Sentences with phrase «quartile on achievement tests»

And a report from the Southern Regional Education Board, which supports increasing the number of middle students taking Algebra I, found that among students in the lowest quartile on achievement tests, those enrolled in higher - level mathematics had a slightly higher failure rate than those enrolled in lower - level mathematics (Cooney & Bottoms, 2009, p. 2).»

Not exact matches

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.