Sentences with phrase «percentile point improvement»

Again, the relationship is virtually flat: with each percentile point improvement in measured teaching value - added, a faculty member is 0.067 percentile points higher in the h - index ranking.

Not exact matches

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.

Students in the study said that they expected their SAT scores to go up by at least 100 points by taking the prep package — a bump from the 50th percentile to the 69th percentile — but they were willing to sacrifice that critical improvement to save face with their peers.

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.

For example, schools in which staff had a «large role» in school improvement planning ranked, on average, over 20 percentile points higher in ELA than schools where staff had a «small» role.

Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam1 note that teachers who adopt formative assessment strategies see the equivalent of 10 to 15 percentile points of improvement in their students» achievement.

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.»