Sentences with phrase «math performance»

Yet there is a significant gap in achievement in math performance between low - income and higher - income children.

If student math performance didn't improve, teachers had to sign a contract promising to return some or all of the money.

So the second assumption must be that «poverty» has a bigger impact on math performance for fifteen - year - olds than for younger students.

Educators and researchers are finding that digital games can boost math performance for children as early as preschool.

Data solely about fifth grade math performance in a standardized test doesn't paint a whole picture.

One factor that affects math performance more than any other is confidence.

This information allows us to control for previous math performance and simultaneous French performance.

So what's an alternative hypothesis for the lackluster math performance of our fifteen - year - olds?

We have given special attention to math performance because math appears to be the subject in which accomplishment is particularly significant for both an individual's and a country's economic well - being.

The continuous effort can go a long way in future math performance.

This large scale study included over 6,000 students, comparing schools that used the program with schools of similar baseline math performance that did not use the program.

In the last nine years, Canadian math performance has dipped 14 points.

Each individual reported their stress levels in response to stressful speech and math performance stress tasks, and provided saliva samples for measurement of cortisol, commonly referred to as the stress hormone.

We created a map comparing state math performances to individual countries.

Nonetheless, in this situation, there is also a need to provide additional instruction for those students whose math performance is lowest.

Traditionally high math performance could exist without a student ever mastering written language skills.

So poverty alone can not explain mediocre math performance.

Thousands of students spanning 30 + countries have seen up to 90 % improvement in math performance after just 3 months.

In fact, the apparent impact on science performance was two - thirds the size of the effect on math performance.

What's a better hypothesis for the lackluster math performance of our fifteen - year - olds?

The association between student math performance and subsequent economic growth is very strong.

Even students in the third grade were missing kindergarten - level concepts, making it unrealistic to expect an immediate leap to third - grade math performance.

The study showed a significant increase in math performance, especially among low - income high school students.

The study's findings suggest that TenMarks Math improved average math performance by 8 percentile points on state tests in classes that completed at least one assignment per week during the school year.

Everyone agrees that average math performance among American 15 year olds is disappointing with the US ranking 36th among 65 nations and subregions.

U.S. math performance dropped precipitously since 2012, after dropping noticeably from 2009 to 2012.

A longtime advanced - math teacher at Ballard High School says there's a simple way to improve math performance among all students and narrow achievement gaps at...

The figure below compares a demographic - adjusted average - score - based measure to our growth - based measure of school math performance for each school in North Carolina.

For the past 5 years, he has led a vibrant team of math specialists in creating math performance assessments, curriculum, and rubrics.

The tests include a variety of question types and difficulty (approximately 30 items each in ELA and math), as well as an ELA and math performance task at each grade level.

When children were grouped according to pre study math performance, the results demonstrated that children with average and above average performance benefitted most from using the entire body in learning.

And another international exam, the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) showed back - to - back deterioration in math performance among American 15 - year - olds in 2012 and 2015.

But if there is some dispute about which Olympic medals to count, there is no question about American math performance: the United States does not deserve even a paper medal.

By 2000, math scores were roughly 0.3 standard deviations higher than predicted, an improvement about one quarter the size of the difference in math performance between Chicago students in consecutive grades in 1995.

Here lies the linchpin for our nation's poor math performance.

I gathered NAEP scores on fourth - grade math performance from the US from 1990 to 2013 and linked them to data on how good of a holiday season was had in the previous year (operationalized as consumer spending in November and December as measured by the ICSC - Goldman Sachs index).

While the effects that math and English teachers have on students» test scores in the year that they have them similarly persists in their own subject in subsequent years, the gains in English scores due to English teachers have far greater effects on students» subsequent math performance than the gains in math scores due to math teachers have on students» subsequent English performance.

The study, based on data collected by the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment, looked at the academic performances of 15 - year - olds in many countries and found that, in places where it is more common to use the Internet at school for schoolwork, reading and math performance declined between 2000 and 2012.

Even if you tweak these numbers a bit in one direction or another to account for various uncertainties, you reach the same bottom line: Those who say that student math performance does not matter are clearly wrong.

'' [The fact] that executive function, even in children this young, is significantly related to early math performance suggests that if we can improve executive function, we can improve their academic performance,» says Adele Diamond, professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience at the University of British Columbia.

Girls» math performance under stereotype threat: The moderating role of mothers» gender stereotypes.

The post-adolescent math performance bumps associated with more daylight prior to school are about the same for boys and girls alike.

Studies at the Mangels Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Attention at Baruch College at the City University of New York found that when math is taught in a stressful and high pressure atmosphere where students do not feel successful, this can lead to significant math anxiety which inhibits math performance.

U.S. students» math performance fell on the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), while students in Singapore, Finland, Japan, and Estonia emerged as top performers, according to test results released today.

Similarly, English language arts teachers might promote the ability to think logically and organize complex materials, which, in turn, benefits math performance.

John, just one more quick point about SFUSD math performance.