Sentences with phrase «scoring smaller gains»

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On the contrary, it is not unusual for high - momentum small - cap growth stocks to rapidly score such massive gains.

Commonly called the «debt snowball,» this strategy can help you win the crucial psychological battle of overcoming debt: Paying off the smallest balances first means you'll score some «big wins» and start gaining momentum right away in what can be a long, discouraging process.

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.

If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

In particular, since 2001 (that is, since NCLB was passed), there have been sizable gains in NAEP 4th - and 8th - grade math tests, small improvements in 4th - and 8th - grade reading tests, and very little change in 12th - grade scores.

Ravitch found that during Klein's five - year tenure academic gains have been smaller than during the previous five years and that the reading scores of cohorts of students are actually declining as they progress through the system.

RAND II found only small NAEP achievement gains in Texas, similar to those nationwide and contrasting sharply with «soaring» scores on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS).

The gains for students with prior scores in the top quarter are the smallest, at 0.05 and 0.03 standard deviations in mathematics and English, respectively.

A study of test scores from 2010 through 2014, by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University, found that Denver's charters produced «remarkably large gains in math,» large gains in writing, and smaller but statistically significant gains in reading, compared to DPS - operated schools.

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.

A Sacramento Bee story, Smaller Classes Post Gains on Test (11/25/97), reports that test scores have risen and discipline problems have decreased in the San Juan Unified District.

Teachers also appear to generate higher test - score gains during the year they are being evaluated, though these estimates, while consistently positive, are smaller.

Among all the schools, the average gain score was not strongly related to school size, but the variance between schools was much larger for small schools.

To test for this possibility, we compared the gains made by F schools with the performance of an even smaller subset of schools whose 2002 test scores were similar but had never received an F (which we termed low - performing non-F schools).

As hypothesized, actual voucher competition produced the largest improvements in test scores, while the prospect of facing voucher competition produced somewhat smaller gains.

Classrooms with relatively big gains on this year's test and relatively small gains on next year's test will score high on this indicator.

These two indicators of cheating — unusually large increases followed by small gains or even declines in test scores the next year and unexpected patterns in students» answers — form the basis of our method for detecting evidence of suspected cheating.

Overall scoring patterns in New York State remained largely unchanged, with black and Hispanic students making small proficiency gains but remaining at least 20 percentage points behind white test - takers.

We first subtracted from each student's test score performance the child's demonstrated knowledge the previous year.We then adjusted those one - year - gain scores to take into account a statistical property that artificially generates larger gains for initially low - performing students (and smaller gains for high performers).

However ~ NAEP shows minimalto - no improvement for these students ~ and some losses; whats more ~ white and Hispanic students scores fell by 3 points ~ and black students scores stayed the same ~ so only the influx of new wealthier students with higher scores could account for the small overall gain.

An elementary school in an isolated corner of Colorado saw a 9 - point spike in its state math scores, and smaller gains in other subjects.

Naturally, schools with high test scores show the smallest academic gains, while schools with low test scores show the largest academic gains.

Each preceding year the gain scores were much smaller and in a number of cases regressed.

And you give a low score to teachers whose students show smaller test - score gains.

Looking at a 4 - 5 point gain in Reading will look very small as it should given the large scale score range.

Small numbers of students tested in several MassInsight award - winning schools suggest that MCAS score gains may reflect little more than variations in the testing pool.

And a new study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University — although not studying the important question of whether teachers who receive high scores on TAP evaluations tend to produce greater gains in their students» test scores — found that a small sample of secondary schools using TAP produced no higher levels of student achievement than schools that hadn't implemented the TAP program.

Small numbers of students tested mean MCAS score gains in award - winning schools may represent little more than good luck.

Colorado students in 2014 took slight steps backward on the small academic gains made on standardized tests in recent years, part of a long - term trend of flat scores, results released Thursday show.

For example, high turnover of students throughout the year can affect the gains students make on achievement tests; and, if the class size is small, the scores of only a few students can affect the size of the gains.

Because the gains in charters are so small, the authors here attempt to translate test scores into months of learning.

Results have been mixed, ranging from gains in high school graduation and college enrollment rates (e.g., Chingos and Peterson 2012), small increases in reading and math scores (e.g., Greene et al. 1998), or increases in math but not reading scores (Rouse 1998), to no significant change in test scores (e.g., Howell and Peterson 2006; Wolf et al. 2011).

Students just learning to speak English made smaller gains at scoring «proficient» and at or above «goal» than their native English - speaking counterparts in all grade levels and content.»

David Whitman documents in Sweating the Small Stuff that dramatic gains in test scores have been reported for students enrolled in a number of the elementary and secondary schools profiled in his book.

NAEP SCORES SLIP AND SPIN ENSUES: Fourth and eighth grade student scores on the Nation's Report Card took an «unexpected downturn» this year after more than two dozen years of small and steady gains, prompting immediate recriminations over the Common Core, testing and the Obama administration's education polSCORES SLIP AND SPIN ENSUES: Fourth and eighth grade student scores on the Nation's Report Card took an «unexpected downturn» this year after more than two dozen years of small and steady gains, prompting immediate recriminations over the Common Core, testing and the Obama administration's education polscores on the Nation's Report Card took an «unexpected downturn» this year after more than two dozen years of small and steady gains, prompting immediate recriminations over the Common Core, testing and the Obama administration's education policies.

Given enough time, school choice programs create small, positive test score gains for participating students.

In many years, there will be a small number of stocks that score gains of 200 %, 300 % or more.