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.
Not exact matches
According to Read to Succeed Executive Director Anne Ryan, students who miss 10 percent of kindergarten and first grade
scored an
average of 60 points below
similar students with good attendance on third grade reading
tests.
In a series of
tests to determine how false information can manipulate memory formation, the researchers discovered that subjects with highly superior autobiographical memory logged
scores similar to those of a control group of subjects with
average memory.
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.
Standardized
test scores for these schools are high compared to the national
average and very high compared to schools with
similar students.
Across nine
tested schools in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn, Success Academy students
scored on
average 39 points higher than their peers attending schools with
similar economic needs.
Charter middle and high schools produce
test -
score achievement gains that are, on
average,
similar to those of traditional public schools.
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.
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.
«If the social class distribution of the United States were
similar to that of top -
scoring countries [Korea, Finland and Canada], the
average test score gap between the United States and these top -
scoring countries would be cut in half in reading and by one - third in math,» they announce.
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.
A
similar study using data on students in Philadelphia found that living farther from school increased absences and resulted in lower grade point
averages and
test scores.
The inclusion of larger percentages of students with disabilities and limited English proficient students in the 2009 Virginia
testing samples did not significantly impact achievement as
average scores, and proficiency levels for the commonwealth's fourth and eighth graders were
similar to 2007.
And while that might not seem like a lot, Richards noted that «on
average, displaced students have significantly flatter growth trajectories than their non-displaced peers,» meaning that displaced students»
test scores progressed at a slower rate than
similar students who didn't experience a closure.
Line up the towns and cities in Connecticut by
average annual income and separately by
average test scores, and those lists would look very
similar.
The hours of sleep correlated with highest
average test scores are quite
similar across the math and reading
tests.