Sentences with phrase «grade test scores»

The data contain detailed demographic variables for each student as well as end - of - grade test scores in reading and math.

For example, one plaintiff was a first - grade teacher evaluated based on the third - grade test scores of students she herself never taught.

In fact, he found that these students actually scored half a point lower on the 36 - point ACT than students at schools where the tenth grade test scores weren't as strong.

We find robust positive effects of each program on third - grade test scores in both reading and math.

In fact, 9th grade attendance was a better predictor of dropout than 8th grade test scores.

The decision to judge programs based on third grade test scores dismisses the full range of skills and capacities developed through early childhood education that strongly contribute to future achievement and life outcomes.

Based on Chetty and his colleagues» results for how 2nd and 3rd grade test scores affect adult earnings, this test score gain for males would be expected to increase average annual adult earnings at ages 25 to 27 by a little over $ 900 or 5 %.

This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on 4th grade test scores in Santiago, Chile.

Fifth grade test scores are down at KIPP schools in Washington, DC, but KIPP leaders are not concerned, and the network is continuing to add schools and grade levels, reports Jay Mathews.

Reardon found that, for example, while Chicago, New York and suburban Henrico County, Virginia had similar eighth grade test scores, what happened prior to that, between third and eighth grade, varied tremendously.

Reardon and Portilla noted that other data — from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- show that the white - black and white - Hispanic gaps in fourth - grade test scores likewise narrowed between the same cohorts of children.

The grade - by - grade test score results in the table above shows especially strong gains in 4th - and 8th - grade ELA and 3rd - and 5th - grade math.

She noted that so far only few studies have explored IQ in ART children, and no previous studies have included ninth grade test scores in a complete national cohort of 15 -16-year-old adolescents all conceived by ART.

Controlling for 10th - grade test scores explains about half the graduation differential for charter high schools in Florida but less than 20 percent of the difference in Chicago.

Contrast that decline with the 6th - grade test scores for students who will enter middle school the following year, in the 7th grade.

Put simply, Suzie may learn more than Johnny in 3rd grade not because Suzie had the better teacher that year but because she may have had a better education the previous year, even though this was not reflected in her 2nd grade test score.

If 4th grade test scores leap from one year to the next, it may appear that the teacher has suddenly gone from lackluster to superior, but what really happened was two or three high - achievers moved into the neighborhood, or a child with severe academic challenges moved out.

Further, participation in NC Pre-K reduced the gap in average 3rd grade test scores between low - income children and their peers who did not qualify for free or reduced - price meals.North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Office of Early Learning.

These schools also have fewer black students than the statewide average, with 15.7 percent black students versus 24.9 percent statewide for students with third grade test scores.

The economists had a pretty good measure of the type of gas in each tank: the eighth - grade test scores of schools» incoming students.

A ranked wait list will be created in February by the school which will factor in the results of the onsite test, the student's NYS 4th grade test scores and the information provided on the student's 4th grade report card.

A 2008 study of graduation patterns in Chicago Public Schools, for example, found that the number of days students were absent in eighth grade was eight times more predictive of freshman year course failure than eighth grade test scores.

The researchers noted that another set of data indicate that the White - Black and White - Hispanic gaps in fourth - grade test scores likewise narrowed between the same cohorts of youth.

A new study of international and U.S. state trends in student achievement growth shows that the United States is squarely in the middle of a group of 49 nations in 4th and 8th grade test score gains in math, reading, and science over the period 1995 - 2009.

Additionally, a University of Chicago report found that 9th grade attendance, not 8th grade test scores, better predicted students» likelihood to drop out.

Fourth - grade test scores in reading and math continue to rise, reported Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings this past September in a well - designed press conference releasing the latest (2007) results from the nation's report card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

In December the state Board of Regents passed a moratorium putting a hold on the use of the third - through eighth - grade test scores on teacher and principal evaluations through the 2019 - 2020 school year.

Researchers looked at third grade test scores and levels of lead in blood samples from 58,650 students in Chicago public schools.

First, they compare the 10th - grade test scores of students with similar 8th - grade test scores and demographics, some of whom took the algebra and English courses online with FLVS and others who took the same courses in person at their local public school.

But their strongest evidence comes from analyses that identify students who took one of those courses online and the other in person, and ask whether a given student's 10th - grade test scores were higher or lower in the subject he or she took online.

(The results did not change when we tested alternative methods for standardizing GPAs, such as omitting remedial course grades or accounting for students» 10th - grade test scores.)

Sacramento, Calif — With the state's 12th - grade test scores up for the first time since 1969 in all subjects, Superintendent of Public Instruction Wilson Riles is claiming a turnaround in student achievement for California's high - school seniors.

Haney and others have concluded that this policy change artificially drove up 4th - grade test scores, because it removed from the cohort of students tested those who were retained in 3rd grade, the very students most likely to score the lowest on standardized tests.

Any academic intervention usually did not start until after the teachers received third - grade test scores — which were not ready until the following school year.

Whether eighth - grade test scores can continue to grow, given the flattening scores at the fourth grade, is something that remains to be seen.

We found very consistent evidence that the value - added scores for teachers predict 8th - grade test scores.

Controlling for student demographics, 8th - grade test scores, English language skills, special education program participation, free or reduced - price lunch status (a measure of family income), and mobility during middle school does not alter the basic patterns of graduation and college attendance seen in the descriptive comparisons.

The most important characteristic included among our statistical controls is 8th - grade test score, which aims to capture differences in student ability and students» educational experiences prior to high school.

We're looking at the teachers that students have in 4th through 8th grade and two different measures: end of the 8th - grade test score and at the number of advanced math courses students take in high school.

One highlight that had nothing to do with teachers was that a lot of the gap we see in end of 8th - grade test scores and high school course taking between advantaged and disadvantaged students can be explained by a student's 3rd - grade test.

Conversely, late entrants at district schools had dramatically lower average 4th - grade test scores than on - time enrollees: 0.30 and 0.32 standard deviations lower in reading and math, respectively (in both cases, 0.29 standard deviations below the district average).

It could, for instance, be a manifestation of regression to the mean: a negative relative gain between third and fifth grades could be reflective of particularly strong third grade test scores, and a positive relative gain between third and fifth grades could be reflective of particularly weak third grade test scores.

One would expect, if Haney's interpretation is correct, to see an upward spike in 4th - grade test scores in 2003 followed by a steady decline in test performance in subsequent years.

However, based on students» 8th - grade test scores and attendance rates, they enrolled higher concentrations of low - performing and chronically absent students.

At these schools, the population of entering 9th graders was less likely to be older than usual for their grade, had higher middle - school attendance rates, and had higher average 8th - grade test scores.