Sentences with phrase «lower test scores when»

This school had lower test scores when we started, but as we continued to develop the relationship between home and school, a strange thing happened.

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It's counter-intuitive, but Grant says a study involving a math test has confirmed the finding: «When the defensive pessimists distracted themselves with another task right before the math test, their scores were about 25 percent lower than when they listed the most extreme outcomes that could happen in the test, and how they might fWhen the defensive pessimists distracted themselves with another task right before the math test, their scores were about 25 percent lower than when they listed the most extreme outcomes that could happen in the test, and how they might fwhen they listed the most extreme outcomes that could happen in the test, and how they might feel.

He dutifully put candidates through personality testing, but when a low score seemed to discredit his favorite prospect, he decided to go with his gut.

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.

When members of Wiltshire Church took the world view test described in chapter 6, the congregation made the highest empiric and lowest charismatic scores of any church yet tested.

In the Houston study, when there was some minimal improvement in test scores, it was only among the highest - achieving students, not the low achievers.

When I explain that teaching kids to overvalue external measures of success short - circuits their development as self - regulating individuals — the true foundation of a productive life — a shocking number of parents respond that you can't undo bad grades and low test scores, but you can always catch up on the emotional stuff later — a tragic misapprehension.

I don't believe in fast food, and was intrigued when I read a study that suggested that the more often kids eat the junk, the lower they score on standardized tests.

Always remember, when given a test of their knowledge of current events regular viewers of Faux News scored lower than folks who did not read a newspaper — or watch any TV news.

Similarly, if replacing the lowest - ranked school in the survey with a top - quintile school, student test scores would improve by 0.39 of a standard deviation using a conventional VAM, and 0.53 of a standard deviation when using the MIT team's own VAM method.

However, when tests include cognitively challenging questions that require elevated critical thinking, females and lower socioeconomic students score lower than their male or high - status peers, even though the students have equal academic ability.

«But when we hold mathematics ability test scores constant, effectively taking it out of the equation, we see boys still rate their ability higher, and girls rate their ability lower.»

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.

2/11/2008 UC San Diego Team Shows Correcting Poor Vision Can Help a Preschooler's Performance Preschoolers with poor vision have lower scores in developmental testing indicative of success in school performance, but those scores improve significantly within six weeks when the children are given prescription glasses, according to a new study b...

Unlike the critics and agreeing with the low - score users, I knew when I beta tested this game that I wasn't going to pay more than $ 10.

However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).

The Every Student Succeeds Act pushes states to move beyond test scores in gauging school performance and gives them all sorts of new flexibility when it comes to funding, turning around low - performing schools, and more.

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.

When we see low test score performance we are often misdiagnosing the problem as poor content instruction when it may in fact be insufficient development of student character skiWhen we see low test score performance we are often misdiagnosing the problem as poor content instruction when it may in fact be insufficient development of student character skiwhen it may in fact be insufficient development of student character skills.

When it comes to math, the problem may be worse — many students experience math anxiety, low self - confidence, or overwhelming amounts of academic pressure, which can disrupt learning, leading to lower grades and test scores.

When states set the bar too low — by setting a low cut - score to demonstrate proficiency on a state test — it conveys a false sense of student achievement to kids, parents and teachers This website will help parents see how their states are doing and what they can do to get involved.

With respect to students and test scores, reversion to the mean suggests that students with scores in the upper or lower tail of the test - score distribution are likely to perform closer to the average when tested more than once.

The motivation for Mexican education reform is driven by high grade retention, high dropout rates, and low test scores — even when compared with children from other Latin American countries.

American Lessons: When Social Inequality is Educational Inequality Helsinki University Bulletin, June 15, 2012 «According to [Dean Kathleen] McCartney, American public schools have been suffering from low test scores, high dropout rates and problems related to prejudice.

In other words, should students from low - income families or families that speak English as second language be given some leeway when it comes to testing cut - off scores?

For example, voters from precincts with lower test scores might respond more strongly when test scores improve than do voters from precincts with test scores that already were very high.

To the contrary, when schools serving similar populations were compared across the state of Indiana, and poverty was controlled for, those schools with relatively low suspension rates had higher, not lower test scores

It's also worth noting that there are many additional ways to measure student outcomes and success beyond test scores, which most parents rank low when it comes to choosing schools for their children.

We may not agree on what test scores can tell us, but I'm heartened that we concur that there are times when officials must act to address low performance.

Students with the lowest scores on the placement test benefited similarly from taking statistics when compared with students with higher scores.

When Congress passed charter school legislation for Washington, D.C., in 1995, our public schools were a national disgrace, characterized by decrepit buildings, a meddling school board, patronage - based employment, sky - high truancy, and some of the nation's lowest graduation rates and test scores.

We should not be surprised when we look at standardized test scores from private schools and see that these students are scoring lower.

Charters must follow the state's «core content standards,» and can be shut down when their scores on state test are too low.

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.

And now with multiple measures, understanding which schools have low performance is not as straightforward as when we were only measuring test scores, as uninformative as they may have been.

«Overall, students have higher test scores in years when their teacher shares their race, but this was particularly true for elementary students and particularly those students who are lower - achieving in previous years,» she said.

The study found that Spanish - speaking students earn lower grades in advanced courses than non — Spanish - speaking students, but these differences disappear when students have the same GPA and test scores in the prior year and attend the same school.

But when she compared the end - of - year test scores of low - income children who had attended preschool to those who hadn't, she found that low - income preschoolers who had attended preschool classes with peers from other economic strata performed the best.

First — test scores fell under Covington and weeks before he took the job in Michigan the state confirmed that test scores were lower and that we met FEWER benchmarks towards accreditation than when he started.

There is always a big hullabaloo when American students score average on international tests, but the fact is that American kids in very low - poverty schools score as high or higher than anybody else on the planet.

And here in Connecticut, we know, thanks to Steven Adamowski, Hartford's former superintendent of schools, who presently serves as Malloy's «Special Master» for the Windham and New London schools that when you keep one out of every ten students from taking the Connecticut Mastery Tests, your test scores go up, as long as the 10 percent are the lowest performing students.

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...

Taft's student body is 73 percent low - income, and when Williamson arrived at the school 10 years ago test scores were low, morale was dismal, and student behavior was out of control.

Still, Robinson says EdPower is on track to turn the school around by 2016, the deadline set two years ago ago when the state intervened for low test scores.

He says the Committee will likely consider Bennett's proposal to shorten the timeline the state uses to determine when to intervene in schools with chronically low test scores — even if the legislature doesn't create a timeline for district - level takeover.

Researchers at Stanford have found that, when used correctly, technology does indeed help boost test scores for low - income students.

Further studies have shown that even when students in high - poverty schools have greater access to technology than their peers in low - poverty schools, their test scores remain lower.

A reach school is a college that you have a chance of getting into, but your test scores, class rank and / or high school grades are a bit on the low side when you look at the school's profile.

ELL students and students with disabilities tend to score lower on standardized tests, therefore charter schools look higher performing when they do not have either subgroup.

The U.S. Department of Education's massive «Prospects» study in the 1990s found exactly this when it compared test scores from a standardized test to student grades in high and low poverty schools.