Sentences with phrase «score gains made»

Commenting on the «ping - pong» pattern of scores examined over a number of years, Stanford University professor Linda Darling - Hammond notes that score gains made over one or two years are often followed by sharp drops in scores in subsequent years (Darling - Hammond, The Right to Learn, 1997).

Each of these results is statistically significant at a very high level, meaning that we can be highly confident that the test - score gains made by schools facing the actuality or prospect of voucher competition were larger than the gains made by other public schools.

Thus we use a method that in effect compares the test - score gains of individual students in charter schools with the test - score gains made by the same students when they were in traditional public schools.

An analysis of test score gains made by students in 49 countries which was published in Ed Next last year found that students in the U.S. were not on track to close the global achievement gap.

Not exact matches

As a general rule, a personal credit score below 680 will make qualifying for a loan at the bank problematic and a score below 650 will likely rule out an SBA loan, so if your personal score is below the 650 threshold, you'll likely need to look at alternative financing options, but it is possible to gain a loan approval.

Most recently, Old Spice has made significant gains in Buzz scores among men 18 — 49 with its award winning, in - your - face, ever - morphing ads featuring Isaiah Mustafa.

With both teams battling hard to secure the victory, each team gained another goal in the final quarter to make the final score 10 - 10.

It is a very strange situation we find ourselves in with Alexis Sanchez being ignored by his Arsenal team - mates after scoring the goal that made sure Arsenal gained three points against Crystal Palace tonight.

In 1993, Wisconsin could have made title waves if not for a misstep in the Metrodome — quarterback Darrell Bevell threw five interceptions, one of which was returned for a score, as the Badgers gained 605 yards but lost.

Having scored in the FA Cup encounter with Exeter City last month, he has made just two appearances in all competitions all season and so therefore sees his future elsewhere in a bid to gain regular playing time.

In the second half, United gained complete control of the match, and Bastian showed glimpses of quality in the build - up to the third goal and got himself in to the score - sheet minutes later, capitalizing on a mix up in Wigan Athletic's box to convert a well taken goal to make the score 4 - 0 — the sixth time the Red Devils put four past an opponent under the Portuguese.

There was the game at Maine Road in 1970 at Maine Road when Jimmy Greaves made his debut for us and scored twice, Ronnie Boyce scored from the half way line and we won the game 5 - 1, to gain our revenge on a 4 - 0 home defeat to them just three months earlier.

Rojo made his return from injury playing for the U23; s, gaining some much - needed match fitness, then returning in the UEFA Champions League against Basel, following that with another good performance in the 4 - 2 victory over Watford in the Premier League on Tuesday evening, conceding a penalty in the second half which saw the home side score twice in seven minutes.

Until breastfeeding is properly supported systemically and structurally, breastfeeding will remain akin to football — a game of inches, with some women eking out small gains while pushing through and past monumental obstacles but rarely making it to end zone or scoring the collective touchdown.

New York's school children made incremental progress in math scores but no gains in English tests in the second year of Common Core - related exams.

The youngest of them made the most dramatic gains: On average, these first - graders increased their IQ scores by more than 27 points.

• Twelve countries improved their GAPPD scores since 2015, with Niger making the biggest gain, up 11 points.

For the life of me, I somehow can't find the identity of this series» cinematographer, but whomever this person may be, my hat is off to him or her, as his or her efforts, while not breathtaking, is consistently quite tasteful in its plays with coloring and lighting, which has a tendency to sometimes go from tasteful to just plain stunning, thus making the series a strong visual piece, as surely as it is something of a strong musical piece, as Christopher Dedrick must also gain some recognition for his spirited and sometimes upstanding score work.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Becky gains rating points by scoring a personal appearance by musician 50 cents, while Mike bemoans the state of his career over drinks with renowned newsmen Bob Schieffer, Morley Safer and Chris Matthews who make cameo appearances.

The goal is to gain possession of the ball and make two laps, before skating up a ramp and throwing the ball at a target to score.

Doctoral student Helen Malone has been researching time and learning and says that because this is so new, «there's no rigorous data yet, but what they are finding is that kids are making significant gains on standardized test scores.»

Students of teachers who had completed an online professional - development course about fractions made test - score gains that were similar to those of students taught by teachers who had taken the same course in person.

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).

In 1998, Florida scored about one grade level below the national average on the 4th - grade NAEP reading test, but it was scoring above that average by 2003, and made further gains in subsequent years (see Figure 1).

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

To identify the policy's average impact, we compared the gains in developmental - scale scores made by students who first entered 3rd grade in 2002 and scored below the FCAT benchmark with gains made by students who first entered 3rd grade in 2001 and scored below the FCAT benchmark.

«Urge school and political leaders to make sure they are analyzing gains, not just raw scores,» Shearon said, «then forget about the scores!

benchmark with gains made by students who first entered 3rd grade in 2001 and scored below the FCAT benchmark.

Focusing only on charters making the biggest achievement score gains would miss those charters with more modest achievement results but truly impressive attainment outcomes.

Thus, I also assume that the state made no meaningful gains in 4th - grade reading between 1998 and 2000 that would have shown up on NAEP, which squares with the scores on the state's own reading assessment.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

Perhaps the big economic gains made by blacks in the 1990s didn't show up in improved test scores until the 2000s.

The growth in NAEP scores of the highest - performing students in Texas and the nation essentially mirrors the gains made by student groups that were focal to the policy goals of NCLB.

That meant a school might be designated «needing improvement» because it had failed to raise scores over the past several years — but still could have a higher absolute score than a school that had met the federal standard because it had made steady gains from a lower base.

Results from a new report on test scores show the nation's students making modest gains in math and science in recent years, while failing to significantly increase their reading and writing performance.

And the situation is even worse because most regulators making decisions about what choice schools should be opened, expanded, or closed are not relying on rigorously identified gains in test scores — they just look primarily at the levels of test scores and call those with low scores bad.

If we can't reliably use rigorously identified test score gains to predict later life outcomes, then on what basis will regulators be able to judge quality to protect families against making bad choices?

If charter schools were primarily established in response to dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, they would tend to be located in areas with low - quality traditional public schools where students would tend to make below - average test - score gains.

If regulators are unable to predict which schools will be good (assuming, falsely, that test score gains are a reliable indicator of good schools), how are they supposed to «protect» parents from making bad choices about schools?

Teachers» scores on the classroom observation components of Cincinnati's evaluation system reliably predict the achievement gains made by their students in both math and reading.

The council's Beating the Odds VI report, a city - by - city analysis of student performance, recently revealed that urban students» scores on state assessments in reading and math as well as on the more rigorous federal test — the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- are rising, with urban students making the most gains in mathematics.

When Mr. Obama first moved to phase out the D.C. voucher program in 2009, his Education Department was in possession of a federal study showing that voucher recipients, who number more than 3,300, made gains in reading scores and didn't decline in math.

Although some relatively small gains have been made (most likely due to Reading First's spread of phonics - based decoding instruction), high - school scores have been flat for decades.

Some think gains are more easily realized if students are already accomplished, while others think those with high scores have neared a ceiling, making it difficult to raise their scores further.

But after its passage into law, white, black and Hispanic students all made gains and the widening of the white - minority test score gap was reversed.

Students of teachers who had completed an online professional - development course about fractions made test - score gains that were similar to those of students taught by teachers who had taken the same course in person.

Given this simple dichotomy, the public says test - score gains should be given more than half the weight (62 percent) in making salary and tenure decisions.

Only 48.6 percent of New York City students read above the national average, but students have made gains over the past decade, according to standardized test scores.

However that issue is settled in principle, it can not account for the fact that Florida made striking gains while states with equally low scores did not.