Sentences with phrase «percentile gain in test scores»

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.

Based on the percentile gains in test scores from Boston pre-K, the ratio of the present value of the future increase in adult earnings, to the cost of the program, are estimated to be $ 3.22 for children eligible for a subsidized lunch, versus $ 2.30 for middle - class children.

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If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

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 intervention produced substantial gains in measured student achievement in the year following its completion, equivalent to moving the average student from the 50th to the 59th percentile in achievement test scores.

In reading, the observed gain declined from 3.1 to 1.6 percentile points, but it still represented 29 percent of the black - white test - score gap in reading (see Figure 2In reading, the observed gain declined from 3.1 to 1.6 percentile points, but it still represented 29 percent of the black - white test - score gap in reading (see Figure 2in reading (see Figure 2).

Earlier program evaluation reports for Louisiana showed that voucher students made significantly lower gains on math and reading test scores in the first year (27 percentile points and 17 percentile points lower, respectively) than students who applied for vouchers but were not awarded them through the lottery.

From Chetty et al.'s research, we have estimates of the relationship between cognitive outcomes in kindergarten, measured as percentile test score gains, and dollar gains in adult earnings.

While there were no significant overall gains among students of other ethnic groups, black students in their second year of private - school attendance improved their test scores by 6.3 percentile points — a striking advance at a time when schools around the country are trying to close a persistent gap between scores of white and black students.