Sentences with phrase «higher achieving students tend»

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This math anxiety tends to affect our most promising high - achieving students.

KIPP schools replace fewer of these students in the last two years of middle school, however, and, compared to district schools, KIPP schools tend to replace those who leave with higher - achieving students.

Younger students gain an advantage by learning from and competing with older students, who tend to be higher achieving and better behaved.

This is particularly problematic for low - income, high - achieving students, who tend to lack access to «gifted and talented» programs and similar initiatives.

It's unclear whether higher - scoring teachers lead to higher - scoring students or whether affluent districts, which tend to have higher - achieving students, also tend to hire teachers with higher scores.

This encourages schools to ignore their high - flyers, which is particularly problematic for low - income high - achieving students, who tend to lack access to «gifted and talented» programs and similar initiatives.

SAT Subject Test scores aren't comparable to general SAT scores because the Subject Tests tend to be taken by a higher percentage of high - achieving students than the SAT.

In this figure, panel A shows that high - achieving, high - income students tend to apply to colleges and universities where their test scores closely match the test scores of typical students at those institutions.

For example, confounding occurs if teachers of low - income or minority students have lower — or higher — scores than equally effective teachers who teach groups that tend to be higher - achieving.

[23] This means that students attending a high - achieving school will tend to score around 1.5 standard deviations higher, on average, than students attending a low - achieving school.

High - achieving students tend to be clustered in schools in which peers are highly motivated, parents are committed to the success of the school, and the surrounding neighborhood is safe.

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.

Professor Elsie Talfa says that people tend to associate cheating with the «slacker» students who get low grades, but she says higher achieving students are more apt to cheat and it's a mirror of what's happening within our society.

I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus on raising student test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).