Sentences with phrase «quintile schools»

Furthermore, teachers in schools whose students achieve in the highest and second - highest quintiles award significantly more relative influence to staff teams; teachers in the highest - quintile schools award significantly more relative influence, as well, to individual parents and to groups of parents.

Further, the highest ELL achievement quintile schools» regular program funding per pupil advantage also doubled during this time from $ 500 to $ 1000 per pupil.

The highest ELL achievement quintile schools» total general funds expenditure per pupil advantage over the lowest ELL achievement quintile schools doubled from approximately $ 400 per pupil in 2010 to approximately $ 800 per pupil in 2012.

Similarly, if replacing the lowest - ranked school in the survey with a top - quintile school, student test scores would improve by 0.39 of a standard deviation using a conventional VAM, and 0.53 of a standard deviation when using the MIT team's own VAM method.

Not exact matches

Those in the bottom quintile of ability who go on to major in STEM have lifetime earnings of about $ 2.3 million, compared to $ 2 million for high school graduates in the top quintile of ability; business majors do slightly worse than STEM majors.

There were proposals to, among other things, hold schools accountable only for the progress of the lowest - performing students in the bottom quintile; not disaggregate data by race and ethnicity; require states to deal only with the lowest - performing schools; or ignore test results altogether as an accountability tool.

Recently, Glazerman et al. reported that even after being offered a $ 20,000 bonus to move to a high - need school in their district, only 3.5 percent of middle school teachers in the top quintile of effectiveness and 7 percent of similarly ranked elementary teachers were willing to transfer.

In the quintile of highest - poverty schools in the state of New York, four of the top five schools in English language arts and math are Success schools.

(In the quintile of highest - poverty schools in the state, four of the top five schools in English language arts and math are Success schools.)

This percentage was only slightly smaller (73 percent) for the largest quintile of schools.

Among the smallest quintile of elementary schools, 47 percent of racially heterogeneous schools (those with four or more racial subgroups) won performance awards, versus 82 percent of similarly sized but racially homogeneous schools.

At the other end of the scale, 10 per cent work in schools in the highest SES quintile; for non-Indigenous teachers the figure is 20 per cent.

We to focus on trends in school enrollment patterns for children whose families are in different income quintiles, with special attention to trends in the top and bottom income quintiles.

For our analysis we stratified school size (number of students) into quintiles.

Ninety - four percent of schools that started in the top quintile of performance remained at that lofty level over time.

Schools in the highest ELL achievement quintile had approximately 70 percent more ELL students meet or exceed 10th grade TAKS (all tests), 25 percent more ELL students participate in advanced courses, 25 percent more ELL students who were college ready (both math and English) and 25 percent more ELL students graduate from high school than schools in the bottom ELL achievement quSchools in the highest ELL achievement quintile had approximately 70 percent more ELL students meet or exceed 10th grade TAKS (all tests), 25 percent more ELL students participate in advanced courses, 25 percent more ELL students who were college ready (both math and English) and 25 percent more ELL students graduate from high school than schools in the bottom ELL achievement quschools in the bottom ELL achievement quintile.

Table 6: Average Qualifications of Teachers in Poorest Quartile of Schools by Math Achievement Quintiles Predicted Solely from Teacher Qualifications, 2000 - 2005

Finally, the analysis compared the salaries of teachers in schools with the top quintile of enrolled African - American and Latino students, to the average teacher salary in the district.

Numbers Matter, an instructional plan developed by Barbara Burke, was first implemented in a school with 100 % free lunch, an on - time graduation rate under 70 %, 95 % of freshman students arriving behind grade level, and state test scores in the bottom half of the fifth quintile.

A University of Cambridge study published today found teachers in the top fifth of advantaged schools — sorted by free school meal data — had an average of nearly one and a half years more experience than those in the least advantaged quintile.

Not only do low achieving students in the bottom quintile end up at the worst schools in the city, the authors note that these bottom students are often selecting bad schools as their top choices.

Strikingly, about 6 percent of teachers who are placed in the top quintile in reading by the value - added model with student covariates are placed in the bottom quintile by the value - added model that makes within - school comparisons, and vice versa.

As Figure 3 indicates, we first divided the schools in our sample into quintiles on the basis of mean annual student achievement scores.

Although we do not include a table reporting all correlations, we found SES to be significantly (and unsurprisingly) related to student achievement — a possible explanation for the high level of influence parents and students apparently exercise in schools in the higher quintiles of performance, which generally serve higher SES students.

Results displayed in Figure 3 indicate that teachers in the highest - achieving schools (Quintile 5) generally attributed higher levels of influence to all people and groups than did teachers in lower - achieving schools.

Schools were divided into quintiles based on the mean achievement of their students on test scores over three years.

For example, according to NCES, 63 % of students from the lowest income quintile (compared with 83 % from the highest income quintile) enrolled in college within a year of graduating from high school or completing a GED — still a large gap, but not to the extent seen in Ikoma & Broer's analysis.4

The New Yorker has John Cassidy's interview with Richard Thaler, Chicago School economist and co-author (along with Werner F.M. DeBondt) of Further Evidence on Investor Overreaction and Stock Market Seasonality, a paper I like to cite in relation to low P / B quintiles and earnings mean reversion.

These included maternal age at delivery, parity (1, 2, ≥ 3 children), socioeconomic position (grouped into four categories: 1) unskilled / semiskilled manual; 2) skilled manual / nonmanual; 3) managerial / technical; and 4) professional), maternal education (< O level: indicating no qualification; O level: indicating completion of school examinations at age 16; and > O level: indicating completion of college or university education at or after age 18), maternal smoking during first trimester in pregnancy (yes / no), housing tenure (mortgaged, subsidised renting, private renting), income (measured in quintiles), and maternal depressive symptoms measured using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale [40] at 32 weeks gestation