Sentences with phrase «school test scores across»

New data from researchers at Stanford, based on some 300 million elementary - school test scores across more than 11,000 school districts, reveals the school districts where children are showing the most growth.

Not exact matches

De Blasio said Wednesday that the city's test scores beat out increases seen in the state's other «Big 5» urban school districts and stressed that the city is closing its performance gap with schools across the state in general.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

Each dot represents a school, and the diagonal line shows the overall relationship between test - score gains and fluid cognitive ability across the full sample of schools.

In the school with more teachers, the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classroom.

A compelling way to see this is to look at the relationship across schools between the average test - score gain students make between the 4th and 8th grade and our summary measure of their students» fluid cognitive ability at the end of that period (see Figure 2).

This is the first effort to systematically identify opportunities for score inflation, to explore variations in validity across parts of tests and across types of students and schools, and to implement and evaluate SMAs.

On average across middle and high school math, TFA teachers out - performed veteran teachers by 0.07 standard deviations, the equivalent of 2.6 additional months of instruction or helping a student move from the 27th to the 30th percentile on a normal distribution of test scores.

Researchers from the RAND Corp., a Santa Monica, Calif. - based think tank, examined the standardized - test scores over five years for pupils in 2,892 schools across the state.

Differences across schools in treatment intensity enable us to measure the impact of ERI - induced retirements on test scores.

Figure 1b shows the changes in standardized test scores, across the full range of student performance, that can be attributed reasonably to teacher and school performance and to decisions about how the school allocates resources among students.

State efforts at carrying out requirements to test English - language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act are receiving increased scrutiny, as hundreds of schools across the country fail to meet goals for adequate yearly progress at least in part because of such students» scores.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

The significant relationship with precinct test scores and the absence of a relationship with district scores suggests that voters were more concerned with school performance within their immediate neighborhood than across the district.

Finally, we evaluate the degree to which differences in relative test score performance (or growth) of high - SES versus low - SES students are largely occurring within school districts or across school districts.

States should report how a school's test scores and test - score gains compare with the scores and gains of demographically similar schools across the state and locally.

«Overall, across all grades, we found that implementing any SIG - funded model had no significant impacts on math or reading test scores, high school graduation, or college enrollment.»

To the contrary, when schools serving similar populations were compared across the state of Indiana, and poverty was controlled for, those schools with relatively low suspension rates had higher, not lower test scores

They suggest that in a school with more teachers, «the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classroom.»

In this latter paper, Reardon and coauthors report that while racial / ethnic test score gaps average around 0.6 standard deviations across all school districts, in some districts the gaps are almost nonexistent while in others they exceed 1.2 standard deviations.

Important new work by Reardon and his collaborators shows that not only test scores [5] but also racial test score gaps [6] vary dramatically across American school districts.

The ideal situation to assess the impact of tracking on test scores of different groups of students would be one in which students were assigned to tracking or nontracking schools randomly, and the performance of students could be compared across school types.

In 2007, Ozkan Eren and Daniel Millimet examined the limited variation that does exist across American states and found weak evidence that longer school years improve math and reading test scores.

Proponents, insisting that tying teacher salaries to measurable standards will improve schools, have instituted a wide variety of incentive plans across the country: Some evaluate teachers based solely on standardized test scores, some on teacher skill development; some offer more pay to teachers working in at - risk schools or with at - risk children, or for teaching certain subjects.

Reporting test - score levels will allow policymakers to clearly see absolute differences in achievement across schools, regardless of which growth measure is adopted.

The GreatSchools website supplies users with simple and straightforward information on school test scores and demographics in a manner that enables comparisons across schools.

Schools across the state saw similar test score drops.

Across nine tested schools in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn, Success Academy students scored on average 39 points higher than their peers attending schools with similar economic needs.

School system leaders across the Baltimore area said they believe the scores will increase quickly in coming years, as teachers and students adjust to the new test and Common Core standards put into effect by most schools three years ago.

[6] To deal with this selection issue, we make use of the within - school, across - grade variation in the volume of entering refugees to explore the effects on the educational outcomes of existing students including test scores, disciplinary incidents, and student mobility across schools.

If this were true, one would expect the patterns of test - score gains across items to differ for low - versus high - performing students and schools.

Our data set enabled us to examine the test - score gains of individual students from grade to grade across three school years.

Only in the across - cohort comparisons did the Mathematica researchers find much evidence to suggest that the black - white test - score gap may narrow during the school years.

Figure 2 shows the correlations between school - average social - emotional skills and key indicators of academic performance (GPA and state test scores) and student behavior (the percentage of students receiving suspensions and average absence rates) across CORE district middle schools.

They employ propensity score matching methods where they compare voucher students with similar students in public schools by matching across a variety of observable background factors, including baseline test scores.

We find no significant adverse effect of refugees on the educational outcomes of incumbent students including test scores, disciplinary incidents, and student mobility across schools.

And if a school's test scores are low, according to another sponsor for charter schools across Indiana, it likely wouldn't take as long as six years for the charter to be revoked.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

A tentative agreement reached last week would for the first time allow the Los Angeles Unified School District to use students» standardized test scores to rate teacher effectiveness, something many other schools across the nation are already doing.

If states or districts tested math or literacy proficiency in more than one grade in elementary or in secondary schools, we averaged the percentages across the grades within the building level, resulting in a single achievement score for each school.

So, TREE has joined with more than a dozen grassroots organizations that support strong public schools across Tennessee to demand accountability from the TDOE in the wake of confusion created by the latest release of «quick scores» and associated raw «cut scores» from recent TCAP tests.

Optimism, test scores on the rise at English High School November 30, 2015 In a fourth - floor classroom, students diligently scrawled notes across lined pages one recent morning as social studies teacher Frank Swoboda explained the role of politics in economic development, peppering his lesson with observations from students... read more.

Furthermore, the most recent state test scores showed that Denver performed better than most districts in the state, showing commendable improvements in turnaround schools located in Far Northeast and Northwest Denver, even though the district is still far from its own goal of 3.5 percent improvement in growth across all subjects.

The Times» analysis usefully illuminates the wide variation in the test scores of students across classrooms and schools.

As states across the country rethink school accountability under ESSA, most of the policy discussion revolves around how bureaucrats should calculate ratings that parents rarely see, based on standardized test scores that parents barely credit.

In his speech he said: «Firing teachers and closing schools if student test scores and graduation rates do not meet a certain bar is not an effective way to raise achievement across a district or a state... Linking student achievement to teacher appraisal, as sensible as it might seem on the surface, is a non-starter... It's a wrong policy [emphasis added]... [and] Its days are numbered.»

It will name «model schools» — those with the highest test scores, biggest year - to - year gains, strong performance across student groups and, for high schools, best graduation rates.

Thanks to the support of parents across the state, more than 130 schools throughout Utah are now experiencing the positive impact of arts - integrated learning, including higher test scores and improved student understanding, retention, behavior, attendance, and self - esteem.

Across the country, Smarter Balanced states have been notifying high schoolers and their parents how they can use their Smarter Balanced test scores for college.

Five years ago, one group of researchers found that charter school students across Chicago and the whole state of Florida scored slightly worse on math tests than their public high school counterparts.