Not exact matches
For example, Ohio adjusts value - added calculations for high mobility, and Arizona
calculates the percentage of
students enrolled for a full
academic year and weighs measures of test score levels and
growth differently based on
student mobility and length of enrollment.
Were CORE numbers to be
calculated again next year, the scores would also include factors for
academic growth and the results of
student surveys.
Our
student growth metrics
calculate the
academic growth of your
students over time.
In the latest release of data, we have a sense of how much progress
students show on state assessments from one year to the next (as it's been two years since the last time we had
growth data, here's a quick reminder on how it is
calculated: a
student's performance on the test is compared to her «
academic peers» — other
students who had the same test score she had the previous year, resulting in the individual's
student growth percentile.
Lawmakers threw out the model state officials used to
calculate last year's grades during the last legislative session, rejecting the notion that state officials should compare a
student's
academic growth to the
growth of her peers in determining a school's grade.
[1] As it has been two years since the last time we had
growth data, here's a quick reminder on how it is
calculated: a
student's performance on the test is compared to her «
academic peers» — other
students who had the same test score she had the previous year, resulting in the individual's
student growth percentile.
In a recent study, we
calculated the consequences for economic
growth, lifetime earnings, and tax revenue of improving educational outcomes and narrowing educational achievement gaps in the United States.1 Among other results, we found that if the United States were able to raise the math and science PISA test scores of the bottom three quarters of U.S.
students so that they matched the test scores of the top quarter of U.S. kids (and thereby raised the overall U.S.
academic ranking to third best among the OECD countries), U.S. GDP would be 10 percent larger in 35 years.