Sentences with phrase «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.

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

Studies show kids from divorced families also score lower on achievement tests.

After all, helping children do well on an achievement tests is of little value in itself.

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.

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

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.

Promoting SEL in the classroom can lead to student gains such as increased social and emotional skills, improved attitude, and up to 11 % improvement on achievement tests.

For instance, if a student's performance were reported for every item on an achievement test, one by one, this would be the smallest grain size available.

High - achieving, low - income students are less likely to pursue rigorous coursework or to score highly on achievement tests.

List and his colleagues found a struggling school district: Only 64 percent of students met minimum state requirements on achievement tests.

In fact, these skills facilitate better performance on achievement tests despite treated children performing no better on IQ tests.

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.

Typically, students in charter schools perform 2 - 3 grades and 30 points higher on achievement tests than their counterparts in traditional public schools.

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

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.

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.

Crellin — which ranked as the state's No. 1 elementary school on achievement tests in 2010, according to The Baltimore Sun — was nearly shut down last year because of the district's budget crisis.

A new study suggests that spanking is associated with higher levels of mental health problems and aggression in kids as well as lower scores on achievement tests later in life.

Moving from a narrow definition of student success that traditionally relies on achievement test scores and grades

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 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).

And American children fare poorly on achievement tests compared with children in most other developed countries.

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.

Teacher value - added scores «fade out» over time: knowing that a student had a teacher with a high value - added score one year provides little information about how well that student will fare on achievement tests several years later.

Because she attends a magnet school for gifted adolescents, scores at the 99th percentile on achievement tests, has an IQ that indicates superior intelligence, is highly creative, and has extraordinary writing ability.

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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

If the grade equivalent score is significantly above the current grade on any achievement test, you might consider out - of - level testing to get a better idea of the child's true level.

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).»

Numerous studies have shown that that the students of Board - certified teachers outperform their peers in other classrooms on achievement tests.

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.

The 2001 law, which was replaced in 2015 with President Obama's Every Student Succeeds Act, linked the results on achievement tests to a wide range of political and administrative outcomes, from funding of school programs to individual teacher salaries.

«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).

The effects of a one - year staff development program on the achievement test scores of fourth - grade students

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

Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents» level of formal education or their family's household income.

My aim in the current brief is to consider a key aspect of the relevance of value - added scores: their predictive validity — whether teachers who produce high value - added on achievement tests also engender lasting cognitive and non-cognitive skills that help prepare their students for success in later life.

Not only did the children who experienced an intentionally aligned pre-K-3 grade experience outperform their peers on achievement tests in third grade and seventh grade, but they also had fewer grade retentions by age 15 and fewer special education placements by age 18.

My experiences testing gifted children with Aspergers have varied from no difficulties during testing and an apparent enjoyment of the test situation to one young man who required several days to test (instead of one) because it was felt he couldn't function before later in the day and had serious motor problems that lengthened the time it took to complete any written work on the achievement test.