Sentences with phrase «greatest test score gains»

When Sara Neufeld wrote in The Hechinger Report last year that Newark's Quitman Street Renew School had the greatest test score gains in reading of all 45 elementary and middle schools in Newark the prior spring, we at Education Elements saw it as triumph.

Not exact matches

Yes, many interventions that boost test scores, such as being assigned to an effective teacher, have been shown to generate substantial gains in later earnings (see «Great Teaching,» research, Summer 2012).

If this practice were the case, the greatest fall - to - spring achievement gains would occur among students around the threshold, while other students would struggle to match expected test - score gains.

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.

If sizable increases in test scores were due to an especially talented teacher, the gains would be likely to have a greater permanent component, even if students regressed a bit the following year.

Gaining a better understanding of what causes the test - score gap is of great importance because eliminating the gap could yield great advances in the well - being of African - Americans.

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.

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.

White, African American, and Latino students all scored higher on those NAEP tests than did students from the same racial and ethnic groups in the 1970s, but African American and Latino students made greater gains than white students.

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 Gates Foundation's MET project (much but not all of which the AFT agrees with) has found that combining a range of measures — not placing inordinate weight on standardized test scores — yields the greatest reliability and predictive power of a teacher's gains with other students.

A teacher's observation scores are supplemented by a so - called «value - added» rating, which is calculated by determining whether a teacher's students made greater gains on standardized tests than statistical models would have predicted.

In fact, schools implementing this model saw greater gains in student test scores.

However, while raising test scores is great, the real payoff is in the self - confidence that she gained.

The school met its three - year improvement goals in a single year and achieved the greatest gains in state test scores of all 35 of the state's «Level 4» schools, including significant gains in both English and mathematics.

That said, the highest - quality research studies find that charter schools tend to produce greater gains in math and reading test scores for traditionally disadvantaged students, compared to the gains these same students would achieve if they attended a traditional public school.

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.

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.

Voucher supporters, comfortable that private schools do not deliver greater learning gains or test scores than their traditional counterparts, claim that vouchers are cheaper and better for business.

In a comparative study of test scores in states showing changes in the number of librarians between 2004 and 2009, Lance and Hofschire (2011) determined states which gained school librarians demonstrated a greater rise in reading scores while states that lost librarians had an overall decline in reading scores.

Results showed that a greater reported volunteer — student relationship quality predicted greater gains by EC students on passage comprehension and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test scores.

After controlling for poverty and test scores from previous years, the Responsive Classroom (RC) approach contributed to the gains in both reading and math, with a greater difference between the intervention and control schools seen in math.