Our study provides the first evidence of positive and substantial long - run impacts of intensive math
instruction on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates.
In sum, although there may be some migration by high - performing students to APIP schools, schools that adopt APIP see better
scores on college entrance exams among students who have always attended their school.
The College Board's SAT data, for example, show that kids score
higher on that college entrance exam when they take top classes in the main subjects, such as calculus compared with geometry, British literature compared with English / language arts; physics compared with earth science, and European history compared with geography.
It may be that the improvements in SAT and ACT performance are not solely due to exposure to AP courses; a related increase in
effort on college entrance exams may have been caused by a heightened desire to get into a good college.
We find positive and substantial longer - run impacts of double - dose
algebra on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates, suggesting that the policy had significant benefits that were not easily observable in the first couple of years of its existence.
Yet, Troy Miller of the Tampa - based Florida College Access Network argued there is a link between families» income levels and how students
performed on college entrance exams.
The full Curriculum content in Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II is the minimum level of math required to do well on college entrance exams
Children in the experiment who were able to delay gratification, waiting until the researcher returned and claiming the bonus marshmallow, grew up to have fewer behavioral problems, higher
scores on college entrance exams, better attention spans and superior social relationships.
We push our children to get A's in high - level classes and top scores
on college entrance exams, and we pay dearly to make that happen (some tutors in Manhattan earn $ 1,000 an hour, Levine said).
All three studies achieved very high response rates on all data collections, whether teacher surveys, classroom observations, collection of teachers» scores
on college entrance exams or precertification exams, student achievement tests, collection of student data from district administrative records, principal surveys, or interviews with program officials.
Those kids were never put in more advanced classes that might help them get a better score
on college entrance exams, or get into four - year universities or avoid taking remedial classes after high school.
«The FEA believes how someone scored
on a college entrance exam has nothing to do with what kind of teacher they are.