Sentences with phrase «on achievement tests after»

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.

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However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased performance on standardized tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and better high school achievement.

At KIPP Ascend, where many fifth - graders start one or two grades behind in reading and math, after four years at the school, 100 percent of eighth - graders passed math and 94 percent passed reading on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test.

For example, David Sims has shown that after a 2001 Wisconsin law required schools to open after Labor Day, districts forced to delay their start dates saw their students» achievement on the state math test fall relative to districts that were unaffected by the law.

Researchers identified a «consistent, positive relationship between student exposure to high - quality intellectual assignments and students» learning gains on the test — even after controlling for race, socioeconomic class, gender, and prior achievement differences among classrooms.»

After almost five years, the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act already has made a significant impact on U.S. schools, based on improved test scores and a narrowing of the achievement gap, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

The study found that after multimedia technology was used to support project - based learning, eighth graders in Union City, New Jersey, scored 27 percentage points higher than students from other urban and special needs school districts on statewide tests in reading, math, and writing achievement.

«The rash of standardized testing after the No Child Left Behind Act became law in the early 2000s did not raise achievement averages very much,» he observes, but the backlash that has led states to ease back on testing isn't being replaced by anything that's apt to work better.

Students who use the voucher to enroll in private schools end up with much lower math achievement than they would have otherwise, losing as much as 13 percentile points on the state standardized test after two years.

Research has shown that after - school programs focused on social and emotional development can significantly enhance student self - perceptions, school connectedness, positive social behaviors, school grades, and achievement test scores, while reducing problem behaviors (Durlak et al., 2010).

We estimate the impact of tracking on student achievement by comparing the postintervention (18 months after the experiment began) test scores of students in the tracking and nontracking schools.

The achievement effects of choice programs after just one or two years may well turn out to be misleading indicators of the longer - term effects on test scores and attainment.

An earlier evaluation found that after two years, Higher Achievement had statistically significant positive impacts on both math and reading test scores.

After analyzing a truly staggering amount of data, the researchers conclude that teacher effectiveness can be measured by using «value - added» analysis of student achievement growth on standardized tests.

Poring over school records, he noted a pattern of significantly higher scores on tests of academic achievement and cognitive ability, including IQ tests, up to four years after the program's end.

On top of that, the Common Core is set up so that it is very difficult for teachers to go back and reteach content from last year, so getting results months after the administration of the test will do nothing to aid remediation or close achievement gaps.

This is a worthy goal but from then until now the achievement gap has only widened, even after all the testing, school closures and billions of tax dollars spent on educational reform schemes.

I think after another generation of a horrible achievement gap, we have to make all schools more focused on tests, tutoring and teacher quality and stop prioritizing adult jobs over children's scores and achievement.

A fundamental shift in how a disability is identified, making diagnostic decisions only after intervention rather than simply because a student's achievement test score is lower than the score on an intelligence test would predict

February 2012 — The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research found that four years after undergoing dramatic reform efforts, including turnarounds, low - performing elementary schools in Chicago closed the achievement gap in test scores by almost half in reading and two - thirds in math compared to similar schools that did not receive intervention.

And after years of struggling to meet academic goals set by the state, the district has seen student achievement improve in certain measures — almost all grade levels showed positive growth in reading and math on 2015 - 16 state tests.

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

Educational outcomes are shaped by many factors, but research shows that teacher quality is the most important in - school factor influencing student achievement.59 Of course, other out - of - school factors, which are often caused by poverty, can also influence student outcomes.60 Because teacher quality has been shown to have a measurable impact on standardized test scores, some academics have started trying to directly measure the impact of Act 10 on student outcomes by examining how students fared on standardized tests after its passage.

After learning to use the Essential Skill Inventories as a competency framework, and to consistently personalize instruction to help each child build essential skills, proficiency rates on grade 3 state achievement tests increased from 37 % in literacy to over 85 %, and from 59 % in math to over 90 % proficiency.

After establishing what Ripley describes as a more rigorous core curriculum nationally, with over 100 approved curricula that teachers can use at the local level, Poland began to see gains in their student achievement scores on the PISA test.

In a study out of the American University Center of Provence, researchers tested American students» achievement on the TEF, a diagnostic exam used to assess international students» French abilities, before and after one semester of their study abroad experience.

In another study, observations of peer victimization during class time predicted restricted growth within one academic year on students» state - based standardized reading achievement test scores, after statistical control of their previous reading achievement test scores, ADHD symptom severity, and ability grouping (i.e., tracking) in their classroom [30].