and fifth grades.

On one side, parents frustrated with the Payson Unified School District say they would welcome the K - 8 charter school, with a network of campuses with some 6,000 students statewide, higher than average test scores on most of its campuses, uniforms, new buildings and the relative freedom from state regulation charter schools enjoy.

In the pilot, state test score gains in a particular class were analyzed and scored relative to the student's predicted growth based on past scores, and relative to the average gains seen across the district and within different groups of the student population.

Reforms raised relative funding in the low - income districts by about $ 500 per pupil, which implies that increasing funding by $ 1,000 per pupil — about 10 percent of average funding over the period — raises test scores by 0.16 standard deviations.