Sentences with phrase «scores than the middle schools»

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Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

Martin Carnoy states that «the treated students in Cohort 1 were concentrated in middle schools and the effect on their reading score was significantly higher than for treated students in Cohort 2.»

A study conducted by Fordham University researchers found that reading and math scores on standardized tests are higher at IS 218 than at comparable middle schools.

In the fall, a month into the school year, only the preliminary MCAS scores were public, but Qazilbash says that the fifth - graders scored higher in math and science than any fifth - grade class that came before them in what was then South Lawrence East Middle Sschool year, only the preliminary MCAS scores were public, but Qazilbash says that the fifth - graders scored higher in math and science than any fifth - grade class that came before them in what was then South Lawrence East Middle SchoolSchool.

Controlling for key student characteristics (including demographics, prior test scores, and the prior choice to enroll in a charter middle school), students who attend a charter high school are 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than students who attend a traditional public high school.

Even after accounting for a host of other factors that influence student achievement, students who eventually attend middle schools go from scoring better than their counterparts in K — 8 schools in the year prior to transitioning to middle school to scoring below where we would expect if they were not attending a middle school.

A recent study found that when middle school students were assigned more than 90 — 100 minutes of homework per day, their math and science scores began to decline (Fernández - Alonso, Suárez - Álvarez, & Muñiz, 2015).

During the 1998 - 1999 school year, KIPP students scored higher in reading and mathematics than did kids in any other Bronx middle school program, Levin said.

At these schools, the population of entering 9th graders was less likely to be older than usual for their grade, had higher middle - school attendance rates, and had higher average 8th - grade test scores.

There are risks to assigning too much, however: A 2015 study found that when middle school students were assigned more than 90 to 100 minutes of daily homework, their math and science test scores began to decline (Fernández - Alonso, Suárez - Álvarez, & Muñiz, 2015).

Although the reduced - form estimates for high school math scores are smaller than the corresponding reduced - form estimates for middle school, the high school first stage is also smaller.

[52] Benjamin Scafidi and James P. Kelly III, «More than Scores: An Analysis of Why and How Parents Choose Middle Schools,» EdChoice, November 13, 2013, https://www.edchoice.org/research/more-than-scores/ (accessed October 26, 2016).

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.

A study by Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood found that students in New York City attending standalone middle schools score lower on standardized tests than students of the same age who attend K - 8 schools.

Beginning with the 2006 - 2007 school year, a limited English proficient student enrolled in school in the United States (excluding Puerto Rico) for less than one year as of a date determined by the commissioner and who received a valid score on the NYSESLAT may be counted as participating in an elementary or middle level English language arts assessment.

• With few exceptions, students eligible for free and reduced - priced lunch and students of color in the cities were less likely than white students to enroll in high - scoring elementary and middle schools, take advanced math courses, and take a college entrance exam.

Due to the attrition and replacement of students during the course of middle school, however, KIPP's eighth - grade students had pre-KIPP test scores that were about 6 to 7 percentile points higher than the test scores of students in district schools.

Test scores have improved, but last year, the school's passing rate was less than half the rate of the city's top charter middle schools.

Of more than 3,000 public schools statewide that fit that description, the highest API score — 967 — was earned by American Indian Public Charter, a middle school in Oakland whose students are primarily Asian, black and Latino, and have a poverty rate of 98 %.

With few exceptions, students eligible for free and reduced - price lunch and students of color in the 50 cities were less likely than more advantaged students to enroll in a high - scoring elementary and middle school, take advanced math classes in high school, and sit for the ACT / SAT.

KIPP South Fulton Academy scored first among middle schools in South Fulton, with a CCRPI score 12 points higher than the average for the entire county.

A 2012 study found that middle school students who started class an hour later than usual saw their standardized test scores increase over 2 percentile points in math on average.

So, in the minds of the education reformers, the definition of «rather than focusing on mandates from bureaucrats,» is to mandate yet another set of standardized tests that will be given to all students, starting in middle school and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are faschool and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are faschool, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are faSchool Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are failing.

Operating mostly in Memphis with mixed results, ASD has selected two middle schools in Nashville, Madison and Neely's Bend, for potential takeover even though data shows the number of students scoring proficient or advanced at the schools are nearly seven points higher than the ASD average.

On the 2016 - 2017 Georgia Milestones End - of - Course Physical Science Test, more than 90 percent of Amana Academy middle school students scored proficient or better.

In English, graduates of the program, the New York City Leadership Academy, helped increase test scores at elementary and middle schools at a faster pace than new principals with more traditional résumés, the study showed.

Across the 50 cities, white students were four times more likely than black students to enroll in a top - scoring elementary or middle school.

It seems to me we need to do a lot more than look at a middle - class school's test scores, hold it up as a great school and an example of why we don't need to test so much.

Using students» reading test scores as an indicator of U.S. students» aptitude in literacy, more than 6 in 10 students at the elementary, middle and high school level are less than proficient in reading.

For example, a study by Helen Ladd and Lucy Sorensen of North Carolina middle school students found that a teacher with midlevel experience of 12 years raised English test scores by.08 standard deviations and math test scores by.18 standard deviations more than a new teacher.33

It provides some evidence that these teachers are no more effective than other new teachers, and, in fact, they appear to be less effective at raising math scores of elementary and middle school students.

«A lot of people think performance is all about tested skills and so there's been a lot of money put into programs aimed at improving student test scores — but what we find is that improvements in attendance in the middle grades are associated with better high school outcomes than improving test scores,» said Allensworth.

Test scores at the zone's highest - performing middle school are in the bottom 9th percentile statewide, meaning more than 90 percent of other similar schools scored better.

The 2017 Illinois School Report Card data was released this week with some results less than positive: Standardized test scores declined at a majority of suburban elementary and middle schools.

The E. M. Kauffman funded Philliber Research Associates evaluation of the CDF Freedom Schools program in Kansas City conducted between 2005 - 2007 indicates children who attend CDF Freedom Schools programs score significantly higher on standardized reading achievement tests than children who attend other summer enrichment programs; African American middle schools boys made the greatest gains Schools program in Kansas City conducted between 2005 - 2007 indicates children who attend CDF Freedom Schools programs score significantly higher on standardized reading achievement tests than children who attend other summer enrichment programs; African American middle schools boys made the greatest gains Schools programs score significantly higher on standardized reading achievement tests than children who attend other summer enrichment programs; African American middle schools boys made the greatest gains schools boys made the greatest gains of all.

Results showed that third - grade test scores — whether they were higher or lower than the national average — did not correlate to students» academic growth through elementary and middle school.

But on the school - wide measures of student achievement used to calculate the local measures, Syracuse teachers obtained an average score of 6 out of 20, and even a bit lower than that for teachers in elementary and middle schools.

For the past five years, charter middle schools have had higher API Growth scores than non-charter middle schools.

And that research shows LA elementary and middle charter schools, which currently work with a more advantaged population of students, achieving notably higher test score growth than district schools.

Daniela, an eighth grader at Malibu Middle School, said, «I get C's in English and I want to score A's,» and added that she had given no thought to her tutor being 20,000 miles away, other than the situation feeling «a bit strange in the beginning.»

A 1994 study by the Search Institute examining adopted adolescents concluded some of the following facts: Adopted children score higher than their middle - class peers on indicators of school performance and social competence.