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.
Not exact matches
Comparing national test
scores, Catholic schools
in general (as with most private schools) perform better
in both reading and
math than public schools although the advantage is stronger
in reading than
in Math though the difference
in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be
due to the self selecting nature of the students
in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.
Due to our low statewide exam
scores in math prior to 2006, we decided to focus our first - year efforts on
math support for all students.
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).
In a lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this month, a group of teachers who do not instruct math or English - but nonetheless are being evaluated on those scores - have challenged the system on constitutional grounds of due process and equal protectio
In a lawsuit filed
in federal court earlier this month, a group of teachers who do not instruct math or English - but nonetheless are being evaluated on those scores - have challenged the system on constitutional grounds of due process and equal protectio
in federal court earlier this month, a group of teachers who do not instruct
math or English - but nonetheless are being evaluated on those
scores - have challenged the system on constitutional grounds of
due process and equal protection.
And ISTEP
scores plummeted about 20 percent
in 2015 when compared to the previous year
due to a hastily rolled out test that was based on Indiana - specific standards for
math and science instead of the Common Core.
(The lack of progress
in math is
due to the extremely strong
math scores in the charter sector, a value - added.3.
Many MMC students are first generation college students placed
in the program
due to a variety of factors including repetition of a grade
in elementary or middle school, below grade level reading and / or
math test
scores, or significant attendance problems.
This is
due in large part to federal school classification requirements, which were specific by design to label and differentiate treatment of schools based on whether they met annual reading and
math proficiency targets.2 This often led to narrow or simple pass / fail categorization systems based on schools meeting incrementally increasing state targets for test
scores and graduation rates.