By extending learning time, concentrating on school leadership, and giving many schools greater autonomy, the district made noticeable gains in reading scores and significant
gains in math scores.
While the effects that math and English teachers have on students» test scores in the year that they have them similarly persists in their own subject in subsequent years, the gains in English scores due to English teachers have far greater effects on students» subsequent math performance than
the gains in math scores due to math teachers have on students» subsequent English performance.
For example, two elementary buildings in Swan Valley Schools are collaborating around the implementation of the Focused Instructional Model (FIM) in math and seeing great
gains in math scores.
Not exact matches
New York's school children made incremental progress
in math scores but no
gains in English tests
in the second year of Common Core - related exams.
In touting mostly across - the - board gains, they also noted that 41 of the city's 63 struggling «Renewal Schools» saw an increase in their English scores and 36 saw an increase in mat
In touting mostly across - the - board
gains, they also noted that 41 of the city's 63 struggling «Renewal Schools» saw an increase
in their English scores and 36 saw an increase in mat
in their English
scores and 36 saw an increase
in mat
in math.
Buckley acknowledged that the
gains from 2009 to 2011 were modest, taking as an example the one - point rise
in math scores among fourth - graders.
Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases
in math and English scale
scores and performance level
scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a
gain of at least one performance level
in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students
in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement
in overall academic achievement compared to students
in the control group, which showed only a slight
gain.
According to the models comparing high -
scoring F schools with low -
scoring D schools, to achieve the same 5 - point
gain in math that the threat of vouchers accomplished, Florida schools would need to increase per - pupil spending by $ 3,484 at previously failing schools.
However, Houston's
scores are significantly higher than those of Los Angeles
in both reading and
math, and the city has experienced greater
gains in recent years.
While about two - thirds of SIG schools did register modest
gains in reading and
math,
scores at one - third actually declined over the period.
If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll
in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the
gains in test
scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks
in reading and 9.8 ranks
in math.
The correlations between our summary measure of fluid cognitive ability and test -
score gains in math and reading were 0.32 and 0.18, respectively.
In addition, the differences in test - score gains between bottom - and top - quartile students on each non-cognitive skill amount to almost a full year's worth of learning in math over the middle school year
In addition, the differences
in test - score gains between bottom - and top - quartile students on each non-cognitive skill amount to almost a full year's worth of learning in math over the middle school year
in test -
score gains between bottom - and top - quartile students on each non-cognitive skill amount to almost a full year's worth of learning
in math over the middle school year
in math over the middle school years.
Last week Rocketship Education announced the results of an independent 16 - week study by SRI International that showed that students who had greater access to online instruction
in math, specifically a learning program called Dreambox Learning, achieved significant
gains in mathematics
scores.
In particular, since 2001 (that is, since NCLB was passed), there have been sizable gains in NAEP 4th - and 8th - grade math tests, small improvements in 4th - and 8th - grade reading tests, and very little change in 12th - grade score
In particular, since 2001 (that is, since NCLB was passed), there have been sizable
gains in NAEP 4th - and 8th - grade math tests, small improvements in 4th - and 8th - grade reading tests, and very little change in 12th - grade score
in NAEP 4th - and 8th - grade
math tests, small improvements
in 4th - and 8th - grade reading tests, and very little change in 12th - grade score
in 4th - and 8th - grade reading tests, and very little change
in 12th - grade score
in 12th - grade
scores.
At the 4th grade level
in math and reading, D.C. students
gained 6 scale
score points between 2007 and 2009, while the average
gain in the other districts was only 1 point and 2.2 points, respectively.
For example, during the Rhee years, 4th - grade students,
in both reading and
math,
gained an average of 3 points each year relative to the
scores earned by students nationwide, a
gain twice that of Rhee's predecessors.
Eighth - grade
math scores among the highest performers also improved substantially over the period,
gaining 14 points nationally and 17 points
in Texas (Figure 10).
These new systems depend primarily on two types of measurements: student test
score gains on statewide assessments
in math and reading
in grades 4 - 8 that can be uniquely associated with individual teachers; and systematic classroom observations of teachers by school leaders and central staff.
According to an analysis by Eric Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann and Paul Peterson, Indiana was toward the back of the pack when it came to test
score gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
in reading,
math, and science from the early 1990s until today.
At the 4th - grade level, D.C. students
in math and reading
gained 6 scale
score points between 2007 and 2009, while the average
gain in the other 10 cities for which comparable data are available was only 1 point and 2.2 points, respectively.
Results from a new report on test
scores show the nation's students making modest
gains in math and science
in recent years, while failing to significantly increase their reading and writing performance.
Third, the student responses were more correlated with teachers» student - achievement
gains in math and ELA than the observation
scores were.
In our study, the teachers with larger gains on low - cost state math tests also had students with larger gains on the Balanced Assessment in Mathematics, a more - expensive - to - score test designed to measure students» conceptual understanding of mathematic
In our study, the teachers with larger
gains on low - cost state
math tests also had students with larger
gains on the Balanced Assessment
in Mathematics, a more - expensive - to - score test designed to measure students» conceptual understanding of mathematic
in Mathematics, a more - expensive - to -
score test designed to measure students» conceptual understanding of mathematics.
Students
in the middle of the prior test -
score distribution also experience substantial
gains of roughly 0.10 to 0.12 standard deviations
in math and 0.08 to 0.10 standard deviations
in English.
Teachers»
scores on the classroom observation components of Cincinnati's evaluation system reliably predict the achievement
gains made by their students
in both
math and reading.
A study of test
scores from 2010 through 2014, by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University, found that Denver's charters produced «remarkably large
gains in math,» large
gains in writing, and smaller but statistically significant
gains in reading, compared to DPS - operated schools.
The council's Beating the Odds VI report, a city - by - city analysis of student performance, recently revealed that urban students»
scores on state assessments
in reading and
math as well as on the more rigorous federal test — the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- are rising, with urban students making the most
gains in mathematics.
They found that
in both
math and science, the positive relationship between lecture - style methods and test
score gains was maintained.
When Mr. Obama first moved to phase out the D.C. voucher program
in 2009, his Education Department was
in possession of a federal study showing that voucher recipients, who number more than 3,300, made
gains in reading
scores and didn't decline
in math.
In contrast, the
math -
score gains associated with having a career - ladder teacher actually appear to have been concentrated among students with teachers on the lowest rungs of the career ladder.
, is the result of an investigation into whether the dramatic
gains in math and reading
scores on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) represented actual academic progress.
Their entire database consists of
gains in average
scores in math and reading from three specific tests - TAAS, the Texas NAEP, and the national NAEP - for three racial groups.
On the Nation's Report Card's main tests, 4th and 8th grade reading and
math scored gains in 49 of 50 states.
In fact, if you look at Table 4 in their paper you will find that teachers with higher verbal SAT scores are negatively associated with student gains in math achievemen
In fact, if you look at Table 4
in their paper you will find that teachers with higher verbal SAT scores are negatively associated with student gains in math achievemen
in their paper you will find that teachers with higher verbal SAT
scores are negatively associated with student
gains in math achievemen
in math achievement.
In states that had genuine alternative certification, test - score gains on the NAEP exceeded those in the other states by 4.8 points and 7.6 points in 4th - and 8th - grade math, respectivel
In states that had genuine alternative certification, test -
score gains on the NAEP exceeded those
in the other states by 4.8 points and 7.6 points in 4th - and 8th - grade math, respectivel
in the other states by 4.8 points and 7.6 points
in 4th - and 8th - grade math, respectivel
in 4th - and 8th - grade
math, respectively.
Voucher - threatened schools made the next highest relative
gains: 9.2 scale -
score points on the
math FCAT and 3.5 percentile points on the Stanford - 9
in math.
The sometimes - D schools experienced year - to - year changes
in FCAT
math scores that were only 2.4 points higher than all other Florida public schools, significantly less than the
gains in both voucher - eligible and voucher - threatened schools.
In our analysis, there are 68,677 students for whom the data allow us to compute at least two gain scores in math (and a similar number for the reading estimation
In our analysis, there are 68,677 students for whom the data allow us to compute at least two
gain scores in math (and a similar number for the reading estimation
in math (and a similar number for the reading estimation).
Black and Hispanic 4th grade
math scores leaped forward by 18 points;
in reading these
gains were a laudable 13 points and 9 points.
Arlington schools as a whole saw notable
gains in reading and
math scores, with 86 percent and 87 percent of students districtwide passing those subject tests.
Indeed, the social scientists» brief rather cautiously claims the existence of any benefit at all, describing the «positive impact» as «modest,» id., at 13, acknowledging that «there appears to be little or no effect on
math scores,» id., at 14, and admitting that the «underlying reasons for these
gains in achievement are not entirely clear,» id., at 15.11
Texas students have had a falloff
in ACT English
scores, but they have made steady
gains in math and now outperform the nation
in that subject.
Recent years» SAT
scores have shown tiny
gains in math, offset by declines
in verbal performance.
LAUSD kids under @DrDeasyLAUSD outpaced other urban kids
in gains on NAEP
in reading &
math, but raw
scores still well behind big - city avg
I find that students
in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program had faster
math score gains than, but similar reading
score gains to, the comparison groups.
In 2008, Brookings Institution scholar Tom Loveless reported that, while the nation's lowest - achieving students made significant gains in fourth - grade reading and math scores from 2000 to 2007, top students made anemic gain
In 2008, Brookings Institution scholar Tom Loveless reported that, while the nation's lowest - achieving students made significant
gains in fourth - grade reading and math scores from 2000 to 2007, top students made anemic gain
in fourth - grade reading and
math scores from 2000 to 2007, top students made anemic
gains.
These comparisons seem to suggest that the gap
in math scores narrows through elementary school, with some (but not all) of this
gain lost during the middle - school years.
In DC ~ schools chancellor Michelle Rhee boasted that all subgroups improved reading and
math test
scores between 2007 and 2010 ~ with low - income and minority high school students showing double - digit
gains.
Even though more women and girls are getting college degrees and
scoring in the top ranks on national
math tests than was the case
in the 1970s, their academic
gains have not come at the expense of boys, says a report by the American Association of University Women.