Sentences with phrase «prior test scores»

Such factors may include prior test scores, poverty, and race.

First, they estimate value added from simple models, such as those that control for only a few prior test scores and don't make complicated adjustments for measurement error.

Likewise, in the model used this year, teachers who have students whose prior test scores were higher were advantaged, while teachers whose students have lower prior achievement were disadvantaged.

If the statistical model is based on good background information, such as prior test scores that strongly predict future test scores, this may work very well.

Finally, the data reveal that the fail rating effects are especially large for students with low prior test scores.

Specifically, in Missouri, a school - level two - step growth model that controls only for prior test scores at the student and school levels comes quite close to achieving proportionality.

Applicants» parents have more years of education, more involved, and students have higher prior test scores

We examine a targeted approach to course assignment that uses prior test scores to identify middle school students deemed qualified for a college preparatory math sequence.

The question of «fairness» is likely to be at the heart of any debate about teacher evaluation, and the debate over controlling for student characteristics other than prior test scores shows why it is hard to know which model is more «fair» to individual teachers.

For example, CREDO compares two students with similar prior test scores both coming from low income and high parental education families, but one student now attends a charter school and the other attends a traditional public school.

Why are the effects of a fail rating largest for students with low prior test scores?

Student factors include prior test score, gender, ethnic background, parents» education, income and economic activity, and whether the family receives government benefits.

• After adjusting for prior test scores and demographics, the school a student attends explains 34 percent of the variation in their math test scores and 24 percent of the variation in their reading test scores, but just 2 percent of the variation in their fluid cognitive skills.

The calculated growth is determined by a New York State Education Department (NYSED) formula that factors in poverty, a student's prior test scores, whether a student has repeated a grade, whether a student is an English language learner or a student with disabilities.

[1] We ran two sets of simulations: one where students opt - out randomly, and another in which opt - out occurs among the highest - performing students in each classroom (as measured by their prior test scores).

Applicants have lower prior test scores, more school violence, more out - of - school suspension, lower ratings from principals and teachers

Controlling for key student characteristics (including demographics, prior test scores, and the prior choice to enroll in a charter middle school), students who attend a charter high school are 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than students who attend a traditional public high school.

Even if the largest estimates of peer effects are correct, however, the improvement in peers» prior test scores would appear to benefit KIPP students» achievement only by about 0.07 to 0.09 standard deviations after four years at KIPP.

A second approach, and the one that is most commonly used by researchers, is a value - added model that adjusts test scores for students» prior test scores and demographic characteristics and calculates performance measures in a single step.

We can address this issue by comparing the prior test scores of charter school applicants in our data with the test scores of students in regular public schools in their neighborhoods (within three miles).

Children rise — not based on where they live, their prior test scores, their color — but because of what we do.

Those 71 schools had prior test scores that were 0.15 standard deviations below the district average, a level of performance much closer to those at the schools placed under new management.

Using a complex mathematical formula, the district aims to isolate a teacher's effect on student growth by controlling for such outside factors as poverty, race, English ability and prior test scores.

In our analyses of Florida data, 37 percent of the variation in students» middle school course tracks can be explained by a combination of their prior test scores, race / ethnicity, and family income.

A common criticism of value - added measures is that some teachers are at a disadvantage because they are assigned students who are more difficult to educate, even after the measures account for students» prior test scores; this is what researchers call selection bias.

The strongest factor in predicting a student's future score — explaining about 60 percent of the variance in achievement — is that student's prior test score.

For the randomization, researchers in 2009 - 10 generated estimates of teachers» performance based on composite measures using data from the surveys, prior test scores, and observation scores.

Each panel compares the rating of teachers using a value - added model with prior test scores and student covariates to placements from another model: (1) a value - added model that includes only a prior test score (Panels A and D); (2) the SGP model (Panels B and E); and (3) a value - added model that makes within - school comparisons (Panels C and F).