Sentences with phrase «percentile points»

There wasn't much additional benefit from exceeding a half hour of reading — only 3 more percentile points in achievement gains.

Our main results indicate that students with career - ladder teachers scored nearly 3 percentile points higher in mathematics than students with other teachers.

On average, the practice of having students track their own progress was associated with a 32 percentile point gain in their achievement.

She has gone up 60 percentile points for her height.

And the improvement was dramatic: many children's scores had risen by as much as 20 or 30 percentile points between 1994 and 1995.

These positive outcomes increase in students who are involved in social and emotional learning programming by an average of 11 percentile points over students who are not involved in such programming.

But among students who spent three or four years with a teacher who shared their race, test scores increased by 2 to 3 percentile points with each additional year.

Students of similar ability and performance in third grade, therefore, were separated by nearly 50 percentile points just three years later.

Last year, our partner schools increased their state - wide ranking by an average of 10 percentile points as determined by the percentage of sixth grade students meeting proficiency in math.

I could probably add a few percentile points to my end of year by promoting on my own time.

A decline in percentile points means that students are substantially falling behind relative to their performance in public school or relative to their similar public school peers, depending on the study.

These practices were associated with a 31 percentile point gain in student achievement.

In year one, students in the voucher program fell 8 percentile points in reading compared to students not using a voucher.

Students in classes of teachers classified as least effective can be expected to gain only about 14 percentile points over a year's time.

According to a study by the Council of Great City Schools, students that attend school in deteriorating buildings score between 5 to 11 percentile points lower on standardized achievement tests than students in modern, maintained buildings.

Because that study was a Randomized Controlled Trial with a statistically significant finding of a 5.5 percentile point improvement as measured by the NWEA MAP assessment after 21 hours of DreamBox usage, Mathematica refers to the study as an example of the «gold - standard for establishing causal effects» of a curricular program.

The study showed that African - American students who had won privately financed tuition vouchers in a 1997 lottery scored 5.5 national percentile points higher on...

For instance, Krueger (1999) estimated that small classes in the Tennessee classroom size experiment generated a 5 percentile point increase in performance in early grades.

For example, research has found homeschoolers generally score 15 to 30 percentile points above public school students on standardized tests and they're achieving above average scores on the ACT and SAT tests.

In 2015, there was almost a 30 percentile point difference in 4th grade math proficiency rates between the top and bottom states, only some of which can be explained by state - level social and economic factors.

The study found that students improved nearly 4 percentile points after just 14 hours of DreamBox usage.

A recent meta - analysis shows that students who received an SEL curriculum fared an average of 13 percentile points better academically than their peers in control groups.

«As the study pointed out, students entering the Scholarship program in 2012 - 13 were performing approximately 20 - percentile points below the state average.

In the report published today in the peer - reviewed journal Child Development, researchers led by Joseph A. Durlak, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Chicago, found that students who took part in social and emotional learning, or SEL, programs improved in grades and standardized - test scores by 11 percentile points compared with nonparticipating students.

Our citywide sample score of 3.87 (on a scale of 1 - 5) places Oakland teachers in the 36th percentile of all organizations in Gallup's database, an increase of 2 percentile points from last year.

We find that new teachers in high - stakes classrooms tend to have higher SAT scores than those in other classrooms, and that the differential in teachers» SAT scores between the two classroom types grew by about 6 SAT percentile points between 1993 and 2008.

(Scores increase 9 percentile points when it is interactive.)

On the Stanford - 9 math test, voucher - eligible schools achieved gains that were 5.9 percentile points greater than the year - to - year gains achieved by other Florida public schools (see Figure 2).

On average, students» performance improved by roughly 2 to 3 percentile points during their first year with a teacher of the same race.

This comparison is even more dramatic when one realizes that some researchers have estimated that students will exhibit a gain in learning of about 6 percentile points simply from maturation - from growing one year older and gleaning new knowledge and information through everyday life (see Hattie, 1992; Cahen & Davis, 1987).

One study out of Stanford University, which helped design the PACT, found that for each additional point an English Language Arts teacher scored on the exam, which is scored on a 44 - point scale, students averaged a gain of one percentile point per year on California standardized tests.

Marzano (2003) estimated that establishing rules and procedures had an effect size of -0.76, which translates to a 28 percentile point decrease in student misbehavior!

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) examined over 200 studies of schools with and without SEL programming and found an 11 percentile point advantage on achievement tests among students in schools that placed an emphasis on both head and heart.

They also suggest that reading scores were nearly 2 percentile points higher among these students, though the results for reading fall just short of conventional levels of statistical significance (see Figure 1).

Only in Dayton were there minor differences in the pre-lottery test scores: those offered a voucher scored 6.5 percentile points lower in math and 3.1 points lower in reading than those not offered a scholarship, a statistically significant difference.

For example, a recent federally funded randomized controlled trial (RCT) analyzing the efficacy of an adaptive math software program found that the software led to an average eight - percentile point gain among students.

It increases by 22 percent the likelihood that they apply to at least one peer college, which we define here as a college with students whose median SAT scores are within 5 percentile points of the applicants» own scores.

Most students using eSpark achieve 1.5 x their expected yearly growth, and some districts see students grow 25 national percentile points in math and ELA domains.

For example: there would be a 10 percentile point increase in student test scores resulting from the work of an average principal if she improved her «demonstrated abilities in all 21 responsibilities by one standard deviation» (2003, p. 3).

CASEL reports: «A landmark review found that students who receive SEL instruction had more positive attitudes about school and improved an average of 11 percentile points on standardized achievement tests compared to students who did not receive such instruction.»

In a recent update of Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock's 2001 meta - analysis, McREL researchers found an effect size for feedback of 0.76, which translates roughly into a 28 percentile point difference in average achievement (Beesley & Apthorp, 2010; Dean, Pitler, Hubbell, & Stone, 2012).

New Orleans elementary students» math standardized test scores increased by 13 percentile points after the interventions, but the policies may have reduced the college entry rates of high school students.

The study shows that 3.5 years after their last SEL intervention, students fared an average of 13 percentile points better academically than their peers in control groups, based on 8 studies that measure academics.

Under this stricter test, the impact of the NLP actually increases slightly, going to a 2.6 percentile point improvement in reading and a 3.2 higher percentage achieving level 4 or above in English (see Figure 2).