Sentences with phrase «significant test score gains»

In some cities, like Boston and New Orleans, students attending charter schools have demonstrated significant test score gains.

They will note that the prior RCT of DC vouchers showed significant test score gains after three years (although the p value rose to.06 in year four even as the positive estimate remained).

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She managed the historic introduction of universal pre-K and oversaw significant gains in student achievement from test scores to high school graduation rates.

Doctoral student Helen Malone has been researching time and learning and says that because this is so new, «there's no rigorous data yet, but what they are finding is that kids are making significant gains on standardized test scores.»

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.

These strong long - term outcomes — which tend to be much more significant than any short - term test - score gains — likely reflect Catholic schools» focus on discipline and character as much as their excellent academics.

This statistically significant difference of -0.23 standard deviations is in the opposite direction of that expected, based on the student - level relationships between self - control and test - score gains displayed above.

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.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

Despite the vast majority of randomized control trials (RCTs) of private school choice showing significant, positive test score effects for at least some subgroups of students, some of those gains have been modest and other effects have been null for at least some subgroups.

He notes that his policy is based on the efforts of North Carolina, where significant gains were made in test scores last year.

Each of these results is statistically significant at a very high level, meaning that we can be highly confident that the test - score gains made by schools facing the actuality or prospect of voucher competition were larger than the gains made by other public schools.

«We find that following a ban on phone use, student test scores improve by 6.41 %... our results indicate that there are no significant gains in student performance if a ban is not widely complied with,» Beland and Murphy write in the LSE paper.

No significant correlation was found between increased spending on education and test score gains.

In the very next sentence, he points out that the MET project has two stated premises guiding its work — that, whenever feasible, teacher evaluations should be based «to a significant extent» on student test score gains; and that other components of evaluations (such as observations), in order to be considered valid, must be correlated with test score gains.

In only 3 of the 8 models presented is there any statistically significant relationship between either classroom observations or student surveys and test score gains (I'm excluding the 2 instances were they report p <.1 as statistically significant).

The thousands of participating elementary and middle schools consistently report improved student skills in metacognition, inference from context, decontextualization, and information synthesis, along with significant standardized test score gains (Pogrow, 1988, 1990).

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.

Yet the school is made to sound like an absolutely fabulous place where «school officials expect significant gains over 2010» test scores.

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).

As reported in the Wall Street Journal, a rigorous long - term study found that TEP produced major achievement impacts, including test score gains equal to an additional 1.6 years of school in math, with significant gains in science and English.

While there were no significant overall gains among students of other ethnic groups, black students in their second year of private - school attendance improved their test scores by 6.3 percentile points — a striking advance at a time when schools around the country are trying to close a persistent gap between scores of white and black students.

In a study of three districts using standards - based evaluation systems, researchers found significant relationships between teachers» ratings and their students» gain scores on standardized tests, and evidence that teachers» practice improved as they were given frequent feedback in relation to the standards.

They also omit the fact that there actually was good reason to question this year's scores, with 14 out of 14 states using the Smarter Balanced English language arts tests showing no gains — a significant statistical curiosity.

The school met its three - year improvement goals in a single year and achieved the greatest gains in state test scores of all 35 of the state's «Level 4» schools, including significant gains in both English and mathematics.

While the school continued to post low test scores, Rizga found that Mission was making significant gains in other areas: rising college acceptance rates, decreasing dropout rates and improvement in students» critical thinking and other high - level skills.

iPhone 6s units with a TSMC A9 processor score two hours» better battery life over those with Samsung chips in GeekBench test scores, but real - world gains of the «good» chip might be much less significant.