Sentences with phrase «comparison schools»

Poor students in pilot schools were 15 percent less likely to be chronically absent, relative to similar students at comparison schools.

Parental consent was received for 124 children from program schools and 121 children from comparison schools, to form the original sample of 245 students.

Intervention school students began the trial with significantly lower levels of science capital than both the national average and a set of carefully selected comparison schools.

To identify the effect of treatment, we calculate the difference between average annual test - score gains made by students at treated and comparison schools before and after the intervention began.

Whereas the schools identified for closure experienced an increase of 6.5 percentage points relative to their projected graduation rate, the other low - performing comparison schools experienced an increase of 1.4 percentage points.

The study includes all students in the 9th or 12th grade in the inclusive STEM high schools and comparable students in samples of same - state comparison schools.

By contrast, the graduation rate was flat at comparison schools.

Following a multi-year implementation, Catapult Learning schools outperformed their matched comparison schools in each subject area.

Elsbeth's efforts help explain how TYWLS was able to beat a set of comparison schools on the state math test by 19 % in terms of the change in the percentage of students scoring proficient from the 2013 - 14 school year (the baseline year) to the 2014 - 15 school year (the first year PowerMyLearning partnered with TYWLS).

PowerMyLearning schools outperformed comparison schools in math proficiency by an average of 7 percentage points each year.

Despite these challenges, the students in schools led by NISL - trained leaders caught up to and surpassed the students in comparison schools as a result of the NISL EDP.

A subsequent three - year study showed clear advantages for Core Knowledge over demographically matched comparison schools on nearly all literacy measures among low - SES learners (full disclosure: I worked for the Core Knowledge Foundation from 2008 — 2012).

While phase - out cohort students did better with respect to some of these outcomes than expected, based on their background characteristics and the prior performance trend at their school, students attending comparison schools also registered gains.

In Liberia, 68 % of girls in Bridge PSLs (Compared with only 42 % at local comparison schools) who couldn't read a single word at the beginning of the year, could read by the end of the year.

From the NPPC report, I pulled info on the defined contribution plan offered in their Pennsylvania comparison school, the Chester Charter School for the Arts.

To evaluate the pilot Demos observed five lessons, conducted a tracked pre - and post - survey over 12 months for pupils at participating schools and nearby comparison schools where the lessons were not given, and held focus groups with pupils and teachers in participating schools during the Autumn term of 2016.

However, a problem could arise if achievement had already been increasing more quickly in NLP schools than in comparison schools even before the policy's implementation.

Meanwhile, average proficiency rates in a matched set of comparison schools increased by lesser amounts, 9 percentage points in reading and 13 percentage points in math (although the Edison advantage is statistically significant only in math).»

Also, where proficiency rates in comparison schools tended to decline over time, Library Project schools tended to maintain or increase literacy skill proficiency rates.

The Milwaukee study compared 24 schools led by NISL - graduate principals to 42 comparison schools led by non-NISL graduates from 2010 to 2014.

An additional comparison school sample of 13 small schools of choice with a focus other than STEM is being used to help disentangle the effects of a STEM - focused program from those of small school size and school choice.

We also wish to thank the staff and students of the IMPACT and comparison schools for their cooperation.

Scores of students in the pilot schools improved, whereas those of students in comparison schools decreased.

By the second year of implementation, Diplomas Now schools differed from comparison schools in how much teachers collaborated in interdisciplinary teams, teacher professional development, and the use of data to identify struggling students.

The student achievement data were used to analyze the achievement of WSI participating schools compared to state averages and a sample of matched comparison schools.

After taking into account all these characteristics, schools using the literacy hour outperformed comparison schools by 2.4 percentile points in reading and by 3.2 percentage points in the share of students achieving level 4 in English at Key Stage 2.

Relative to students who attended comparison schools, sixth grade math scores increased 0.484 σ -LRB-.097) in one year.

A recent study by AIR found that students in high schools that were part of networks associated with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Deeper Learning Community of Practice performed better than similar students in comparison schools on a range of measures.

Most states now have such information in their longitudinal databases, but no published studies have used these data to compare the achievement growth of students at virtual schools with demographically similar students at carefully selected comparison schools.

In this quasi-experimental, proof - of - concept study, AIR investigated whether schools in the Deeper Learning Network achieve better student outcomes than local comparison schools, and found that the answer is yes.

Additionally, 54 percent of principals at innovation schools had fewer than three years of experience while 38 percent of principals at comparison schools had fewer than three years of experience.

The validity of the findings of Balfanz et al. (2006) and Ruby (2006) was strengthened by the use of comparison schools and the inclusion of reliability information of the instruments used in each study.

Average total teaching experience was 3.77 years in innovation schools and 9.05 years in comparison schools.

These comparison schools may look very different from the average school in the state, especially if families are most likely to choose the virtual option when their traditional options are unsatisfactory.

While more time is spent on reading instruction and professional development in schools that received Reading First grants than in comparison schools, students in participating schools are no more likely to become proficient readers, even after several years with the extended...

Conditional on attending college, however, treatment students are 17.7 percentage points more likely to enroll in a four - year institution, relative to a mean of 46 % in comparison schools — a 40 % increase.

Students in Word Generation schools learned more of the target words than students in comparison schools, even though the latter group performed at a higher level at the start.

As expected, the students in Word Generation schools learned more of the target words than students in comparison schools, even though the latter group performed at a higher level at the start.

More than half of the students were language minority students, and the vast majority of students in both treatment and comparison schools were low - income.

At both KIPP schools and comparison schools, students who leave early are significantly more likely to be black males and significantly less likely to have limited English proficiency than students who remain.

Yet the Education Department's own three - year study comparing Core Knowledge with balanced literacy in demographically matched New York City schools showed the former «had significantly stronger gains than comparison school students on nearly all measures.»

To answer this question, we extended our projections of a range of student outcomes at both the closure and comparison schools, to provide an estimate of what would have occurred had the schools stayed on their historical trajectories.

WGU education program graduates have slightly higher rates of certification and employment than those attending comparison schools.

In order to shed light on this possibility, we also projected graduation rates for students at the comparison schools, and compared those projections with their students» actual graduation rates.