Sentences with phrase «math scores among»

For instance, you might find that poor math scores among middle school boys highly correlate with low organization skills and arrive at a new strategy for improvement.

Eighth - grade math scores among the highest performers also improved substantially over the period, gaining 14 points nationally and 17 points in Texas (Figure 10).

Buckley acknowledged that the gains from 2009 to 2011 were modest, taking as an example the one - point rise in math scores among fourth - graders.

Even borderline iron levels were linked to lower math scores among adolescent girls in one study.

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Like, for instance, when he mentions that he was the first New Zealander to be selected as a Fulbright Scholar in entrepreneurship, or tells you he once spent two weeks in a coma after contracting malaria in Indonesia, or says he was among the highest - scoring secondary - school students on a national math exam.

Though the student bodies in her schools have an overall poverty rate of 77 percent, they regularly register among the highest - scoring schools on standardized math and reading tests.

As expected, the simple traffic light labeling of calorie content had a particularly strong impact among the subset of participants who scored poorly on a simple test of math ability (numeracy).

But they also showed that many youngsters — including some with otherwise good scores — were unsteady at fractional models, or word problems, which are among the 15 math standards that Washington schools are expected to teach their 4th graders.

TIMSS showed that U.S 12th graders scored among the lowest of 21 nations in general math and science.

To assess progress in math, for example, staff members look at CMT scores, failure rates, and honor rolls, among other things, to try to pinpoint shortcomings in the curriculum.

The corresponding changes among eighth - grade math scores are small only in comparison: 6 points nationwide, 11 points for black students, 10 points for Hispanic students, and 8 points for those students at the 10th percentile.

In the first full year after the storm, the Behrman scores were among the best in the city; nearly the entire fourth grade scored at grade level or above proficiency in English and math.

As shown in Figure 1, Portugal exhibits the lowest average combined test scores in math and science among the 18 countries in our sample, Singapore the highest.

For more than three decades, the United States has been scoring below the international average among participating nations on tests of math and science achievement.

They concluded that students who were allowed additional time on the entire exam would have scored no more than 10 points higher in verbal and 20 points higher in math, though there was no advantage whatsoever among students whose overall score in math was lower than 400.

After teachers like Joseph - Charles and Philkhana began applying the Rutgers techniques in the classroom, students showed more interest in math, and the math test scores at what were among the lowest - performing schools in the state began to soar.

Among students assigned to different teachers with the same Overall Classroom Practices score, math achievement will grow more for students whose teacher is better than his peers at classroom management (i.e., has a higher score on our Classroom Management vs. Instructional Practices measure).

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.

But on TIMMS, only eight nations have a higher average math scale score among eighth graders.

According to Florida's Annual Measure of Objectives [Excel file], in 2014, 70 percent of white students scored satisfactory or above in both reading and math while among black students, 39 percent scored satisfactoty or above in reading and 43 percent scored satisfactory or above in math.

In contrast, the math - score gains associated with having a career - ladder teacher actually appear to have been concentrated among students with teachers on the lowest rungs of the career ladder.

Our results demonstrate that, among students who enter in a typical grade, attending a charter school improves reading and math scores by an amount that is both statistically and substantively significant.

In 2009 and 2012, Finland saw drops in all three subjects — reading, math, and science — among its high - scoring test - takers — those who reached level 5 or 6 on PISA's six - point scale.

Among student subgroups, the study also finds that «grade configuration has a larger effect on the math scores of traditionally disadvantaged subgroups than on other students.

In the five years since adopting the SEL - oriented approach, Washoe schools have seen higher rates of attendance and scores on state reading and math tests, and fewer disciplinary infractions and suspensions among students with higher social and emotional skills.

Bourke, who has a master's degree in literacy from Columbia University, has been working to strengthen math and science, a perceived area of growth among parents and staff, he said, despite strong test scores.

Among Florida ELL eighth - graders at middle schools that do not have a sufficient number of white eighth - grade students, only about 10 % scored at or above the proficient level in math.

However, it turns out that the black children in our sample were less responsive to changes in socioeconomic status than the white children: a one - standard - deviation improvement in socioeconomic status for a black child was associated with a 0.18 standard deviation increase in math scores, compared with 0.32 among white children.

These low math scores have generated concern among British educators, who hope to see their rankings improve to match those of China.

Martin West, a professor of education at Harvard, states that «weaker scores among voucher recipients may be a result of the fact that public school performance is improving, particularly in the District, where math and reading scores at traditional public and public charter schools have increased quickly over the past decade.»

(Among 12th - graders, 38 % scored at the lowest performance level in math, a point lower than in 2005.)

But by the end of the first year, their scores on standardized tests showed the most improvement in English among district middle schools and exceptional growth in math, according to a Times analysis.

For example, among eighth - grade ELL students in Florida, about 30 % score at or above the proficient level in math if they attend a middle school that has a minimum threshold number of white students.

Nationally, average NAEP scores were also lackluster, with average math scores declining slightly among fourth - and eighth - graders, and in eighth - grade reading.

Among students attending regular BPS middle schools, blacks score about 0.7 σ below whites in language arts and 0.8 σ below whites in math.

In the latest report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Chinese mainland (consisting of the Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Guangdong provinces) ranked fifth among nations with the world's highest math scores.

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Carrell and Hoekstra find that adding one troubled student to a classroom of 20 students decreases student reading and math test scores by more than two - thirds of a percentile point and increases misbehavior among other students in the classroom by 16 percent.

Among those who remained in Florida through at least spring 2012, Haitian earthquake refugees scored an average of 1.35 standard deviations below the state mean in reading and 0.98 standard deviations below the state mean in math in spring 2011, one year after the earthquake.

Among black children, the results indicate that having a black teacher for a year was associated with a statistically significant 3 to 5 percentile - point increase in math scores.

The second innovation is the use of the Hispanic cohort's 10th grade basic math scores as a control for performance - based selection biases among the different language treatments.

Among the «talented tenth,» those in the top 10 percent of NAEP test - takers, reading scores have dropped four points since 1971, and math scores have not budged since they were first measured in 1978 (see Figure 1).

Moreover, ACT Inc., which began measuring college readiness as the American College Testing Program in the 1950s, reports that among the college aspirants who took its admission exams last year, only 21 percent of the graduating seniors attained scores high enough in all four subjects — English, reading, math, and science — to indicate that they wouldn't need to take a no - credit remedial course when they entered college.

Stanford economist Eric Hanushek notes in a new article for Education Next magazine that the black - white disparity in math and reading scores among 12th - graders today is not only significant but, even more disturbing, not much different from where it was a half - century ago.

According to the NAEP (2013) among 12th grade students only 26 percent of all students score at or above proficient levels in math, and 38 percent are proficient or better in reading.

Madison's strongest gains were among eighth grade math scores, with the percentage of black students scoring proficient gaining 8 percentage points, Hispanic students gaining 16 percentage points and low - income students gaining 6.5 percentage points over last year.

Meanwhile, Massachusetts, generally the top performing state in the nation, showed a significant decline in math and reading scores among high school seniors, falling 2 and 3 points respectively.

Warped opinions about our nation's public schools include: they are inferior to private schools; they are among the worst in the world in math and science; teachers should be fired if their students don't score at the national average, and on and on.

In the 2009 PISA scores released last year, the nation came in second in science, third in reading and sixth in math among nearly half a million students worldwide.

Among 12th grade students — remember that a significant group of students has already dropped out by this point — 26 percent score at or above proficient levels in math, and 38 percent are proficient or better in reading (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2013)