I've written several times recently about how short
term gains in test scores are not associated with improved later life outcomes for students.
Students in public schools faced with increased private school competition showed
greater gains in test scores than students in other public schools with the introduction of the program.
During this same period, high - performing urban charters grew rapidly and produced
exceptional gains in test scores and college enrollment rates for black and Latino students.
Based on the percentile
gains in test scores from Boston pre-K, the ratio of the present value of the future increase in adult earnings, to the cost of the program, are estimated to be $ 3.22 for children eligible for a subsidized lunch, versus $ 2.30 for middle - class children.
Had competition between private schools been maximising the quality of education each provided to its voucher students, we would not have observed such a
large gain in test scores once schools knew their results would be made public.
As a whole, after years of poor performance and an exodus of middle - class families to the suburbs, Cincinnati has made some of the greatest
gains in test scores in Ohio in recent years, even though it lags behind state averages.
And the situation is even worse because most regulators making decisions about what choice schools should be opened, expanded, or closed are not relying on rigorously
identified gains in test scores — they just look primarily at the levels of test scores and call those with low scores bad.
Such all - out efforts helped this Prince George's County school win a national award this year
for gains in test scores.
First, I examine to what
extent gains in test scores following the fail rating are accounted for by selectively removing low - performing students.
In addition, all Florida schools are graded from A to F based on the share of their student bodies that scores at high levels on the FCAT and
experiences gains in their test scores from year to year.
Conversely, schools and programs that fail to produce greater
gains in test scores sometimes produce impressive improvements in high school graduation and college attendance rates, college completion rates, and even higher employment and earnings.
The Gates» foundation also «bought» many of the Common Core State Standards initiatives and it funds multi-state projects where teachers who produce above
average gains in test scores are defined as «effective.»
Additionally, the Promising Afterschool Programs Study, concluded in 2007, found that disadvantaged students who regularly participate in high - quality after - school programs usually see
significant gains in test scores and work habits, as well as a corresponding decrease in behavioral issues in school.
If the project - based learning schools show
measurable gains in test scores or graduation rates, she said, the district will look to them for methods that can be expanded to primary schools.
The single explanation posed by the authors of the long - term studies reviewed here is that teachers who are effective at producing
initial gains in test scores are also effective in producing gains in non-cognitive or «soft skills.»
New York has increased educational spending several years in a row, with
subsequent gains in testing scores and academic achievement typically following an increase in budget.
The report by the NRC committee claims that
gains in test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) between 2007 and 2009 were no better than in the ten other school districts for which comparable data is available.
Research by Marty West and colleagues of no excuses charter schools in Boston found
large gains in test scores but also significantly lowered student performance on noncognitive measures.
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For example: «[M] ost regulators making decisions about what choice schools should be opened, expanded, or closed are not relying on rigorously
identified gains in test scores — they just look primarily at the levels of test scores and call those with low scores bad.»
An increase in measured grading standards of 1 standard deviation is associated with about one - fifth of a year of schooling's worth
of gains in test scores — a large effect relative to many other interventions.
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.
Perhaps surprisingly given
the gains in test score graduation requirements reported in Table 4, the estimates in Table 7 suggest not.
Performance - based accountability evaluates teachers» effectiveness through a comprehensive, research - based system that combines such criteria as position responsibilities, classroom observations, and students»
gains in test scores.
Finally, I examine whether
any gains in test scores in the year of the fail rating are sustained in the years following the inspection.
Perhaps surprisingly given
the gains in test score graduation requirements reported in column 2 of table 4, the estimates in column 4 of this table suggest not.
And Josh Angrist and colleagues found that those schools actually decrease four year high school graduation rates despite large
gains in test scores.
For alternative schools like Sunshine, the state calculates those ratings based on
gains in test scores.
Per student spending in American schools has quadrupled since 1960, but
gains in test scores haven't improved much at all.
Although there is widespread agreement that compensatory preschool education can produce short - term
gains in test scores, its ability to produce meaningful long - term improvements in educational and economic success has been questioned.
Later in the year, teachers who have similar district - approved SLOs are rated and ranked on
the gains in test scores they have produced.
Bottom line: «Growth» is a euphemistic name for
a gain in test scores from one point in time to another.