Sentences with phrase «low test scores results»

The issue was personal: In 2010, Cochran's years of low test scores resulted in placement on the district's list of campuses eligible for takeover by charter schools or other groups with a credible improvement plan.

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A different kind of surpise was the test result for Red Savina — it scored a rather low heat level of just 248,556 SHU.

Schools certainly feel the immediate costs of failing to prioritize wellness — poor test scores for students, lower standardized test scores school - wide, reduced funding resulting from absenteeism, which is why it is so important to share this report with school administrators and boards of education.

Any indicator that does not score 10/10 on the report card means more needs to be done (the scores are not like a test result where a lower score is good enough for a pass).

While lower test scores largely result from more difficult tests, they fly in the face of Mayor Bloomberg's constant assertions that everything in our schools was getting better, thanks to his leadership.

The researchers then compared the results from the brain imaging tests for the serotonin transporter to those two memory tests, and found that the lower serotonin transporters correlated with lower scores.

A study matching newborn glucose concentration screening results with fourth - grade achievement test scores suggests that early transient newborn hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) was associated with lower test scores at age 10, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

Only laboratory tests can determine a food's glycemic index, and the results can be unexpected: Apples score low, but cantaloupe scores high.

After adjusting the results to account for variability between each person's ability, they found that the black students» scored lower when they were told that the task was a test of their intellectual ability.

In a study involving dietary ketosis via a low carbohydrate diet (less than 10 percent of total calories), compared to subjects on a 50 percent carbohydrate diet, the low - carbohydrate subjects demonstrated better performance on memory tests, with higher scores being correlated to higher serum KB levels.14 A study using cultured mouse hippocampal cells showed that addition of the KB β - hydroxybutyrate (β - OHB) to cells exposed to Aβ resulted in no decrease in the numbers of dendrites or total neurons — two of the noted pathological changes in AD.

The results were striking: Across all demographic groups, the people who had higher scores on the measures of cardiovascular health did better on the mental tests than those who scored low.

The largest gains for the test — the Kentucky Instructional Results System, or KIRIS — came in reading and mathematics, with fewer students scoring at the «novice,» or lowest, level and more students scoring at the «proficient» and «distinguished» levels.

Another school profiled is the Denver School of Science and Technology, which enrolls a mostly - minority, 47 percent low - income student population and has achieved «national renown» for its results, including the second - highest longitudinal growth rate in student test scores statewide.

Results from the 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), released on 5 December, show Australia's average score was lower than those of 13 other countries, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Northern Ireland and England, which all tested in English, as well as other top - performing countries the Russian Federation, Finland and Poland.

When test scores came in showing results as low as the 39th percentile in math in those first few years, she and her staff resolved to make a change.

Henry Levin likewise asserts that «the evaluators found that receiving a voucher resulted in no advantage in math or reading test scores for either [low achievers or students from SINI schools].»

American teenagers scored lower in science than students in a majority of other industrialized countries participating in a prominent international exam, in results that testing officials said they released early after the scores unexpectedly slipped out abroad.

Recalling that black students have the lowest scores on both the reading and math tests, one can see that these results can be interpreted as the effects of peer achievement.

The scores used to determine whether students demonstrated proficiency on the test were set too low, resulting in unexpectedly high passing rates for the state's elementary and middle school students.

The authors did find that test score gains for lower - scoring students in lower - performing schools resulted in higher earnings for those students.

Rather than having regular check - ups on student progress, with relatively low stakes on those results, we'd have much higher stakes attached to a smaller number of test scores.

In fact, some Los Angeles students saw their test scores fall as a result of the 1996 statewide program, which sought to lower class sizes in kindergarten through the 3rd grade.

Low MCAS Scores Launch Dispute Over Test's Value and Use (Bay State Banner) Paul Reville weighs in on the results from a new MCAS, which debuted last spring in Massachusetts and resulted in plunging sScores Launch Dispute Over Test's Value and Use (Bay State Banner) Paul Reville weighs in on the results from a new MCAS, which debuted last spring in Massachusetts and resulted in plunging scoresscores.

The low group could be defined by sub-basement scores on achievement tests and wide gaps between groups on achievement - test results.

This pattern of test - score effects — showing positive results in urban areas with many low - income students, but neutral or even negative effects elsewhere — also appears in a national study of oversubscribed charter middle schools funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

The other study (Perkes 1967) produced mixed results: students whose teachers took more subject - matter coursework reported higher scores on an achievement test, but lower scores on the STEP, a test of higher - order thinking.

As a result, many always - D schools have similar or even lower test scores than F schools but have still managed to avoid receiving a failing grade.

Local educators did not mourn the death of CAP, since many local schools had received negative publicity as a result of their low test scores.

it will take an awful lot of explaining, carefully walking people through the tests, what they gauge, what results mean, how this cut score is actually better aligned with college than the old cut score, etc, to convince people that these new low scores are okay... will be interesting to see how that plays out.

In reading, however, we found no difference in the test - score gains achieved by F schools and low - performing non-F schools, suggesting that regression to the mean could be influencing our results in reading.

When ELL students are not isolated in these low - achieving schools, their gap in test score results is considerably narrower, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of newly available standardized testing data for public schools in the five states with the largest numbers of ELL students.

Repeating the analysis above with these two measures of parent characteristics added to the baseline control vector gives the following predictive effects for college attendance based on test scores which are somewhat lower than the results above using the baseline controls.

While no group of students scored particularly well, the PARCC test results released Tuesday highlighted wide disparities in achievement, including low levels of performance for special education students, minorities and the poor.

The SIG study's result that test scores did not improve is logically consistent with SIG not generating differences in what low - performing schools did to improve.

During the first four years of the study, voucher students took a low - stakes test, but in the final year of the study, policymakers increased the stakes by mandating that the test results be publicized and the scores improved.

DSST enrolls a mostly - minority, 47 percent low - income student population and has achieved national renown for its extraordinary results, including the second - highest longitudinal growth rate in student test scores statewide.

Summary: Students who took the 2014 - 15 PARCC exams via computer tended to score lower than those who took the exams with paper and pencil — a revelation that prompts questions about the validity of the test results and poses potentially big problems for state and district leaders.

Moreover, these high attrition rates mean that Black and other students of color often end up with inexperienced teachers, also resulting in lowered test scores.

The scores resulting from these tests validate the need for charter schools in low - income areas.

A similar study using data on students in Philadelphia found that living farther from school increased absences and resulted in lower grade point averages and test scores.

These schools generally enroll students from very poor families, have hard - working but dispirited teachers, have safety problems, and as a result, have had unacceptably low test scores and graduation rates for years.

Low performance on the Smarter Balanced standardized tests combined with high levels of chronic absenteeism and suspension rates were the most common factors that resulted in the low CORE scorLow performance on the Smarter Balanced standardized tests combined with high levels of chronic absenteeism and suspension rates were the most common factors that resulted in the low CORE scorlow CORE scores.

Not only would this lower the quality of the data, but it would also raise the stakes of the tests: If you think the stakes are too high now, imagine being a fifth grader in a school where your score determines the results of the entire school.

Each city score is an aggregate measure of low - income student results at the grade - subject level, weighted by number of students tested.

Inadequate results even on «basic skills»: Defenders of the Bush plan argue that low - scoring students need to get basic skills, the tests will identify those who need it, and so it is worthwhile.

What NAEP Results Say,» p. 32) counter claims that teaching broad concepts rather than isolated facts lowers test scores.

«The first time students take the [Smarter Balanced tests] will likely result in students» scoring lower,» Maldonado said.

Last years» test results were based on the percentage of students that scored above «minimal» — the lowest achievement level.

Documented student results better than those of comparable schools on a wide range of measures, including student test scores, student performances and demonstrations, success in later life, lower dropout rates, and parent and student satisfaction.

More than $ 40 million in federal grants awarded to some of Colorado's lowest - performing schools as part of a massive national turnaround effort is producing mixed results, with state officials suspending funding for five schools because of declining test scores.