Sentences with phrase «overall achievement gains»

A more detailed analysis suggests that guessing could explain only a small fraction of the overall achievement gains.

Scholars including Swarthmore College's Tom Dee and Stanford University's Eric Hanushek have reported, for instance, that students appear to benefit from having a teacher of the same race, suggesting that the matching of teachers and students contributes to the pattern of overall achievement gains.

The individual studies of the privately funded K — 12 scholarship programs in the District of Columbia and Dayton reported overall achievement gains only for the large subgroup of African American students in the program.

Not exact matches

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

The four studies of Milwaukee's and Charlotte's programs reported statistically significant achievement gains overall for the members of the treatment group.

Murray points to the fact that national gains in educational achievement, particularly for those beginning on the lower end of the distribution, have been very hard to come by in the past few decades: «If we confine the discussion to children in the lower half of the intelligence distribution (education of the gifted is another story), the overall trend of the 20th century was one of slow, hard - won improvement.»

The gains in schools that received «high - dosage tutoring in math were dramatic,» and the study found that although the tenets of the program worked together to produce strong overall results, tutoring was, on its own, «highly effective in increasing achievement.»

Yet, despite substantial student achievement gains, [16] Mayor de Blasio has been emboldened overall and in the charter sector in particular.

This suggests an alternative criterion by which to judge changes in student performance - namely, that achievement gains on test items that measure particular skills or understandings may be meaningful even if the student's overall test score does not fully generalize to other exams.

The broad conclusion bears repeating — in both reading and math and at all three ages tested, each of the three major racial / ethnic groups made greater gains in achievement than students did overall.

Increases in achievement for African American and Latino students, in particular, were substantially higher than the average gains for students overall at all three age groups and in both subjects.

When the overall population contains a greater share of students from lower - performing racial / ethnic groups, then achievement must go up even more to produce gains in the average score for all students.

A 2016 Student Achievement Report published this week by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) shows the state's charter school students are outperforming students in traditional Florida public schools in overall achievement and in learAchievement Report published this week by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) shows the state's charter school students are outperforming students in traditional Florida public schools in overall achievement and in learachievement and in learning gains.

Overall score gains may mask increasing or unchanging percentages of students scoring in the lower ranges and wider achievement gaps between high and low scoring students.

They faced the facts of where they were with student achievement, with instructional practices, how the teachers were developing their skills collaboratively, what gains had been made in improving the overall learning culture of the school and what parent and community partnerships were developing.

The achievement gap among Kentucky students persists despite the state's overall academic gains, according to the findings of a Prichard Committee Study Group.

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State Report Shines Positive Light on Florida Charter School Student Performance For Overall Achievement and Learning Gains Compared to All Florida Students

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., (April 14, 2017)-- A 2016 Student Achievement Report published this week by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) shows the state's charter school students are outperforming students in traditional Florida public schools in overall achievement and in learAchievement Report published this week by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) shows the state's charter school students are outperforming students in traditional Florida public schools in overall achievement and in learachievement and in learning gains.

• Overall score gains may mask wider achievement gaps between high - scoring and low - scoring students, with percentages of students scoring in the lower ranges stuck or increasing.

The mean achievement gains for males on the overall test battery imply a percentile gain in test scores of a little less than 10 percentiles.

Andy Smarick of the Fordham Institute, a conservative nonprofit education policy think tank, this week noted that, despite the gains made by Houston and the Broad finalists in raising achievement, students» overall performance in all those districts remained lower than many would hope.

Accountability Plan Spurs Achievement Gains for Indiana District — Making accountability a matter of policy helped this school district narrow the acheivement gap and raise students» achievement scorAchievement Gains for Indiana District — Making accountability a matter of policy helped this school district narrow the acheivement gap and raise students» achievement scorachievement scores overall.

«Promoters of «No Child Left Behind» and similar test - driven schemes in many states promised significant gains in overall academic achievement.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A 2016 Student Achievement Report published this week by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) shows the state's charter school students are outperforming students in traditional Florida public schools in overall achievement and in learAchievement Report published this week by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) shows the state's charter school students are outperforming students in traditional Florida public schools in overall achievement and in learachievement and in learning gains.

The report is divided into three sections to study overall achievement, learning gains and achievement gaps between student groups.

Black students achieved a one - point gain in overall reading achievement, with 67 percent passing.

«Though I am pleased with the gains (overall), the numbers show that several of our most vulnerable populations continue to face opportunity and achievement gaps, particularly our Latino and African - American students, economically disadvantaged students, English language learners, and students with disabilities.

The tile works just like any other live tile, and will alternate between showing the logo of the game, and swapping to an informational board which shows either an achievement you've gained, one you still have yet to earn, or the amount of time played in the title overall.