Sentences with phrase «fourth of a standard deviation»

Taking this difference into account cuts the black - white test - score gap to less than a fourth of a standard deviation in math and completely eliminates the gap in reading.

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Fourth, 262 MPs receive the London accommodation budget, which has a standard rate of # 20,600 but can climb as high as # 32,725 for MPs with five dependants (average of # 22,000 and standard deviation of # 2,500).

In math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantic.

Danish Shakeel, Kaitlin Anderson, and I conducted a meta - analysis of the 16 experimental studies, finding that the private - school - choice programs evaluated in the United States have increased student achievement by an average of.13 standard deviations in reading by the fourth year after the study started.

Advocates of universal pre-k who wish to ground their position in research better hope the estimates are biased downward because they are very small, e.g., no more than one to three percent of a standard deviation difference between the children in Georgia / Oklahoma vs. other states on fourth grade NAEP achievement scores.

In the years immediately following the No Child Left Behind Act (2002 to 2005), about half of all states improved their average fourth grade math achievement on NAEP at a rate faster than.08 standard deviations per year (which translates to 2.3 NAEP points).

Using variation in attendance caused by inclement weather, one study estimated that each additional absence reduced math achievement by 0.05 standard deviations, suggesting that attendance can account for up to one - fourth of the achievement gap by income.

We find positive effects on reading comprehension among third and fourth graders, with effect sizes of.21 to.29 standard deviations, but no effects for first and second graders.

Scores for one group of students at Crescendo Charter Academy, in Gardena, jumped from the 40th percentile to the 94th statewide between third and fourth grades, a standard deviation of 3.4.

Exit when the price is moving rapidly into an overextended technical state, often identified by a series of vertical bars on the 60 - minute chart or price piercing the third or fourth standard deviation of a top or bottom 20 - day Bollinger Band.