Sentences with phrase «on achievement tests later»

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Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

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 finding that family financial support enhances academic achievement in the form of test scores is consistent with other research on the impact of the EITC showing impacts on later outcomes such as college enrollment.

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.

The New York City Department of Education's stunning announcement that it intends to release teacher ratings based on student test scores and academic achievement is the latest example of a growing national movement to fix our country's broken public education system...

This means that if your 3rd grader receives a grade equivalent score on an individual achievement test of grade 5.8 in math, that she is working, at least on the questions that were asked, at the level of an average late 5th grader.

Promisingly, researchers have found that it is possible to orient students toward positive learning mindsets through low - cost interventions, including online programs that teach students about growth mindsets and purpose.29 According to Carol Dweck and her colleagues, ``... educational interventions and initiatives that target these psychological factors can have transformative effects on students» experience and achievement in school, improving core academic outcomes such as GPA and test scores months and even years later.»

The measure, which won approval in the Republican - led House of Representatives late Wednesday, would ease federally imposed achievement goals that critics say relied too much on standardized tests and were unrealistic for struggling public school systems such as Baltimore's.

The latest results on the most important nationwide math test show that student achievement grew faster during the years before the Bush - era No Child Left Behind law, when states were dominant in education policy, than over the years since, when the federal law has become a powerful force in classrooms.

IDEA later even admitted that its students in the Rio Grande Valley wore uniforms which were color - coded, not on the basis of grade or age, but on standardized test - score achievement, thus insuring the humiliation of older siblings by their more test - savvy younger brothers and sisters attending the same school!»

A month later, Relay submitted a revised application, claiming it had addressed these issues; the program was again shot down, this time for focusing its assessment training almost entirely on student achievement tests.

A / B Testing is the latest developer service that Amazon has launched (along with Achievements, Leaderboards, Whispersync across devices, In - App Purchasing, and 1 - Click Purchasing) that make it simpler than ever for app developers to concentrate on the differentiating parts of their apps rather than the undifferentiated infrastructure and engagement components.»