Sentences with phrase «high in math»

Asian and white student whose families have money score twice as high in math as black students from similar economic backgrounds.

but still Faith based Parochial school students often test higher in math and science than those in public schools.

English language learners who participated in the intervention also scored significantly higher in math than their peers in the control group.

And it seems to be working: In spring 2007, Enota students scored higher in math on the Criterion - Referenced Competency Test (CRCT, Georgia's annual standardized exam) than any other school in the district.

In the fall, a month into the school year, only the preliminary MCAS scores were public, but Qazilbash says that the fifth - graders scored higher in math and science than any fifth - grade class that came before them in what was then South Lawrence East Middle School.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

The results suggest that elementary schools with no bilingual - education enrollment score six points higher in reading and three points higher in math than schools with all their English Learners enrolled in bilingual education.

They concluded that students who were allowed additional time on the entire exam would have scored no more than 10 points higher in verbal and 20 points higher in math, though there was no advantage whatsoever among students whose overall score in math was lower than 400.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

Furthermore, students in schools where external exams or standardized tests heavily influence the curriculum scored 4 points higher in math, though there appears to be no effect in science.

Students in schools that determine their own teacher salaries scored 11 points higher in math, 15 in science.

The CTBA report ignores entirely previous research from the Brookings Institution, a random - assignment study — the gold standard of social science research — that found voucher students in Milwaukee scored six Normal Curve Equivalent points higher than the control group in reading and 11 points higher in math.

In this study, students in countries where schools have more decision - making powers in managing personnel, planning, choosing their instructional methods, and deciding how to use resources scored significantly higher in science and higher in math (though the effect in math is statistically insignificant).

Students in schools that hire their own teachers scored 13 points higher in math, 5 in science.

In other words, a student who faced institutions that were all conducive to student performance would have scored more than 200 points higher in math than a student who faced institutions that were all detrimental to student performance.

Students in countries with larger shares of their enrollment in privately managed schools scored significantly higher in both math and science.

All things being equal, students in countries with centralized exams scored 16 points higher in math and 11 points higher in science, although the science finding is not statistically significant due to the small number of countries in the sample (see Figure 3 for results).

The fortunate students ranked 17 percentile points higher in English and 25 points higher in math.

Middle - school students who won a charter lottery scored about 0.25 standard deviations (hereafter, σ) higher on ELA and 0.40 σ higher in math, a result shown in column 2 of Table 4 (labeled «reduced form»).

Students whose middle schools started one hour later when they were in 8th grade continue to score 2 percentile points higher in both math and reading when tested in grade 10.

But when you compare the charters to the DCPS schools they're actually competing with — the ones outside of Ward 3 — the gap becomes more dramatic: The proficiency rate among charter students last year was about 34 percent higher in math and 30 percent higher in reading.

On average, Finnish students do only about three hours of homework a week, yet in 2012 they scored sixth highest in the world in reading and 12th highest in math on the OECD's international test, known as PISA or Programme for International Student Assessment.

By third grade, the average charter student scored 5.8 points higher in math on standard achievement tests than those who lost the lottery and 5.3 points higher in English.

The Times reported that students with teachers rated in the top 10 percent for effectiveness had scores averaging 17 percentile points higher in English and 25 points higher in math than students whose teachers were in the bottom 10 percent.

And Louisiana Believes is demonstrating early success: Louisiana 4th graders achieved the highest growth among all states on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading test, and the second - highest in math.

Fourth - grade students recorded the highest gain — four points — among 21 urban school systems since 2011; fourth - graders also scored higher in math, and eighth - graders scored higher in reading.

Across the U.S., about 32 percent of students in both grades were proficient or higher in reading, and about 40 percent of fourth - graders and 34 percent of eighth - graders scored tested proficient or higher in math.

Many countries, including those where students perform higher in math and reading, send the strongest and most experienced teachers to work with the lowest performing students.

Nine of the 10 districts that had opted into the program during its first administration in 2003 scored higher in math at both grade levels.

The need for teachers is highest in math, science, special education, foreign languages, technology applications, and bilingual education.

[14] On the new SBAC assessments, Madison students scored an average of nineteen points higher than the state average in English language arts, and an average of six points higher in math.

The charter group found that the charter students scored nine percentage points higher in English language arts but only four percentage points higher in math.

And only 8 percent of African - American eighth - graders scored «proficient» or higher in math, down a percentage point from four years ago.

A 2007 study from Kansas University found that kids who attended schools where musicality was strongly encouraged scored 22 % higher in English and 20 % higher in math on standardized tests.

Not exact matches

Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

This enriched program focuses on high - level fundamentals in everything from math to the humanities in its first two years, followed by an accelerated, discipline - specific engineering science major.

Like, for instance, when he mentions that he was the first New Zealander to be selected as a Fulbright Scholar in entrepreneurship, or tells you he once spent two weeks in a coma after contracting malaria in Indonesia, or says he was among the highest - scoring secondary - school students on a national math exam.

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A math whiz from an early age, in high school he interned at O'Reilly Media, a publisher of technical books which also produces geeky events like Foo Camp and Strata.

In reality, when investors are paying extremely high prices for each dollar of earnings that equities produce, market math dictates that future returns will be the reverse of what the bulls are claiming — extremely low.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.

«If you just do some simple math in terms of Canada's share of the global marketplace, then it's not a gigantic number — it's in the low hundreds of millions or high tens of millions,» says Johal.

She pursued engineering in college largely because her high school math teacher suggested it and her parents approved.

According to the TD report, recent research indicates that boys demonstrate more confidence in math and more voluntary participation in high school and university math classes, implying that more effective methods of «developing numeracy skills and confidence» in young girls are needed.

First, they qualified high - tech start - ups as those companies with very high shares of employees in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and math.

The inventors, juniors and seniors at San Fernando High School in California, are part of a nonprofit organization called DIY Girls that aims to inspire girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

So in high school, we're just trying to keep them in math, introduce them to different careers in STEM.

In his 1947 Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook, Buffett said he «likes math» and wants to be a «stockbroker.»

The problem here is the math — the number of people in the middle is too large to be paid out of revenues from higher taxes at the top.