Sentences with phrase «percentile points above»

These effect sizes translate to gains of about 3 percentile points; specifically, a student who would have performed at the median in the comparison group is estimated to have performed 3 percentile points above the median in an NGLC school in both subjects.»

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.

Not exact matches

In Jake's case, by early December 2005 his head had swollen to the point that he was above the 97th percentile for head circumference.

The researchers found that the average nonverbal IQ of the children significantly decreased 2.1 to 3.8 points below the average of the reference group (those with free T4 levels in the middle of the range) when the mothers» free T4 level was at or above the 89th percentile.

For reading, the literacy hour raised boys» mean percentile reading scores by somewhere between 2.5 and 3.4 percentile points and raised the percentage achieving level 4 or above in Key Stage 2 English by between 2.7 and 4.2.

A meta - analysis of 213 programs, primarily covering three decades of research, found that social and emotional learning interventions that address the competencies listed above increased students» academic performance by 11 percentile points, as compared to students who did not participate in such SEL programs (Durlak et al., 2011).

Jacobs said many West students made academic progress, but only those over a certain bar — above the 40th percentile, when compared to their academic peers — were given points under the new school grades.

* the raw scores of each student * how many students fell into each of the achievement subgroups (test scores broken down by 20 point percentile slices) * if each of the five percentile slices was generally above, below, or at its growth target

The remaining lines in the top panel of the figure describe the shape of this distribution by plotting its median (i.e. the point that divides the distribution into an equal number of observations, such that 500 are above and another 500 below that point), its 25th percentile or quartile (labelled Q25, referring to the point that has 250 budgets below it and the remaining 750 above), and finally its minimum.

A meta - analysis of 213 programs, primarily covering three decades of research, found that social and emotional learning interventions that address the competencies listed above increased students» academic performance by 11 percentile points, as compared to students who did not participate in such SEL programs (Durlak et al., 2011).