Sentences with phrase «scores than students»

In general, students who perceive themselves as capable tend to obtain better grades and higher test scores than students with lower capability beliefs.

Students whose fathers were University graduates had higher scores than students whose fathers were graduates from a high School or Elementary School.

Students in public schools faced with increased private school competition showed greater gains in test scores than students in other public schools with the introduction of the program.

A 2012 study by the National Education Policy Center found that students attending K12 «are falling further behind in reading and math scores than students in brick - and - mortar schools.»

2012 study by the National Education Policy Center found that students attending K12 «are falling further behind in reading and math scores than students in brick - and - mortar schools.»

The study authors reported that students in the intervention group had higher math scores than students in the comparison group, but only for students of parents with high math anxiety.

Students in blended reading classes are more likely to improve their state test scores than students in traditional reading classes.

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153

Of course, many of those charter schools had better scores than the districts from which their students came and should be expected to have better scores than the students» originating public school districts because the charter schools have siphoned off some students with drive and potential from those districts.

At the middle school level, pilot school students have somewhat lower baseline scores than students at traditional schools, while the baseline scores of charter students are higher than those of students in traditional BPS schools.

JM: Well a typical study would find that the people, the students whose work was in the disfavoured category received lower scores, statistically, significantly, lower scores than the students who were in the favoured group.

By 2004, Icahn 4th graders were posting higher test scores than students in any other school in the Bronx, save for a couple in the affluent Riverdale section.

That year, Slavin found, the Success for All students had much better reading scores than students not in the program, and special education placements decreased.

In 1994, 9 -, 13 -, and 17 - year - old students who reported reading for fun at least once a week had higher average reading proficiency scores than students who reported never or hardly ever reading for fun.

Students in Catholic and secular private schools have higher tolerance scores than students in assigned public schools, averaging 1.6 and 1.8 tolerant responses respectively, compared with 1.4 tolerant responses among assigned public school students.

For both groups, students who leave early tend to have markedly lower grade 4 test scores than students who stay (see Figure 3).

Not only do the lottery students have higher test scores than students at the eligibility cutoff, but their test scores exceed those of the average G&T student in the district.

Urban students in grades seven and eight who were engaged in the LeTUS inquiry - based science curriculum demonstrated higher standardized test scores than students engaged in traditional instruction in a sample of 5,000 students.

Students whose teachers have not switched grades show greater improvement in test scores than students in similar classrooms with equally experienced teachers who switched grades frequently.

In other words, students who thought they were being taught by women gave lower evaluation scores than students who thought they were being taught by men.

Research shows that students who learned through Defined STEM projects have shown improved engagement, 21st century skills, and achieved +39 % higher test scored than students who received traditional instruction.

As a result, too many mistakes and errors are often left unchecked, culminating in a worse score than the student actually deserves.

Here, a high credit card balance in relation to the card's credit limit (credit utilization) can do much more damage to your score than a student loan balance many times higher.

Not exact matches

In a three - month study with 7th graders, students who learned using interleaving scored 25 percent better than those who learned by blocking.

The meta - analysis, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that teaching approaches that turned students into active participants rather than passive listeners reduced failure rates and boosted scores on exams by almost one - half a standard deviation.

Together, these requirements create a triple whammy for some first - time homebuyers who often have smaller down payments, higher debt obligations — such as student loans — and traditionally lower credit scores than more seasoned buyers.

The main benefit of the stock market game is that students who take part in it earn higher scores on personal finance exams than those who do not play it.

The median GMAT score for its latest entering class of 710 is pretty darn impressive, considering that most of these students haven't taken a standardized test in more than 15 years.

If your credit score is less than stellar, you still might be able to qualify for a private student loan.

Today, fewer than half of high - scoring students from low - income families even enroll at four - year schools.

In your article around Baltimore's technology gap («Computer - based tests a challenge for low - income students, some Baltimore teachers say,» April 22), we read that students who took the PARCC scored lower when they took the test on a computer than when they used paper and pencil.

Many students have lower scores than those who have graduated and have stable income from a full - time job, so there is a good chance that you can qualify for a better rate.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

In fact, the researchers report that «if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide, it could close the gap between white and minority test scores by at least a third, possibly by more than half.»

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Most people with mild autism would not be college students and score more than GPA of 3.70.

From Men in Blazers: America SCORES is non-profit organization that promotes football and poetry with students at more than 175 public and charter schools across North America.

A high school student's GPA, researchers have found, is a better predictor of her likelihood to graduate from college than her scores on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.

Remarkably, Jackson found that this simple noncognitive proxy was a better predictor than a student's test scores of whether the student would attend college, a better predictor of adult wages, and a better predictor of future arrests.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

And yet those teachers, according to Jackson's calculations, were doing more to get those students to college and raise their future wages than were the much celebrated teachers who boosted students» test scores.

He argued that because athletes with lower academic scores are being admitted into better colleges than other students, the best colleges in the nation are not selecting and breeding top academics to compete with the rest of the world.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, a protà © gà © of Seligman's, has done a range of studies — on college students with low SAT scores, West Point plebes, and national spelling bee contestants, among others — and has found that a determined response to setbacks, an ability to focus on a task, and other noncognitive character strengths are highly predictive of success, much more so than IQ scores.

District food directors won't even consider dishes that score lower than 80 percent approval ratings from student tasting panels.

Homeschooled students have been shown to have higher average scores on the ACT test (26.5) than their public school peers (25).

The goal should be for students to master a certain skill or lesson rather than for them to earn a certain mark or score for performing the task.

Dr. Pope's org Challenge Success, which used more than twenty studies on homework for its papers, found similar results, reporting,» [I] n a recent study comparing the standardized math scores across multiple countries, no positive link was found between student math achievement and the frequency or amount of homework given (Baker & LeTendre, 2005).

And yet those teachers, according to Jackson's calculations, were doing more to get their students to college and raise their future wages than were the much - celebrated teachers who boosted students» test scores.