Sentences with phrase «difference in student performance across»

This means that there is little difference in student performance across economic strata.

Like policy researchers, measurement researchers generally have not distinguished among different subject areas in their targets for study or in their conclusions and recommendations, even though Linn (1998)(a prominent measurement researcher) has found differences in student performance across subject areas and within subscales of the same subject area.

With just a single year of data [41] there is no way to know whether differences in student performance across schools are due to school factors or differences in the average quality of teachers.

Not exact matches

[xi] Di Xu and Shanna Jaggars, «Performance Gaps Between Online and Face - to - Face Courses: Differences Across Types of Students and Academic Subject Areas,» Journal of Higher Education 85 (3), 633 - 659, 2014; Cassandra Hart, Elizabeth Friedmann, and Michael Hill, «Online Course - Taking and Student Outcomes in California Community Colleges,» Education Finance and Policy, forthcoming.

Finally, we evaluate the degree to which differences in relative test score performance (or growth) of high - SES versus low - SES students are largely occurring within school districts or across school districts.

This analysis makes clear that large differences in the performance of high - SES students and low - SES students in the same schools do exist; that these apparent gaps are not simply reflective of gaps in preparation; and that while the variation across school districts is substantial, the variation within school districts may be even larger (at least among the largest districts in Florida).

This large cross-school variation in SES performance gaps could be because they educate high - SES and low - SES students differently, or it could be that there are major fundamental differences across schools in the relative pre-school preparation of high - SES and low - SES students.

Indeed, there are massive disparities across states in terms of current student performance, and these differences are not merely a factor of the social and economic conditions in the state.

Changes in student performance across years or differences between groups of students in 2017 are discussed only if they have been determined to be statistically significant.