Sentences with phrase «initial test score effects»

As a result of our findings of no consistent statistical association between the achievement and attainment effects in school choice studies we urged commentators and policymakers «to be more humble» in judging school choice programs or schools of choice based solely or primarily on initial test score effects.

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Black children exhibited the familiar effect of an initial boost in test scores that faded away, leading the researchers to attribute the lack of sustained gains to the abysmal public schools in disadvantaged black neighborhoods.

Our use of annual gain scores provides an estimate of treatment effects based on the extent to which students at each school do better or worse than would be expected, given their initial test scores.

For example, it might be that high - value - added teachers work in particularly effective schools, and that students who attend these schools for sustained periods see not only high initial test scores but also favorable long - term effects.