Sentences with phrase «see test score gains»

The researchers found, for example, that a school with improvements in school climate and violence in one time period tended not to see test score gains in a subsequent time period.

Not exact matches

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

But ever since becoming a federally funded turnaround school in 2010, these meetings have become cherished time for the teachers and, according to Nolan, one of the key reasons their elementary school — once one of the lowest achieving in Boston — has seen significant gains on test scores.

Yes, many interventions that boost test scores, such as being assigned to an effective teacher, have been shown to generate substantial gains in later earnings (see «Great Teaching,» research, Summer 2012).

A compelling way to see this is to look at the relationship across schools between the average test - score gain students make between the 4th and 8th grade and our summary measure of their students» fluid cognitive ability at the end of that period (see Figure 2).

In 1998, Florida scored about one grade level below the national average on the 4th - grade NAEP reading test, but it was scoring above that average by 2003, and made further gains in subsequent years (see Figure 1).

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

Arlington schools as a whole saw notable gains in reading and math scores, with 86 percent and 87 percent of students districtwide passing those subject tests.

Achievement can be measured quantitatively, and we have seen gains in state and national testing results such as the SAT and AP test scores.

In reading, the observed gain declined from 3.1 to 1.6 percentile points, but it still represented 29 percent of the black - white test - score gap in reading (see Figure 2).

If we link test scores to monetary gain, I have no doubt that we will see some increases in test scores but at what cost and by what means?»

When you break the test scores down by ethnicity and weight them by their percentage of the student population, it's interesting to see how both white and Hispanic test gains contributed more to the average score than black gains.

Featured in The Hechinger Report: With Achieve3000, struggling Quitman Street Renew School sees highest reading test score gains of all 45 Newark elementary and middle schools.

Additionally, the Promising Afterschool Programs Study, concluded in 2007, found that disadvantaged students who regularly participate in high - quality after - school programs usually see significant gains in test scores and work habits, as well as a corresponding decrease in behavioral issues in school.

Those with fewer computers were seeing larger educational gains, as measured by PISA test score changes between 2009 and 2012.

In the pilot, state test score gains in a particular class were analyzed and scored relative to the student's predicted growth based on past scores, and relative to the average gains seen across the district and within different groups of the student population.

I do see problems with judging teachers solely on test score gains in reading and math, but we've got to start somewhere.

When Sara Neufeld wrote in The Hechinger Report last year that Newark's Quitman Street Renew School had the greatest test score gains in reading of all 45 elementary and middle schools in Newark the prior spring, we at Education Elements saw it as triumph.

This summer, they received their state test scores and every grade level and subject saw gains.

In fact, schools implementing this model saw greater gains in student test scores.

But now that the national distribution of test scores is more normal, resembling a conventional bell curve, it is unlikely that we will see the kinds of huge gains we saw in the 1990s and early 2000s again, according to Commissioner Buckley.

Graduation rates were also higher for higher - income students, though they did not see any test - score gains.

After establishing what Ripley describes as a more rigorous core curriculum nationally, with over 100 approved curricula that teachers can use at the local level, Poland began to see gains in their student achievement scores on the PISA test.

After controlling for poverty and test scores from previous years, the Responsive Classroom (RC) approach contributed to the gains in both reading and math, with a greater difference between the intervention and control schools seen in math.