Sentences with phrase «in math scores»

Compared to their matched pairs who did not participate, preschool participants showed gains equivalent to a 7 % boost in reading and a 6 % increase in math scores in 5th grade.

For those without special accommodations, one finds no gains in verbal scores and just a 0.1 standard deviation gain in math scores over this period of time.

An unexpected benefit of the retention policy is the improvement in math scores.

Our students typically see up to two times more growth in math scores than their peers.

A rise in math scores has been one result of this.

Students whose 3rd - grade scores were below the statewide median saw substantially larger declines in math scores at both the middle - and high - school transition points than higher - achieving students.

Still, the school ranks No. 1 in math scores among middle schools in its district, and it received an A on the city's progress report this year.

Neither black nor white girls showed a change in math scores as the black composition of a school increased.

Their scores climbed a modest 7 points in reading over this period of time, with no change in the math scores.

Officials say school attendance is up, and the local charter high school has seen a boost in math scores.

Of the 112 high schools included in the data, 77 schools improved in math scores by at least 1 percentage point compared to 2015.

Among black children, the results indicate that having a black teacher for a year was associated with a statistically significant 3 to 5 percentile - point increase in math scores.

By extending learning time, concentrating on school leadership, and giving many schools greater autonomy, the district made noticeable gains in reading scores and significant gains in math scores.

A rise in the maths scores has offset a slight fall in science and reading.

Combining the results of the student social - skills surveys and school climate surveys accounted for 21 percent of the difference in math scores for the lowest - performing 5 percent of low - performing schools.

We saw a huge increase in our math scores in one year and the only thing we did differently was use DreamBox.

Markus discusses the «Rocketship Hybrid School Model» at Rocketship Education and the results and implications of an independent study that showed improvements in math scores for students who had access to online math instruction.

Ferguson noted that the quality of the teacher (as determined by test scores, level of education, and experience) accounts for 43 percent of the difference in math scores of students in grades 3 to 5.

In 1978, the gap in math scores between African American and white 13 - year - olds on the National Assessment of Educational Progress was about 1.1 standard deviations (21).

By 2003, NCLB had turned every state into a consequential accountability state, and the rate of increase nationwide in math scores between 2000 and 2007 was remarkable.

In schools that implemented FSS over a two - year period, there was a positive trend in math scores on the DC - CAS, with all schools averaging over nine points of growth.

Consistent with other research on school effects, we find that the school a student attends can explain a substantial share of the overall variation in test scores: that single factor explains 34 percent of the variation in math scores and 24 percent of the variation for reading.

While Nebraska saw an increase in fourth - grade reading scores, both Minnesota, which adopted the English Common Core standards but not the math standards, and Texas saw drops in math scores.

was more explicit: «Paterson saw a decrease in math scores in eight of nine grade levels.

New York's school children made incremental progress in math scores but no gains in English tests in the second year of Common Core - related exams.

If the United States is lucky, one or both of these shocks will produce yet another major uptick in math scores.

Formerly threatened schools saw no improvement in their math scores relative to all public schools.

We all recognize a need for massive change in American education, but is our ultimate goal to outrank other countries in assessment tests and to beat the Chinese in math scores?

Texas» fourth - and eighth - graders also outperformed the nation in math scores in the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress and have a narrower gap in reading and writing on that test.

In state after state, boys are slipping behind girls in math scores on state exams — which steps on all the conventional wisdom about boys excelling in math — while falling far behind girls in reading.

These comparisons seem to suggest that the gap in math scores narrows through elementary school, with some (but not all) of this gain lost during the middle - school years.

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.

The state has been rightfully recognized for making some of the greatest gains of late in math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Nevertheless, at the fourth - grade level, a 10.7 point lead in math scores evaporated into a 4.2 point lag behind public schools.

She also that the difference could be a result of efforts nationwide to recruit more qualified teachers, and cautioned that any explanation for the similarity in math scores is just speculation.

Cesar Chavez Public Charter School earned «Tier 1» status from the D.C. charter board this year, a milestone achieved by just six charter high schools in the city that followed a jump in its math scores.

This explanation would seem, however, to imply that we would see less persistence in math scores than in reading scores, because the skills required to master a series of mathematical skills are believed to change more rapidly over time than the skills required for reading.

Second, we find that these observed trends in math scores persist even after controlling for the cross-cohort differences in observed student characteristics.

In four months, after receiving a School Improvement Grant for transformation, bringing in a new principal and implementing a Continuous Improvement Plan which included use of DreamBox Learning, West Seattle Elementary posted the highest growth in math scores in the Seattle School District, 2.5 times greater than the average math gains for the district.

The Reno - area school district found a 21 - point difference in math scores and a 20 - point difference in English - Language Arts (ELA) scores between students with low and high social and emotional competencies.

In that middle school, two of every seven students come from economically challenged homes; overall they had mixed results on state tests of academic achievement, but there were slight gains in math scores for students in the blended learning program.

«We saw about a 20 percent gain in our math scores.»

Buckley acknowledged that the gains from 2009 to 2011 were modest, taking as an example the one - point rise in math scores among fourth - graders.

More important, using the reports from teachers and principals to determine the amount of technology available and in use in the schools, we found that 42 percent of the variation in math scores and 12 percent of the variation in English scores could be explained by the addition of technology in the school.

A team from Rutgers University is analyzing the NAEP data to try to identify the reasons for the drop in math scores.

Because many students did not attend at a high level, and some didn't attend at all, the average benefits for all of these students were smaller and not statistically significant, with the exception of a modest but educationally meaningful boost in math scores in the fall after the first summer equivalent to 15 percent of a year's learning.

(An accompanying editorial was more explicit: «Paterson saw a decrease in math scores in eight of nine grade levels.