Sentences with phrase «entering achievement test scores»

If these students have a wide range of entering achievement test scores, the high performing school must be offering instruction suited to students who exhibit a wide range of achievement.

Not exact matches

To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

Students entered the G&T program in 6th grade, and their progress was measured when they were 7th graders, using data drawn from their Stanford Achievement Test scores and attendance rates.

However, the achievement gains for charter elementary schools are challenging to estimate and remain unclear because elementary students typically have no baseline test scores at the time they enter kindergarten.

Six years earlier, in 1999, the first group of students to enter KIPP Academy middle school, which Levin founded and ran in the South Bronx, triumphed on the eighth - grade citywide achievement test, graduating with the highest scores in the Bronx and the fifth - highest in all of New York City.

The study found increased reading achievement for a subset of students (students from schools not in need of improvement and students who were already testing in the top two - thirds of the test - score distribution when they entered the program) but not for students from schools in need of improvement, which the program specifically targeted.

Achievement test scores may certainly enter into a promotion or retention decision.