Sentences with phrase «scores than their peers»

Our students typically see up to two to three times more growth in their reading scores than their peers.

In fact, 2008 graduates both with and without STEM majors who entered the teacher workforce had higher average SAT scores than their peers who entered other occupations.

College - bound seniors who say they want to major in education have lower scores than their peers — an often - lamented fact.

And both those who enter and remain in teaching typically have lower test scores than their peers.

They also believe that children in care, who statistically have considerably lower attainment scores than their peers, could be lowering the published outcomes of primary schools in the areas where numbers have dramatically increased.

And, in a recent SEND release from the DfE we can see for the first time that this new measure does result in pupils with SEND receiving lower progress scores than their peers, here are the 2015/2016 progress scores for pupils with and without SEN:

Participants in social and emotional learning activities performed about 13 percent higher in grades and test scores than their peers, the study found.

Eight studies that tracked the academic achievement of students for an average of 3.75 years after a social and emotional learning program found that participants performed about 13 percentage points higher in grades and standardized test scores than their peers, according to a 2017 overview of 82 social and emotional studies by researchers affiliated with the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning.

Not exact matches

And while Canada isn't exactly a world - beater on this score, we do show up a heck of a lot better than some of our peers — say in the UK, France or certainly the US.

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

Researchers have found that children aged 3, who as premature babies have several episodes of apnea and bradycardia, have lower scores in developmental tests than their peers.

You can rest easy here as well as research again indicates that homeschoolers» scores are typically higher than that of their public school peers.

Level 1 students taught by these teachers two years in a row were almost 7 times more likely to score a Level 3 or above in 2013 - 14 than their peers not assigned to highly effective teachers.

Physically active children are healthier and score better on intellectual tests than their sedentary peers.

A year later, the math scores of the kids with glasses had improved far more than those of peers in the other schools.

Those who do not master the language and remain English learners tend to score lower on academic tests and graduate high school at lower rates than their native - English speaking peers.

Overall, the researchers report, students who learned metacognition skills scored around 4 percent higher on the final exam than their peers in the control section.

Women with the least - inflammatory diets (based on a scoring system called the Dietary Inflammatory Index) lost less bone density during the six - year follow - up period than their peers with the most - inflammatory diets.

However, when tests include cognitively challenging questions that require elevated critical thinking, females and lower socioeconomic students score lower than their male or high - status peers, even though the students have equal academic ability.

He makes a convincing case for incorporating valuable but less easily measured attributes into our view of intelligence, such as the persistence that can propel driven students to higher test scores than their less committed peers and the creativity demonstrated by individuals more in tune with intuition than intellect.

English language learners who participated in the intervention also scored significantly higher in math than their peers in the control group.

Children in Quebec, on average, scored at least five points higher than peers in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Manitoba.

They found in 1986 that men who score high on the CHS report less marital satisfaction than their peers who do not use humor as much to cope.

In a new longitudinal study, first - generation immigrant children who took part in a community - based intervention had higher scores on math and reading tests than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the program.

After taking into account their parents» income and education — factors that are known to affect exam scores — the highest - achieving students were more than three times more likely to suffer from the mental illness than their average peers.

First graders who learned to write in cursive scored higher on reading and spelling than peers who wrote in print.

This one is in the 41st percentile — i.e., 41 % of its peers scored the same or lower than it.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

The result is that African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher than their public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.

Why do kids from low - income families tend to score so much lower on average than their more - affluent peers?

Their peers» average test scores are about 0.15 standard deviations higher, and the new schools have higher - quality teachers, measured in terms of the fraction of teachers with less than three years» experience, the fraction that are new to the school that year, the percentage of teachers with an advanced degree, and the share of teachers who attended a «highly competitive» college as defined by the Barron's rankings.

But even when all students are included in the analysis, African - American students who attended private schools scored significantly higher than their public school peers (see Figure 2).

Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

Ludger Woessman (see «Merit Pay International,» research) looked at 27 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and found that students in countries with some form of performance pay for teachers score about 25 percent of a standard deviation higher on the international math test than do their peers in countries without teacher performance pay.

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

So producing students who are creative, who can navigate delicate social situations, who encourage their peers to perform better, who take extra science classes, or who can figure out the right questions to be asking in the first place is a lower priority than producing students who can nudge test scores higher.

This comports with the interpretation that average peer achievement influences everyone's test scores, since Asians score higher than whites in math overall (the Asian - white score gap is positive and relatively large in math, 0.62 of a standard deviation in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades).

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

, peer grading teaches them that some assignments don't matter; that they don't have to work too hard on those assignments because the teacher will never see them anyway; and that they can ease their embarrassment about their own errors by teasing those whose scores are a little lower — or significantly higher — than their own.

Among students assigned to different teachers with the same Overall Classroom Practices score, math achievement will grow more for students whose teacher is better than his peers at classroom management (i.e., has a higher score on our Classroom Management vs. Instructional Practices measure).

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

While younger students may have benefited slightly from the voucher program after one year, the older students who switched to private schools scored significantly lower than their public - school peers after one year.

Advantaged students score the equivalent of more than one PISA proficiency level higher in financial literacy than their disadvantaged peers.

On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portion.

At Blackstone Valley Prep, analysis of the suburban and urban students» scores on the 2013 state exams measuring proficiency in reading and math offers 80 different snapshots, by grade, subject and family income, with Blackstone students faring better than their peers on nearly all.

Those students are scoring, on average, 10 percent of a standard deviation better than they would have otherwise, and since each peer evaluator evaluates 10 to 15 teachers each year, those gains are occurring in multiple teachers» classrooms for a number of years.

Sixth - and seventh - grade Citizen Schools participants earned better grades than peers who did not attend the program in English and math and scored higher on a state English exam during their first year in the program, all at statistically significant levels.

Another study, in the peer - reviewed journal IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, found that software was able to make judgments about students» levels of engagement that were as reliable as those of human observers, and that these video - based engagement scores predicted post-test scores better than pre-test scores could.

That report, Dick and Jane Go to the Head of the Class, contends that data from those three studies indicate that students in schools with strong library media programs learn more and score higher on standardized tests than do their peers in schools with less adequate library facilities.

We found negligible differences in teacher quality between programs, amounting to no more than 3 percent of the average test - score gap between students from low - income families and their more affluent peers.