Sentences with phrase «performing students in math»

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Milyutin — who confesses that he struggled with math in primary school — cited a 1984 review by the late Benjamin Bloom, which reports that students who received one - on - one tutoring performed better than 98 % of students taught in a conventional classroom.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

All students study math and science and learn foreign languages; they all play an instrument and sing in the chorus; they all learn handwork and take movement classes and perform in the class play.

An innovative leader in mathematics education, offering a system of after - school math classes for high - performing students.

Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

In 2009, 82 % of students in grades three to eight had supposedly performed at grade level on the math tests; but on the 2010 tests, that number fell to 54 In 2009, 82 % of students in grades three to eight had supposedly performed at grade level on the math tests; but on the 2010 tests, that number fell to 54 in grades three to eight had supposedly performed at grade level on the math tests; but on the 2010 tests, that number fell to 54 %.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.

Success Academy's students, most of whom are black or Hispanic, performed better on this year's state reading and math tests than did students in any other district in the state.

«Students emerging from the oft - criticized K - 12 system appear to be studying science and math subjects more and performing better in them, over time,» said Teitelbaum in Congressional testimony in November 2007.

In the nine countries that agreed to participate in that third test, students taking the most challenging math and science courses in their senior year were found to have performed progressively worse as they moved from elementary to middle to high schooIn the nine countries that agreed to participate in that third test, students taking the most challenging math and science courses in their senior year were found to have performed progressively worse as they moved from elementary to middle to high schooin that third test, students taking the most challenging math and science courses in their senior year were found to have performed progressively worse as they moved from elementary to middle to high schooin their senior year were found to have performed progressively worse as they moved from elementary to middle to high school.

Well grounded in math, Possingham began constructing models that performed cost - efficiency analyses of different conservation schemes, ultimately encoding his work into Marxan, a software program written by a Ph.D. student named Ian Ball and first released in 1999.

Teacher quality and student achievement in both math and reading increased substantially after the departure of low - performing teachers — those dismissed by IMPACT, or those who left voluntarily following their first «minimally effective» rating.

Studies have found that students perform better in math

Results of the study indicate that LTTA students perform better on math computation and estimation (as measured by the Canadian Achievement Test, CAT · 3) compared to students in similar non-LTTA schools.

Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

The bottom line is that Florida high school students taking Algebra or English I online perform at least as well on state math and reading tests as do students taking the same courses in a traditional format.

Florida's students had been performing near the bottom on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) when Bush took office, but by 2007 they had made remarkable gains in both reading and math; this was particularly true of Hispanic students.

Indeed, we find an average increase of about 0.06 math course credits per student in schools that face pressure to avoid a Low - Performing rating.

«While 62 per cent of our students performed better in collaborative problem solving than was expected based on their reading, Maths and Science scores, a focus on one skill shouldn't come at the expense of the others,» he said.

DCPS dismissed the majority of very low performing teachers and replaced them with teachers whose students did better, especially in math.

Raters also look for major errors, which can reveal a lack of math knowledge by the teacher, imprecise language and notation, or a lack of clarity in the presentation of tasks the teacher wants students to perform.

This analysis (again the Newspeak) builds on a large body of program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools — especially in math.

Whereas only 32 percent of U.S. 8th graders are proficient in math, 50 percent of Canadian students and nearly 60 percent of Korean and Finnish students perform at that level.

We find that NCLB accountability increased the share of students performing at or above basic in math by 10 percentage points among 4th graders and 6 percentage points among 8th graders.

The GRC analysis also differs from those of Hanushek et al. in that the latter focus on students performing at the advanced or proficient level, while we focused on the average student performance in both math and reading.

To enhance student - level differentiation, we supplied all sixth and ninth graders with a math tutor in a two - on - one setting and provided an extra dose of reading or math instruction to students in other grades who had previously performed below grade level.

This kind of drop in SAT scores would be a crisis, but the news that high - performing students were less prepared for college math than students 17 years earlier didn't seem to bother anyone, at least not enough to contemplate taking action.

Schools in danger of receiving a «Low - Performing» rating were likely to mitigate their risk both through an increase in the number of math courses for students who previously failed the 8th - grade exam and other increased staffing and instructional time.

Our findings from Florida suggest that the use of standardized testing policies to end social promotion can help low - performing students make modest improvements in reading and substantial improvements in math.

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.

In 2009, CREDO reported that charter students performed somewhat worse in reading and substantially worse in math than their district school counterpartIn 2009, CREDO reported that charter students performed somewhat worse in reading and substantially worse in math than their district school counterpartin reading and substantially worse in math than their district school counterpartin math than their district school counterparts.

Moreover, if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of low performers in countries with average test scores similar to the United States.

The study found that if a school had 25 percent more students performing at a proficient level in math and reading, the school was rated a half grade higher by parents.

Now, in 2013, CREDO finds that charter students perform somewhat better in reading and about the same in math as their district counterparts.

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.

Based on its own tests and standards, the state claimed in 2009 that over 90 percent of its 4th - grade students were proficient in math, whereas NAEP tests revealed that only 28 percent were performing at a proficient level.

Florida high school students taking Algebra or English I online perform at least as well on state math and reading tests as do students taking the same courses in a traditional format.

According to a rigorous Harvard evaluation, every year Jefferson students gain two and a half times as much in math and five times as much in English as the average school in New York City's relatively high - performing charter sector.

While teaching students to read, perform math, and understand science and technology is certainly important, I ask you to consider what we are doing in schools to help students deal with stress, to self - manage, to grow in self - awareness.

The recent absence of growth in Texas fourth - grade math skills among these high - performing students may portend the end of a remarkable period of growth among the highest performers in the second - largest state in the union.

In this month's Atlantic, Peg Tyre writes about the remarkable number of American students performing at extremely high levels in math and looks at how they got therIn this month's Atlantic, Peg Tyre writes about the remarkable number of American students performing at extremely high levels in math and looks at how they got therin math and looks at how they got there.

Countries in which a majority — or near majority — of students performed at or above the proficiency level in math include Switzerland, Japan, Canada, and the Netherlands.

Black, Hispanic, and white 3rd graders all tend to perform worse in reading and math when they are in classes that have a larger share of black students.

A student who is at the proficiency level in math set by NAEP performs moderately above proficiency level three on the PISA.

Low - scoring students in higher - performing schools only experienced a decline of 0.4 percent in the probability of passing the tenth - grade math exam, but they exhibited a decline in annual earnings of $ 748 at age twenty - five.

Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

Every school had to report to the public the percentage of students at each grade level who performed at «proficient» or above in reading, math, and, later, science.

The four states with 13 percent or more students performing at the advanced level in math are Massachusetts, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Vermont, with the Bay State taking honors with 15 percent of its students scoring at that level.

After teachers like Joseph - Charles and Philkhana began applying the Rutgers techniques in the classroom, students showed more interest in math, and the math test scores at what were among the lowest - performing schools in the state began to soar.