Sentences with phrase «on achievement test»

A learning disability is thought to exist if the student's IQ scores are at least two standard deviations (30 points) higher than scores on the achievement test.

A similar finding came from «The Effects of Summer Vacation on Achievement Test Scores: A Narrative and Meta - Analytic Review» by H.

The seeming contradiction between the lack of persistence of value - added on achievement test scores and the significant impacts on adult outcomes frames an important puzzle for future research.

A student who scores low on an achievement test or does not demonstrate adequate growth over time is not hopeless.

Likewise, a student who scores high on an achievement test or demonstrates substantial growth may still have room to grow in some areas.

KNOWLEDGE BRIEF 15 by Stephen Raudenbush Student scores on standardized tests are used as measures for teacher accountability, but, arguably, helping children score well on an achievement test is of little value in itself.

The effects of summer vacation on achievement test scores: A narrative and meta - analytic review.

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.

Tenth - grade earth science students who received PBL earned higher scores on an achievement test than students who received traditional instruction.

We need to be assured that the scale on which we measure achievement is one of equal units: one student's five - point increase on an achievement test, from 15 to 20, must represent the same gain as another student's five - point increase from 25 to 30 (see Figure 1).

Tenth - grade earth science students who engaged in PBL earned higher scores on an achievement test as compared to students who received traditional instruction (Chang, 2001).

When discussing student performance on achievement tests, Barton notes that private or religious schools account for a disproportionately high number of National Merit Scholars and says that is because «one school utilizes religions principles and one does not.»

Most evaluations of early education programs show that such programs improve children's school readiness, specifically their pre-academic skills, although the distribution of impact estimates is extremely wide, and gains on achievement tests typically fade over time.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

Not surprisingly, the more teachers believed they could make a difference, the better both black and white students scored on achievement tests.

Perhaps it's because white students score higher on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.

Students who attend middle schools at risk of dropping out of high school As compared to students in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievement tests.

As is well known, the economic benefits of a college education have risen dramatically during the past quarter century, and substantial evidence shows that students with good grades or high scores on achievement tests tend to pursue more education.

These narrow goals will also give for - profit schools a powerful incentive to admit and encourage those students whom they expect to do well on achievement tests or who are likely to show the greatest value - added — that is, the greatest improvement in test scores.

As compared to students in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievement tests.

«Students who have highly effective teachers three years in a row score as much as 50 percentile points higher on achievement tests than those who have ineffective teachers for three years in a row.»

A study released earlier this month by Mathematica finds that students attending charter high schools in Florida scored lower on achievement tests than students in traditional public schools, but years later, the charter students were more likely to have attended at least two years of college and also had higher earnings.

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

Baseline test scores were included to adjust for the minor baseline differences between the treatment and control groups on the achievement tests and to increase the precision of the estimated impact.

And officials believe that contributes to low math and science scores on achievement tests.

While students showed gains on achievement tests after one year in the choice program, researcher Valerie Martinez of the University of Texas found that their families also had stronger educational backgrounds than those not in the program.

The study of teacher preparation models by Constantine et al., showing that students with an alternatively certified teacher did no worse on achievement tests than students whose teacher came through the traditional route, shed light on the effectiveness of different teacher training strategies.

Renzulli: The most important thing we can do to raise expectations is to broaden our concept of «achievement» beyond the rather simplistic notion that it is only what is measured on achievement tests.

In other findings, it says that charter schools» students score significantly below those in regular public schools on achievement tests, and it faults American students»...

Another intervention, Cognitive Acceleration for Science Education (CASE), which targets «general thinking skills,» enabled British schoolchildren to outperform their peers even two years later on achievement tests in science, math, and English.

Meanwhile, about 87 % of charter schools had 60 % or more of their students meet or exceed state standards on achievement tests; only about 65 % of regular district schools reached that threshold.

And a report from the Southern Regional Education Board, which supports increasing the number of middle students taking Algebra I, found that among students in the lowest quartile on achievement tests, those enrolled in higher - level mathematics had a slightly higher failure rate than those enrolled in lower - level mathematics (Cooney & Bottoms, 2009, p. 2).»

But on the achievement tests given to all D.C. students, the SEED and Maya Angelou results, like those of other city schools, are not very good.

According to a study conducted by the American School Food Service Association, children with insufficient protein intake scored the lowest on achievement tests.

You can not compare standard scores on achievement tests to IQ scores.

Research reaching back to the 1950s agrees that hungry and malnourished children have shorter attention spans, cause more disruptions in the classroom, and score lower on achievement tests.

I've carefully cited and quoted the relevant research and drawn the obvious conclusion — active portfolio management based on achievement tests is likely to make harmful errors and unnecessarily restrict options.

«And the growth they've seen on achievement tests is consistent with some of the highest - performing charter school networks out there, and that's who we're competing against,» he added.

For example, high turnover of students throughout the year can affect the gains students make on achievement tests; and, if the class size is small, the scores of only a few students can affect the size of the gains.

Economists using sophisticated statistical methods have found that students score higher on achievement tests when their teachers have opportunities to work with colleagues over a longer period of time and share their expertise with one another (Jackson & Bruegmann, 2009).

In typical evaluation studies, talented students from accelerated classes outperform non-accelerates of the same age and IQ by almost one full year on achievement tests» (Kulik, 1992).

Value - added estimates for a teacher can fluctuate for a variety of reasons, many not necessarily related to actual effectiveness at producing student gains on achievement tests.

For one thing, economists have concluded that students earn higher scores on achievement tests when their teachers have more opportunities to work with effective teaching colleagues.

A landmark Colorado law that ties teacher evaluations to the progress of their students on achievement tests could help build momentum for a national movement that seeks to overhaul how instructors» tenure and pay is earned, education leaders say.

In fact, students in the taxpayer - funded private schools scored worse on achievement tests than those in public schools.

States differ in the amount budgeted for education, often with little to no apparent correlation between number of dollars spent and graduation rates or scores on achievement tests.

Parents: But homeschooled kids do better on achievement tests, have higher graduation rates than public school students and are actively recruited by top colleges.

She questions the reliance on achievement tests, which are given in the fall, at the beginning of the school year, rather than the spring.

In addition, the bill requires states to develop a plan to address problems in their «achievement gap schools» — the 5 percent of elementary and middle schools and the 5 percent of high schools in each state with the largest achievement gaps among student subgroups, or the lowest student subgroup performance based on achievement tests and graduation rates.

Employees would be eligible for year - end bonuses tied to a climate survey, student performance on achievement tests and the result of performance assessments completed by staff.