Sentences with phrase «in test scores where»

If a teacher is teaching in a district where 35 % of the students are at goal, is a 5 % increase in test scores better or worse than a 1 % increase in test scores where 85 percent of the students are at goal.

Likewise, because test scores are often used as a proxy for school quality, it is not so surprising to see improvements in test scores where schools are subjected to more competition.

Not exact matches

It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

So were the average GMAT scores of its entering classes, which tended to range near 600, more than 100 points below the best schools, which typically report scores in the 700 - plus range on an entrance test where the highest possible score is 800.

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.

And in each one, the situation is the same — there's one neighborhood where poverty is concentrated, where crime rates are higher and test scores are lower and good jobs are pretty much nonexistent.

We have found that eliminating valedictorian status and class rankings has reduced stress at certain schools — especially those where achievement in the form of grades and test scores and college admission rates is valued above all other traits.

We love the seat, but have noticed that over the past few months, two tests published in Norwegian media (where we live) have given the Multi-tech a bad safety score, even RF it has been classified as not satisfactory.

Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co located.

But she admitted there is still a large gap in the test scores of children from richer schools, where around two - thirds scored highly on the tests, and the results in poorer schools.

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education, points out that test scores dropped much more dramatically in schools with high rates of poverty where school funding is significantly lower.

$ 10 million in new funding will be used to provide extra help to schools where test scores dropped last year.

But she admits there's still a large gap in the tests scores of children from richer schools, where around two thirds scored highly on the tests, and the results in poorer schools.

Indeed it may be more pressing, he notes, in school districts where test scores have been perennially low, and where larger disparities in school quality may exist.

It was these two sets of tests where participants who engaged in weekly sexual activity scored the most highly, with the verbal fluency tests showing the strongest effect.

In a random effects analysis, ALE scores were tested against a null hypothesis of random distribution across the brain, thereby identifying those regions where empirical ALE values were higher than could be expected by chance.

In the case of a significant F score, a Bonferroni post hoc test was performed to determine where significant differences lay.

Enter Jane Chase (Shue, playing a character apparently named after Tarzan's commonlaw wife and for her function in the film's second half), a student at the college where Dr. Phillip teaches who's there through some kind of ill - fated scholarship program rewarding legendarily bad test scores.

[1] We ran two sets of simulations: one where students opt - out randomly, and another in which opt - out occurs among the highest - performing students in each classroom (as measured by their prior test scores).

It'll boost their reading scores; prepare them to succeed in middle school, high school, and beyond, where U.S. test scores (and other metrics) crash; and equalize opportunity in American society in ways that no anti-poverty or compensatory education program can possibly do.

However, it would be a waste not to use the transition year to tell students, teachers and parents where they stand relative to the new standards, and that means giving all students the opportunity to participate in the test, scoring all their tests and providing them with a score.

A similar dynamic played out in Washington, where test scores dropped across the board last year, possibly because the tests inadvertently got harder.

It's moving in the exact opposite direction of teacher evaluation systems everywhere else, including places like Washington, D.C., where we've learned from experience that test scores should make up less, not more, of a teachers» evaluation.

The report in question, authored by Arizona State University researchers Audrey Amrein and David Berliner, purported to examine student - performance trends on national exams in states where legislators have attached «high stakes» to test scores.

The letter says that the district has never evaluated the teachers using student test scores, and, as a consequence, has never told teachers where they stood and counseled them on how to improve in terms of increasing their students» learning — all of which are required by the law.

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If charter schools were primarily established in response to dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, they would tend to be located in areas with low - quality traditional public schools where students would tend to make below - average test - score gains.

Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

Not surprisingly, examination of the district's test scores objective - by - objective showed that students did well in areas where the textbooks were strong and performed poorly in other areas.

In addition, talented teachers might avoid working in high - needs schools where test scores are low, or could leave the profession entirelIn addition, talented teachers might avoid working in high - needs schools where test scores are low, or could leave the profession entirelin high - needs schools where test scores are low, or could leave the profession entirely.

Ackerman's first superintendent position was in the Washington D.C. Public Schools from 1998 to 2000, where she made key changes to the system that included reworking the schools budget, revamping instruction resulting in boosted test scores, and reorganizing staff structure.

This rich dataset allows us to study students» math and reading test - score growth from year to year in grades four through eight (where end of year and prior year tests are available), while also taking account of differences in student backgrounds.

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.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

As an example of the limitation of this measure, note that the United States is coded as a country where teacher salaries can be adjusted for outstanding performance in teaching on the grounds that salary adjustments are possible for achieving the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification or for increases in student achievement test scores.

Virginia's Maggie Walker Governor's School eases «brain drain» angst by reporting each student's test scores to his or her «home school,» where they get included in the school's state report card.

The smallest differences after two years were observed in New York City, where the combined test scores of African - American students attending private schools were 4.3 percentile points higher than those of the control group.

The simple correlation between spending per student and average TIMSS test scores is 0.13 in primary school and 0.16 in middle school, on a scale where 1.0 denotes an absolute positive correlation between the two variables and 0 signals no correlation (see figure 2).

A study of 1,450 Virginia secondary schools, published this month in Psychological Science, suggests that students» scores on state tests may be partly a function of where they live, how poor their classmates are, and whether they have access to competent teachers.

But it also possible that choice is particularly effective in high school (as compared to elementary school, where test score data typically comes from).

Any time standards change test scores drop as has been proven in states where the new tests have been implemented.

A blind spot in our technocratic impulse to improve outcomes (read: boost test scores) is that we forget that schools are also civic institutions where children go to become Americans.

He notes that his policy is based on the efforts of North Carolina, where significant gains were made in test scores last year.

In the Chicago Public Schools, where 85 percent of the 400,000 - plus students live below the poverty line, test scores, attendance, and teacher retention all went up during Duncan's seven - year tenure, while the dropout rate declined.

Skeptics of the «boy troubles» point to SAT scores, where males outperform females, without acknowledging the gender imbalances in the test - takers: far more poor and minority girls than boys take that test.

There's random error in student test scores; there's random variation in the particular group of teachers who complete a program in a given year; there's random variation in where those teachers end up working; and there's random variation in how responsive their students are.

The legislation also, as Layton reported, «require states to intervene with «evidence - based» programs in schools where student test scores are in the lowest 5 percent, where achievement gaps are greatest, and in high schools where fewer than two - thirds of students graduate on time.»

Charter - school advocates say the shift in resources is warranted because charters often excel where traditional schools have failed, posting stellar test scores even in impoverished neighborhoods with little history of academic success.

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