Sentences with phrase «deviation gain in achievement»

By their low - end estimates of benefits (which total to just three standard deviations), each $ 100 spent on classroom coaches would be expected to yield at least a 0.25 standard deviations gain in achievement, very similar to the expected gain for full - day kindergarten.

Not exact matches

It is true that on average, an additional $ 1000 in per - pupil spending is associated with an annual gain in achievement of one - tenth of 1 percent of a standard deviation.

Using the upper range of their effect size estimates, $ 100 spent on classroom coaches would yield a gain of over one - half standard deviations in student achievement, and one - to - one tutoring would yield a one - quarter standard deviations improvement.

The achievement of a nationwide sample of 4th and 8th grade students with the same racial make - up as Chicago students, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), increased roughly 0.25 standard deviations in math during the 1990s, though there was no gain in reading.

Gains continued to accelerate, and by three years after funding, the typical SIG school in Massachusetts had seen student achievement improve by 0.4 to 0.5 standard deviations: roughly half of the achievement gap between African American and white students.

The consensus seems to be that attending the class of a teacher who is one standard deviation above her peers in value - added is associated with a gain in achievement of 10 to 15 percent of a standard deviation in student achievement.