Sentences with phrase «gains on achievement tests»

Value - added estimates for a teacher can fluctuate for a variety of reasons, many not necessarily related to actual effectiveness at producing student gains on achievement tests.

While students showed gains on achievement tests after one year in the choice program, researcher Valerie Martinez of the University of Texas found that their families also had stronger educational backgrounds than those not in the program.

Most evaluations of early education programs show that such programs improve children's school readiness, specifically their pre-academic skills, although the distribution of impact estimates is extremely wide, and gains on achievement tests typically fade over time.

Not exact matches

On the one side, she agreed with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to a test plan offering monetary incentives to teachers in schools whose poorest students make significant gains in achievement (see «New York City's Education Battles,» features, Spring 2008).

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

Annual average improvement target of 2.5 percentage point gains in achievement on state reading and math tests between 2018 and 2025 for all students and student subgroups; plan includes goal of reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2025 for all students and student subgroups

Survey items focusing on test preparation activities were much more weakly related to student achievement gains than items focusing on instructional quality.

An analysis of test score gains made by students in 49 countries which was published in Ed Next last year found that students in the U.S. were not on track to close the global achievement gap.

We need to be assured that the scale on which we measure achievement is one of equal units: one student's five - point increase on an achievement test, from 15 to 20, must represent the same gain as another student's five - point increase from 25 to 30 (see Figure 1).

When compared with such crude indicators, the combination of student achievement gains on state tests, student surveys, and classroom observations identified teachers with better outcomes on every measure we tested: state tests and supplemental tests as well as more subjective measures, such as student - reported effort and enjoyment in class.

Recent evidence suggests that the teachers with larger student - achievement gains on state tests also seem to have students with greater long - term career success.

Teachers» average student - achievement gains based on such tests are more volatile from year to year (which translates to lower reliability) and are only weakly related to other measures, such as classroom observations and student surveys.

Researchers identified a «consistent, positive relationship between student exposure to high - quality intellectual assignments and students» learning gains on the test — even after controlling for race, socioeconomic class, gender, and prior achievement differences among classrooms.»

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

For example, in Alabama's 94 Reading First schools, the percentage of all 4th graders deemed to be proficient (stanine 5 and above) on the Stanford Achievement Test rose 12.7 points, from 40.1 percent in 2003 to 52.8 percent in 2007, more than twice as fast as the gain for students at other schools (which rose 5.5 points, from 64.2 percent to 69.7 percent in the same period).

All but one of the eight elementary turnaround schools show substantial gains in closing the achievement gap, with the percentage of students meeting or exceeding standards on the state test rising 8 - 28 percent, compared to the school's pre-turnaround status.

Utilizing data from the Measures for Effective Teaching project, we propose to test the impacts of ability grouping on observed teaching practice and student achievement gains.

Most tests gaining attention today are achievement tests, including those commonly referred to as «high stakes,» meaning that crucial decisions are made about a student, teacher, or school based on the results of the test.

Charter middle and high schools produce test - score achievement gains that are, on average, similar to those of traditional public schools.

First, we made a straightforward comparison of the average test - score gains in classrooms run by TFA and non-TFA teachers, controlling for a variety of factors known to influence academic achievement, including students» backgrounds, the students» previous performance on the TAAS, characteristics of their schools, and characteristics of their classmates.

Texting parents about students» missing assignments produces similar achievement gains on test scores as those produced by high - performing charter schools.

The study found that students in the pilot districts posted bigger gains — and, in some cases, smaller losses — on the California Achievement Test than did students in other systems.

I also expressed concern that test - score scales lack an essential property for comparing test - score gains: an interval of, say, 50 points at one point on the scale can not be assumed to represent the same achievement growth as a 50 - point interval elsewhere on the scale.

This suggests an alternative criterion by which to judge changes in student performance - namely, that achievement gains on test items that measure particular skills or understandings may be meaningful even if the student's overall test score does not fully generalize to other exams.

In one year, Troy's students have posted incredible gains on Idaho's Standard Achievement Test (ISAT), jumping 22 points in ELA to rank in the top 11 districts in the state and more than tripling the percent of their students scoring Advanced on the Math assessment.

Maryland's public school students made greater gains on a national standardized test than their peers in nearly every other state, although the achievement gap between white and minority students persists.

And a new study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University — although not studying the important question of whether teachers who receive high scores on TAP evaluations tend to produce greater gains in their students» test scores — found that a small sample of secondary schools using TAP produced no higher levels of student achievement than schools that hadn't implemented the TAP program.

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.

For example, high turnover of students throughout the year can affect the gains students make on achievement tests; and, if the class size is small, the scores of only a few students can affect the size of the gains.

Tennessee has had some of the country's largest student achievement gains on national tests in recent years.

«Combining observation scores, student feedback, and student achievement gains was better than graduate degrees or years of teaching experience at predicting a teacher's student achievement gains with another group of students on the state tests».

For instance, its teachers did better than control teachers on a math - content test linked to student achievement, but not enough to explain the performance gains.

By the 4th year, those kids who received the suite of RTL, RFS & SSS make huge gains on our standardized achievement tests.

Some people doubt the validity of the achievement tests on which the scores are based, some question the emphasis on test scores to begin with, and others challenge the very idea that student learning gains reflect how well teachers do their jobs.

But all of them share the idea that teachers who are particularly successful will help their students make large learning gains, that these gains can be measured by students» performance on achievement tests, and that the value - added score isolates the teacher's contribution to these gains.

Achievement on the DC - CAS math test increased by 29 percentage points to 67 %, the greatest student gain of any DC high school in 2013 — 2014

The discussion highlights the importance of accounting for student differences and the advantages of focusing on student achievement gains as opposed to differences in test scores.

With his guidance, Success Prep was recognized as a «Top Gains» school by the Louisiana Department of Education for its growth on the state's student achievement tests.

The E. M. Kauffman funded Philliber Research Associates evaluation of the CDF Freedom Schools program in Kansas City conducted between 2005 - 2007 indicates children who attend CDF Freedom Schools programs score significantly higher on standardized reading achievement tests than children who attend other summer enrichment programs; African American middle schools boys made the greatest gains of all.

Teacher merit, in this plan, was determined exclusively by student achievement gains on the Stanford Achievement Test or the Iowa Test of Baachievement gains on the Stanford Achievement Test or the Iowa Test of BaAchievement Test or the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

After establishing what Ripley describes as a more rigorous core curriculum nationally, with over 100 approved curricula that teachers can use at the local level, Poland began to see gains in their student achievement scores on the PISA test.

RICHMOND, Va. — Student achievement on Standards of Learning (SOL) tests during 2016 - 2017 was relatively unchanged compared with performance during the previous school year, although black students made gains on five of the six elementary and middle school reading tests, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) reported today.

(http://www.senatorphilpavlov.com/commentary-how-we-are-reinventing-states-outmoded-education-system/) What Sen. Pavlov fails to mention is that gaining a spot on the state's «achievement gap list» is no measure of any sort of educational or learning issue — its simply an indication that a school's students have not met a predetermined goal, set by the state (not teachers), with respect to standardized test scores in math or reading.

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In the small group of studies that examined academics, the researchers found that students performed better on achievement tests, tantamount to an 11 - percentile - point gain in achievement.

The reviews demonstrated gains of 11 — 17 percentile points on achievement tests that demonstrated that SEL programs offer students a practical educational benefit.