Sentences with phrase «scores among groups of students»

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These students could have a form of bipolar that's more like schizophrenia, MacCabe speculates: among the same group of Swedes, he found that students who scored the worst marks were at the greatest risk of schizophrenia.

Now say the same group of students is tested again in 8th grade, where the average score of black students turns out to be 90, versus an average of 100 among white students.

Sage is among a group of people interested in education who find many aspects of The Mind Trust plan they agree with, yet are frustrated by the sense that standardized test scores will remain the way success for students — and even teachers and schools — is defined.

The scoring also helps teachers set attainable benchmarks for individual students and locate areas of weakness and strength among groups of students.

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

The Board reported declining scores among most student groups with the notable exceptions of increases in:

California students also ranked low regardless of ethnic group — with white students among the lowest - scoring white students and African American, Latino and Asian American students among the lowest - scoring members of those groups as well.

Among 12th grade students — remember that a significant group of students has already dropped out by this point — 26 percent score at or above proficient levels in math, and 38 percent are proficient or better in reading (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2013)

While there were no significant overall gains among students of other ethnic groups, black students in their second year of private - school attendance improved their test scores by 6.3 percentile points — a striking advance at a time when schools around the country are trying to close a persistent gap between scores of white and black students.

A subsequent review of that study, however, found it downplayed results showing higher scores were concentrated among certain groups of students.

A 2004 randomized experiment, also by the Washington - based Mathematica, found score boosts among elementary students taught by TFA teachers, too, but that study was criticized in part because the control group of teachers had lower rates of certification, less formal education preparation, and less experience in student - teaching than a national sample.

Three states — in addition to the law's assessment requirements — use another cut of test score data such as improvement among subgroups of students, including those from low - income families, students from major racial and ethnic groups, students with disabilities, and English language learners.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

Reading scores among students in the comparison group were also higher at the end of the summer than at the beginning, but they were not significantly higher.

Although Achievement Level Descriptors are intended to aid interpretation of the four categories, they are less precise than scaled scores for describing student growth or changes in achievement gaps among groups of students since they do not reveal changes of student scores within the four levels.

The book points to rising test scores among many groups of students, including minorities, and argues that eradicating poverty, not overhauling the education system, is the key to lifting U.S. student performance.

But in the newly released test scores, English learners in LA Unified posted no growth at all for the second year in a row, and Latino students had one of the lowest growth rates among all other ethnic groups.

This difference was most evident among those male students who exhibited a low - propensity - to - graduate score at baseline: those who participated in the PGC program had a graduation rate of 60 percent, whereas youths in the control group had a graduation rate of 30 percent.