Sentences with phrase «gains in test scores»

Chicago's children, all children, show dramatic gains in test scores, according to a Stanford University study.

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.

In the car, she squeezes in a pep talk with a talented school leader who's disappointed by her students» marginal gains in test scores.

David Whitman documents in Sweating the Small Stuff that dramatic gains in test scores have been reported for students enrolled in a number of the elementary and secondary schools profiled in his book.

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.

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.

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.

Per student spending in American schools has quadrupled since 1960, but gains in test scores haven't improved much at all.

Such all - out efforts helped this Prince George's County school win a national award this year for gains in test scores.

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.»

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.

For alternative schools like Sunshine, the state calculates those ratings based on gains in test scores.

And many states defied the theory [that «additional spending on education will yield gains in test scores»] by showing gains even when they did not commit much in the way of additional resources.»

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.

First, we identified the set of classrooms most likely to have cheated, based on the prevalence of suspicious answer strings and unusual gains in test scores on the initial spring 2002 exam.

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.

According to another popular theory, additional spending on education will yield gains in test scores.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Again, gains in test scores do not appear to capture very well the quality of schools or programs.

A less narrow concept of school quality (currently limited to short - term gains in test scores alone) is essential to refocus the movement on its ultimate object: setting children on a path for lives of self - sufficiency, upward mobility, and engaged citizenship.

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.

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.

The result is no general gain in test scores while below the surface there is a gain for each major subgroup.

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.

The mean achievement gains for males on the overall test battery imply a percentile gain in test scores of a little less than 10 percentiles.

Bottom line: «Growth» is a euphemistic name for a gain in test scores from one point in time to another.

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.

Last week, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña released a statement celebrating citywide gains in Advanced Placement test scores for the second year in a row.

She managed the historic introduction of universal pre-K and oversaw significant gains in student achievement from test scores to high school graduation rates.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education LaIn addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lain achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lain engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lain attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lain the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

They scale the gain in black students» scores by the standard deviation of test scores computed for a select sample of students, and observe that the gain in their scores due to attending private school is «roughly one - third of the test - score gap between blacks and whites nationwide.»

Boston charters (Angrist, et al, 2014)-- Huge test score gains, no increase in HS grad rate or postsecondary attendance.

The largest gains for the test — the Kentucky Instructional Results System, or KIRIS — came in reading and mathematics, with fewer students scoring at the «novice,» or lowest, level and more students scoring at the «proficient» and «distinguished» levels.

And some observers have speculated that the exceptional gains observed in Florida could be explained by a change in rules regarding the test scores of high - mobility students who move in and out of schools and districts often.

In four studies, charter school programs that produce impressive test score gains appear to yield no or little improvement in educational attainmenIn four studies, charter school programs that produce impressive test score gains appear to yield no or little improvement in educational attainmenin educational attainment.

But ever since becoming a federally funded turnaround school in 2010, these meetings have become cherished time for the teachers and, according to Nolan, one of the key reasons their elementary school — once one of the lowest achieving in Boston — has seen significant gains on test scores.

The estimated gain from being offered a voucher is only half as large as the gain from switching to private school (in response to being offered a voucher), so the estimated impact of offering vouchers is no more than one - eighth as large as the black - white test score gap.

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

Gains in student test scores also outpaced previous levels as well as the increases in district scores, he added.

Students of teachers who had completed an online professional - development course about fractions made test - score gains that were similar to those of students taught by teachers who had taken the same course in person.

Finally, while exam - school students have considerably higher fluid cognitive skills (as would be expected of students who gain admission via test scores and grades), attending one of these locally renowned schools in the company of other bright students confers no systematic advantage.

There is ample reason to believe that the test - score gains generated by these schools are meaningful, despite the lack of corresponding improvement in fluid cognition.

While these schools succeed in generating test - score gains for students of all cognitive abilities, it is still the case that students with strong fluid cognitive skills learn more.

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.

Second, even in the absence of such behaviors, the correlation between test - score gains and improvements in long - term outcomes has not been conclusively established.