Sentences with phrase «percentile points on»

The reviews demonstrated gains of 11 — 17 percentile points on achievement tests that demonstrated that SEL programs offer students a practical educational benefit.

When children have the skills to listen, calm down, empathize with others, and solve problems, they can focus more on their studies — in fact, a recent CASEL study showed that students who receive SEL instruction improved an average of 11 percentile points on standardized achievement tests.

Including the omitted children, Krueger found a gain of only 1.44 percentile points on standardized tests, a figure that is not statistically significant.

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 Orange County, students using the software increased their math proficiency by 8.3 percentile points on state tests compared with a 2.5 point increase at similar schools without it.

Always - D schools, which, faced with the real danger of receiving their first F, had some incentive to improve, made a relative gain of 4.3 scale - score points on the math FCAT and 1.3 percentile points on the Stanford - 9 math test.

Voucher - threatened schools made the next highest relative gains: 9.2 scale - score points on the math FCAT and 3.5 percentile points on the Stanford - 9 in math.

Students who use the voucher to enroll in private schools end up with much lower math achievement than they would have otherwise, losing as much as 13 percentile points on the state standardized test after two years.

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.»

(The difference is three percentile points on a 100 - point scale.)

Not exact matches

Thus, the long - term target incentives for the NEOs who head these significant business segments are determined based on a blend of peer positions with similar titles at peer group companies and CEO positions among smaller companies, using the 75th percentile for peer - company positions and the median for CEO positions at smaller companies as competitive reference points.

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

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.

My 10 pound, 11 - week - old baby is in the fifth percentile on the growth charts, but my doctor is not concerned to the point of supplementation.

For both the 1993 and 2000 cohorts, teachers score lower on average than nonteachers among both STEM majors and non-STEM majors, in some cases by as much as 7 SAT percentile rank points (see Figure 2).

In 1997 - 98, Los Angeles students in grades 2 - 8 scored in the 24th percentile in reading on the SAT 9, while Houston scored in the 32nd percentile, a gap of 8 national percentile ranking points.

Academic proficiency; academic growth using student - growth percentiles; English - language proficiency; graduation rate (four - year adjusted cohort rate, but schools can earn additional points added for progress on longer rates).

According to Sanders's analysis, «On average, the least effective teachers produce gains of about 14 percentile points among low - achieving students; the most effective teachers posted gains that averaged 53 percentile points.

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

The results indicate that a one - hour delay in start time increases standardized test scores on both math and reading tests by roughly 3 percentile points.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

By way of comparison, the authors note that the impact of being assigned to a teacher in the top - quartile rather than one in the bottom quartile in terms of their total effect on student achievement as measured by student - test - based measures of teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in reading and six points in math.

Adding one troubled peer to a classroom of 20 students reduces white boys» reading and math scores by 1.6 percentile points and black boys» reading and math scores by 0.9 percentile points (the effects on girls are negligible).

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

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 who have highly effective teachers three years in a row score as much as 50 percentile points higher on achievement tests than those who have ineffective teachers for three years in a row.»

Having a teacher from a good program rather than an average program will, on average, raise a student's test scores by 1 percentile point or less.

On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portioOn average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portioon the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portioon the math portion.

Black students who attended D.C. private schools for two years scored 9.0 percentile points higher on the two tests combined than did students in the control group.

The results of this analysis show that, after only one year's time, attending a private - school improved student performance on standardized tests in math and reading by between 5.4 and 7.7 percentile points.

After one year, the results show that students who used a scholarship to attend a private school scored 5.9 percentile points higher on the math section of the ITBS than comparable students who remained in public schools.

Their relative gain on the Stanford - 9 was a statistically significant 1.7 percentile points.

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...

A recent study by the Institute of Education Sciences and Mathematica Policy Research reported that having a teacher at the 10th percentile of effectiveness compared to having a teacher at the 90th percentile of effectiveness is roughly equivalent to a student achieving 15 percentile points higher on a reading test and 19 percentile points higher on a math test.

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

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.

These students outperformed national averages on MAP by 29 or more percentile points in math and 34 or more percentile points in reading.

On - site classroom studies have indicated an average 16 percentile point gain in student achievement when teachers employed strategies within the Marzano Causal Model.

It can also help students make significant gains in academic achievement — on average, a gain of 11 percentile points in reading and math, according to a 2011 review of more than 200 studies published in the journal Child Development.

A 2012 study found that middle school students who started class an hour later than usual saw their standardized test scores increase over 2 percentile points in math on average.

The difference the [Final Report] estimates comparing the teacher at the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the average teacher (50th percentile) is -22 scaled score points on the 5th grade PSSA Reading test... [referring] to the 2010 PSSA Technical Manual raw score table... for the 8th grade Reading test, that would be a difference of approximately 2 raw score points, or the equivalent of 2 multiple choice (MC) questions (1 point apiece) or half credit on one OE [open - ended] question.

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.

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

For example, Fuchs and Fuchs1 found that providing teachers with graphic displays of students» scores on formative assessments was associated with a 26 percentile point gain in achievement.

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.

Research shows that supporting students» social and emotional development can produce an 11 percentile point gain on academic scores.

And with these students less distracted and more engaged in school, they do better on their academics; they average 11 percentile points higher on standardized test scores than do students without SEL training.

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.

In the decade after the reforms, the city's standardized test scores have increased by eight to 15 percentile points and moved the district from the bottom to almost the state average on many measures.