Sentences with phrase «similar scores on standardized tests»
Today, black and white adults with similar scores on standardized tests earn similar wages.
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Recent studies of voucher programs in Louisiana and Ohio found that students in taxpayer - supported private schools consistently score lower on standardized tests than demographically similar students in the public schools.
This means that similar students (i.e. students that score similarly on state standardized tests) have been making more progress (score better the next year than students with similar scores in the past) in Denver than Boulder across all student groups.
A Student Growth Percentile is a computation that compares a student to other students with similar previous year scores and predicts how much that student should «grow» as measured on an annual standardized test.
Administrators quoted in the report explain that while Uncommon Schools have historically outperformed other schools that serve similar student populations, the implementation of the CCSS has raised the bar and fewer Uncommon students are scoring at proficient and advanced levels on standardized tests.
These models, which consider student growth on standardized tests, fall roughly into four categories: «value - added models» that do not control for student background; models that do control for student background; models that compare teachers within rather than across schools; and student growth percentile (SGP) models, which measure the achievement of individual students compared to other students with similar test score histories.
They found that fewer than half (42 percent) favored incentives for «teachers whose students routinely score higher than similar students on standardized tests.»
A 2011 paper that investigated the effects of tutoring provided by teachers found that students who received tutoring in either reading or math performed significantly better on the state standardized test than a control group of students with similar prior scores who did not receive tutoring.19 Even when programs are less structured and instruction is not provided by trained teachers, tutoring can have a notable effect on student performance.