Sentences with phrase «on achievement tests tend»

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.

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Yet physically active children tend to outperform their inactive peers in the classroom and on tests of achievement.

Students who use newspapers tend to score higher on standardized achievement tests — particularly in reading, math, and social studies — than those who don't use them.

«These students tend to learn more deeply and they tend to perform better, not only on traditional achievement tests but also on assessments of more complex understanding,» adds Darling - Hammond.

For example, the Minnesota - Toronto study found that in schools with higher achievement on math tests, teachers tended to share in leadership and believed that parents were involved with the school.

And a new study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University — although not studying the important question of whether teachers who receive high scores on TAP evaluations tend to produce greater gains in their students» test scores — found that a small sample of secondary schools using TAP produced no higher levels of student achievement than schools that hadn't implemented the TAP program.

Research suggests that teachers who do well in classroom observations tend to have students who perform well on tests, but there is no definitive evidence yet suggesting that more intensive evaluations actually improve student achievement.

Even when they don't achieve good grades, they tend to score high on achievement tests, most often in the 95 - 99 percentile range.

For decades, the standardized test scores of California students have shown that achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity and class — while troubling — tended to narrow over time.

In particular, children who participate in high - quality early childhood development programs tend to have higher scores on math and reading achievement tests and greater language abilities.

As a recent issue brief on the achievement gap from the Educational Testing Service points out, schools having high numbers of minority students tend to have larger classes of 25 students or more, and the class size gap between high - minority schools and low - minority schools actually worsened between 2000 - 2004.

According to the findings, children of homeowners are likely to perform higher on academic achievement tests; tend to have fewer behavioral problems in school; and are less likely to become pregnant teenagers.