Sentences with phrase «math test scores»

It found no statistically significant improvement in math test scores for students who participated in the program.

It found no statistically significant improvement in reading or math test scores for students participating in the program.

By year four, there was no statistically significant difference in math test scores between students who remained in private schools and the matched comparison group.

Additionally, our study focuses on math test scores in grades 4 — 8.

Under his leadership, the school has seen a dramatic increase math test scores.

It found positive impacts on reading and math tests scores as well as reductions in special education and grade retention in each grade through the end of elementary school.

There were no differences in math test scores among students whose parents had low math anxiety, and no differences in reading achievement for parents with different levels of math anxiety.

In the paper, I measure teacher performance by estimating each teacher's contribution to her student's math test score growth.

Students engage in an interactive project to see if physical activity, sleep habits and healthy eating can affect math test scores.

A new analysis of reading and math test score data from across the country confirms just how much socioeconomic conditions matter.

For the past several decades, American education reformers have focused on reading and math test scores as the primary means of holding schools and teachers accountable for improving student performance.

Secondary schools implementing the turnaround model had larger improvements in math test scores than those implementing the transformation model.

The figure's vertical axis displays the average math test scores of students in each country after adjusting for all of the control variables in the model, with the exception of the variable measuring the use of performance pay.

Eric Taylor, a PhD student who studies the economics of education at Stanford's Center for Education Policy Analysis, found that increasing the amount of time struggling students spend in math class improved math test scores, but the gains did not last in the long run.

Thus, using the PISA 2006 microdata, we can calculate the PISA math test score at which the 93.96 th percentile (100.00 — 6.04) of the U.S. student population performs.

DCPS ELEMENTARY TEST SCORES DOWN — DECLINES IN READING AND MATH Michelle Rhee, unaccountable & unqualified Chancellor «The DCPS had lower math test scores in grades 4 and 8 in 2009, and District African - American test scores went down»....

Our primary results are based on the 11,507 students with 8th - grade math test scores within 10 percentile points of the cutoff used to assign students to double - dose algebra.

* Offered extra-curricular tutoring to prepare students for state exams; raised average math test scores from 75 % to 86 %.

Despite an A in algebra and excellent state math test scores, she had to fight to get into the ninth - grade geometry course that would keep her on track to take Advanced Placement calculus during her senior year.

Concerns about the effectiveness of Discovery Learning began to be raised in 2011 when math test scores began to drop.

Another study found that countries that gave students more math homework actually had lower overall math test scores than those that gave students less math homework...»

We rely upon math test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and various international tests to provide data on the cognitive skills of each state's adult workers.

Since 2003, the average standardized math test scores among fourth graders in Newark schools have risen from 45 percent to 79 percent.

Giving teachers both the lesson plans and support had a positive, significant effect on students» end - of - year math test scores, according to the study, which was published as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

And next to each named teacher is a «value added measure,» a figure that's supposed to represent how effective he is based on how much his students» reading and math test scores surpassed what you would expect them to be.

It's well known that NCLB's narrow focus on reading and math test scores meant that too many students, especially poor students, ended up with little in their school day other than preparation to take tests in math and reading.

Over the years, the public education system became vulnerable to education fads - methods of teaching that were unproven but widely adopted, and recent studies are showing us an alarming rate of decrease in math test scores READ MORE HERE.

More than 90 % of New York fourth - grade ELL students who took proficiency tests were in schools that reported math test scores for ELL students.

A study with Educational Testing Service (ETS), which used logistic regression, found that students» engagement and computer use, particularly their home Internet use and computer use for self - regulated learning, explained 14 % of the variance in their 2006 math test scores over and above 2005 scores.

Adding one troubled student to a classroom of 20 students results in a decrease in student reading and math test scores of more than two - thirds of a percentile point (2 to 3 percent of a standard deviation).

The program's benefits were equivalent to closing nearly two - thirds of the average gap in math test scores between white and black students, or the equivalent of what the average American high school student learns in math over three years.

Hear him explain how DreamBox is the best solution for his schools because it helps students improve math test scores to better prepare them for college and career.

And attending a school in which blacks and Hispanics make up more than 75 percent of the student body lowers achievement of black, Hispanic, and Asian students but does not affect white students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whites).

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.

And we'd have to know that the NWEA and state math test scores are valid predictors of later life outcomes.

The results of our main impact analysis on third grade math test scores are shown below in Figure 1 (the right four sets of bars labeled 1 - 4 on the horizontal axis, and the left three bars in each six - bar set).

The No Child Left Behind Act — and similar reforms at national, state, and local levels — equated success with boosting reading and math test scores for low - achieving youngsters.

A randomized study in Chicago also found large gains in math test scores from implementing mandated, intensive tutoring.

Nearly 20 years ago, a large - scale study led by psychologist Janet Hyde of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, found a «trivial» gap in math test scores between boys and girls in elementary and middle school.

Although the students did perform the tasks necessary to get paid, their math test scores, at the end of seven months, hadn't changed at all, on average.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.