Sentences with phrase «percentage points improvements»

Even notorious basement - dwellers like New York's JFK and LaGuardia airports saw a nearly 10 percentage point improvement in their on time arrivals, according to the numbers.

With each percentage point improvement in measured teacher quality, a faculty member is 0.037 percentile points higher in the h - index ranking (standard error of 0.108), implying a difference in the h - index distribution of only two percentile points between the 25th and 75th percentile teachers.

With regard to attainment, a 10 percentage point increase in a school's overall winning percentages associated with a 1.3 percentage point improvement in its CPI, which is an estimate of its high school graduation rate.

This last year, Denver made a dramatic jump in achievement with a 4.7 percentage point improvement in elementary literacy as measured by CMAS from 2016 to 2017 (and up 7.7 points since 2015), one of largest one - year improvements in the last decade.

The district's independent charters had a 7 percentage point improvement on the ELA test and a 4 percentage point improvement on the math test, while traditional schools saw a 6 percentage point improvement on the ELA test and a 3 percentage point improvement on math.

Grant Middle School saw an almost 11 percentage point improvement in mathematics scores in the 2011 - 2012 school year.

LA's English learners trailed badly among other large districts in the state: 6 percent were proficient in math, only a single percentage point improvement from last year.

LA Unified's reclassified English learners made a 1 percentage point improvement in meeting or exceeding state standards:

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On a positive note, I have seen a slight improvement by a few percentage points in most of the core metrics since I last checked back in November 2016.

That would be a percentage - point improvement from 2016, and better than any other country in the Group of Seven rich economies.

There was no significant relationship between cost and the percentage improvement in end point (PFS, β = 214.4; 95 % CI, − 42.4 to 471.1; P =.10; OS, β = 942.5; 95 % CI, 143.0 to 2028.1; P =.09), and correlation coefficients were low (PFS, R2 = 0.132; OS, R2 = 0.165).

With those improvements, the company has seen reduced costs, boosting gross margin by six percentage points in the past year.

With the All - Star Game as the break point, only three teams since 1933 have had a greater improvement in their winning percentage from the first half of the season to the second.

He showed tremendous improvement in his second season, raising his three - point shooting percentage to 39 percent, and he scored 19 points per game.

Calculation to determine the necessary number of resident participants used estimations of knowledge from previous studies of pediatric residents, which suggested a baseline knowledge about breastfeeding of 60 percentage points.8, 9,15 To detect an improvement in knowledge score of 20 percentage points with an estimated standard deviation of 20 points, a 2 - tailed α error of 0.05 and a power of 0.80, sample size was calculated at a minimum of 16 resident participants.

Overall, Ukip secured 12.6 % of the vote, an increase of 9.5 percentage points from the 2010 election, the largest of any major party and more than three times the size of the SNP's improvement.

New York's graduation rate ticked upward by a half percentage point to 80.2 percent, an improvement of 11 percentage points from a decade ago, the state Education Department announced Wednesday.

That's an improvement from 2012, when Republicans held a 6 percentage - point edge in absentee ballots.

After more than a century of incremental improvements in the steam cycle, engineers have plucked most of the low - hanging fruit and are chasing diminishing returns, spending millions of dollars for every percentage point of efficiency improvement.

«About 6 percentage points of that is gained through efficiency improvements to infrastructure, but the bulk is the result of replacing current sources and uses of combustion energy with electricity.»

That's an improvement of nearly 2 percentage points from the previous year and about 8 points in the past decade.

Annual average improvement target of 2.5 percentage point gains in achievement on state reading and math tests between 2018 and 2025 for all students and student subgroups; plan includes goal of reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2025 for all students and student subgroups

Improvements in primary schools over the past few years mean that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils with at least a good pass in English and maths and all other pupils is set to reduce from 24 percentage points (ppts) to 21.5 between 2017 and 2021.

We estimate that improvement from the 25th to the 75th percentile of test - score change — that is, moving from a loss of 4 percentile points to a gain of 3.8 percentile points between 1999 and 2000 — produced on average an increase of 3 percentage points in an incumbent's vote share.

• The average difference between the proportion of students achieving proficiency on NAEP and state tests decreased from 30 percentage points to 10 percentage points nationwide, which the authors describe as «a dramatic improvement over the previous two - year period (2011 - 13), in which the difference dropped only from 35 to 30 percent.»

There was an improvement in the graduation rate of 6.5 percentage points (Figure 3).

The effect for non-poor students is somewhat smaller, but still quite large — an increase of 23 percentage points from a baseline of 67 percent, suggesting a nearly 35 percent improvement.

Most notably, closures improved graduation rates for displaced students by 15.1 percentage points — with all of that improvement coming through a 17.4 - percentage - point increase in the share of students earning more rigorous Regents diplomas.

A change in the historical Catholic population share that produces a 10 - percentage - point increase in the extent of contemporary private school competition generates an improvement of about 5.5 percent of a standard deviation in both science and reading — or more than one - fifth of a grade - level equivalent in these subjects.

In a randomized controlled trial of 6,888 students, 1st grade students who participated in Reading Recovery for 12 - 20 weeks showed reading improvement equal to 18 percentage points on the ITBS Total Reading assessment.

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

We find that they did, with double - dosing increasing four - and five - year high - school graduation rates by 8.7 and 7.9 percentage points, respectively, a 17 percent improvement (see Figure 2).

In reading, students made comparable improvement (roughly 5 percentage points) across question type, suggesting that test preparation may have played a larger role in math than in reading.

«Long - term improvement is also gap - narrowing improvement,» Cheatham said, citing a 36 percentage - point rise for black students in reading proficiency in four years at Lindbergh Elementary School, and a 19 percentage - point gain for black students in reading proficiency over the same period at Glendale.

But within the overall improvement in English, the reading element of the test showed a decline of two percentage points.

Even better, 80 percent of black male students now graduate within six years, which is slightly higher than the rate for black females and an improvement of 18 percentage points.

The east of England had the best improvement since 2011 (up 21 percentage points), but the north west had just a three percentage point increase.

Improvements for disadvantaged pupils also continued, with 70 % reaching the expected level in the basics, up three percentage points on 2014.

LA Unified students — in magnets, affiliated charter schools and traditional schools — showed some improvement, about 1 percentage point in ELA and 2 percentage points in math.

Over the two - year study period, SIG scores improved 5 percentage points in both categories while the improvement among all other schools was 3 percent in reading and 2 percent in math.

More than a quarter of colleges and universities have black - white graduation gaps higher than 20 percentage points, but the data also show that improvement is possible, Nichols said.

Congratulations also to the Gilroy Unified School District who won a Gold Medal for demonstrating an 8 percentage - point 3 - year improvement on the State Math Test from 24 % of 11th grade students Meeting or Exceeding Standards in 2015 to 32 % Meeting or Exceeding Standards in 2017.

While the overall U.S. performance fell far behind top performers, such as Singapore, Japan, and Canada, the United States made the biggest improvement in equity from 2006 to 2015, increasing its percentage of «resilient students» — defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted by their socioeconomic status — by 12 percentage points, as shown in the below image from the report.

Gains in proficiency for low - income students were 8 percentage points in English language arts and 5 percentage points in math, twice the statewide rate of improvement for those students.

Black students showed the largest improvement, closing the gap by 7.5 percentage points compared to white students between 2005 - 06 and 2011 - 12.

Improvements in primary schools over the past few years means that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils with at least a good pass in English and maths and all other pupils is set to reduce from 24 percentage points (ppts) to 21.5 between 2017 and 2021.

The percentage of eighth graders achieving at the advanced level in mathematics rose three points, to 11 percent, which also represents a statistically significant improvement in performance since 2009.

Ahlin found «an increase in the share of private school students by 10 percentage points is associated with an improvement of mathematics performance corresponding to about five percentiles in the test score distribution.»

Despite confusion over how much New York students are improving, New York City's small gains in proficiency (almost 5 percentage points in math and 1 percentage point in reading) appear to be real progress, experts say, because they mirror similar improvements on national tests (specifically the Trial Urban District Assessment portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-RRB-.

2015 results show that primary sponsored academies open for 2 years have improved their results, on average, by 10 percentage points since opening, more than double the rate of improvement in local - authority - maintained schools over the last 2 years