Sentences with phrase «income on student test scores»

A 2004 study established the positive effect of even modest increases in family income on student test scores.

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In your article around Baltimore's technology gap («Computer - based tests a challenge for low - income students, some Baltimore teachers say,» April 22), we read that students who took the PARCC scored lower when they took the test on a computer than when they used paper and pencil.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

Using student - level data from two states, Harvard Professor Martin West and I found that 40 to 60 percent of schools serving mostly low - income or underrepresented minority students would fall into the bottom 15 percent of schools statewide based on their average test scores, but only 15 to 25 percent of these same schools would be classified as low performing based on their test - score growth.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

Specifically, I separated out the effects on test - score gains of a student's race and ethnicity, as well as accounted for the influence of a student's peers, by evaluating the influence of demographic characteristics of the student body, including average income level and percentage of minority students.

Student scores on language arts tests are the single most reliable academic predictors of later income.

Perhaps the most reasonable way to compare charters and DPS - operated schools is to analyze school test scores and percentages of low - income students together, on the same scatter plot.

Florida's scholarship students are among the most disadvantaged — the average household income of scholarship families was only $ 24,067 this year, 4.5 percent above the poverty line — yet on math and read tests, they still score near the national median among all students from all income ranges.

Private school vouchers have a generally positive track record in their impacts on test scores, and evidence suggests that they can increase the educational attainment of low - income minority students.

To no one's surprise, that graph shows that in every country students who come from higher - income families score higher on math and reading tests.

In addition to our main experiment testing the ECO-C Intervention's effects on our target group of high - achieving, low - income students, we also used the same approach to study its effects on students who meet the same test - score criteria but who have estimated family income above the bottom one - third or attended a feeder high school.

According to a 2002 study of children in Dane County, Wisconsin, by urban - policy consultant David Rusk, low - income children at schools with a middle - class majority scored 20 - 32 percent higher on standardized tests compared with what their scores would be at schools with a lower percentage of middle - class students.

Our data included each student's answers on each year's test; which school and classroom each student was in; each student's previous and future test scores; and demographic variables including each student's age, sex, race, and eligibility for the federal school lunch program, a widely used proxy for family income.

The figure also shows how schools serving low - income students are punished by accountability systems based on average test scores.

In the state's annual reports on test score gains, the researcher has repeatedly taken note of the lower average income for scholarship students.

A decade ago, the No Child Left Behind Act ushered in an era of federally driven educational accountability focused on narrowing the chasms between the test scores and graduation rates of students of different incomes and races.

The final piece of an eight - year, $ 10 million research project on KIPP, whose mission is to help low - income students graduate from college, found that campuses across the nation continued to increase test scores at every grade level over the past five years.

The recent ubiquity of standardized test scores has provided new data on just how poorly some schools are performing — particularly schools filled with lower - income and minority students, whose parents make up an important Democratic voting base.

Deasy had called for using a district - developed, value - added method of interpreting a teacher's impact on students» test scores, taking into account a student's family income and ethnicity.

In the statewide math test, only 30 percent of low - income students scored proficient or advanced on...

Likewise, the average student from a low - income family scores much lower on such tests than students from higher - income families.

He was a co-author of a study that showed that teachers who helped students raise standardized test scores had a lasting effect on those students» future incomes, as well as other lifelong outcomes.

Middle School, said some instructors might be more reluctant to take on low - income minority students if they are evaluated on test scores, which do not account for poverty and other factors teachers can not control but that are known to affect learning.

In your article around Baltimore's technology gap («Computer - based tests a challenge for low - income students, some Baltimore teachers say,» April 22), we read that students who took the PARCC scored lower when they took the test on a computer than when...

• Lincoln Elementary, a school with a large percentage of low - income students, was flagged this year as a low - performing «focus» school under the state's new accountability system based on state test scores.

In the statewide math test, only 30 percent of low - income students scored proficient or advanced on the test while only 22 percent of Latino students scored proficient or advanced.

States and districts mostly have opted to look at student growth, as opposed to raw test scores, because raw scores can disadvantage teachers with large numbers of low - income, limited - English or special needs students, who tend to score lower on standardized tests.

That measure, called Academic Growth Over Time, uses a mathematical formula to estimate how much a teacher helps students» performance, based on state test scores and controlling for such outside factors as income and race.

IMPACT was designed to control for variables like the class's income level and English - language proficiency, and scores teachers on two major factors: classroom skill, as determined by multiple evaluations, and results, based on students» improvement on standardized tests.

Though Brizard touts improvements in graduation rates and test scores among his accomplishments in his 3 1/2 years, opinion is sharply divided on whether he has made a significant difference in the performance of the district's largely low - income black and Latino students....

Students, who were overwhelmingly low - income and minority, succeeded in scoring high on state tests.

Narrowing the gulf on test scores and graduation rates between low - income students — many of whom are in the state's urban areas — and their more affluent peers has been a daunting obstacle in Connecticut for years.

In a curious choice, the «Odds» list is based on how well a school's low - income students score on standardized tests but does not take into account how many low - income students it has.

The lengthy list of school goals — including the percentage of low - income students Braeburn hopes to be scoring proficient on the fast - approaching Mastery Tests — are hung right by the door for all to see.

Like many public school districts nationwide, Mentor has a growing number of low - income students, who tend to score lower on math and reading tests.

Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents» level of formal education or their family's household income.

«While some charter high schools with a large percentage of low - income students score high on MCAS [Massachusetts standardized tests], these schools rank much lower on the SATs.

A majority (59 %) also say they are very concerned that students in lower - income areas are less likely than other students to be ready for college when they finish high school, and half (51 %) say they are very concerned that English Learners score lower on standardized tests than other students.

In a 2010 research review, Harvard University's Susan Eaton noted that racial segregation in schools has such a severe impact on the test score - gap that it outweighs the positive effects of a higher family income for minority students.

For example, on the mathematics portion of the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to test, poor students (among those from lowest quartile in family income), who attended schools that served the poorest families (a school in the highest quartile of those receiving free and reduced lunch), attained a mean score of 425.

Tutoring and other support for learning, such as TRiO programs, should be more available, with particular focus on students with low test scores and low incomes.

She wrote that «since teachers face pressure to improve scores and since poverty - stricken students generally underperform on high - stakes tests, schools serving low - income students are more likely to implement a style of teaching based on drilling and memorization that leads to little learning.»

Figure 6 plots 709 school districts in the State, based on 1) the percentage of low - income students in the district (the horizontal axis), and 2) the percentage of students in the District who scored above the 50th percentile in reading on the 2016 PARCC test (the vertical axis).

As expected, scores were far lower than on the old tests, especially for low - income and minority students.

In addition to being 21 percentage points more likely to graduate high school, students from low - income families scored slightly higher on standardized tests.

We know that special education students or low - income students or English language learners are going to score lower on tests, so their scores are all going up, on state tests across time, at least on average.

Value - added models generally use statistical methods to isolate the impact of a factor of interest (like being taught by a particular teacher) on an outcome (like a test score) by mathematically removing the effects of other factors (like student family income or prior performance levels).

This study examines the effects of private school competition on public school students» test scores in the wake of Florida's Corporate Tax Credit Scholarship (FTC) program which offered scholarships to eligible low - income students to attend private schools.

Wolf, Egalite, and Dixon used experimental methods to examine the impact of a privately - funded low - cost school voucher program on the test score outcomes of low - income students in Delhi, India.