Sentences with phrase «standard deviation better»

The average low - performing teacher in math in a Florida school serving mostly - middle class kids is just two - hundredths of a standard deviation better than an equally laggard peer in school serving poor kids, according to a 2010 study from the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.
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.
Krueger's results indicate that students in kindergarten classrooms that had 7 to 8 fewer students than regular - sized classes performed about 3 percent of a standard deviation better for every one student fewer in their class.
Students attending a district school co-located with a charter school perform 0.08 standard deviations better in math and 0.06 standard deviations better in reading, while those in district schools within a half - mile of a charter school perform 0.02 standard deviations better in both math and reading.
Even as far back as 1984, he points out, a study by psychologist Benjamin Bloom showed that «students given personalized lessons performed two standard deviations better than their peers in a regular classroom.
He rests this claim on the fact that, on average, black students in poverty perform eight hundredths of a standard deviations better in math and six - hundredths of a standard deviation better in reading when they are in charter schools, while the numbers for Hispanic students in poverty are, respectively, seven - hundredths and thirty - five hundredths of a standard deviation.
Gary over at View From The Wing often notes that if an opportunity is several standard deviations better than the median program, it won't last.

Not exact matches

What's more, gold is looking oversold, down two standard deviations for the 60 - day period, which has historically signaled a good buying opportunity.
Standard deviation looks at a particular stock's ups and downs over time; the smoother those bumps are, the better.
What this means is that, even though the S&P was down 1.22 percent in the first quarter, the decline was well within its expected range of one standard deviation, which occurs roughly 68 percent of the time.
But the standard deviation drops as well by an average of 110 basis points.
Gold is now up at least one standard deviation for the 60 - day period, meaning now might be a good time to take some profits and rebalance.
In fact, this is still an almost - impossible «9 standard deviation event» with the odds of a 70 % or better win rate occurring less than one in a billion -LRB-.0000001 %).
My bad, his best season was 1.3 % not 1.6 % (stupid bifocals), that's 1.68 standard deviations below the mean, about 5 % likely.
I figure that the uncertainty in a sample of 4 counts is ± 2, which means that the expected value of 1 is well within 2 standard deviations.
Counting results, as well as useful statistics such as standard deviation, can be sent to the accessory printer or to a computer via the supplied USB cable.
The new analysis claims that the data disagree with existing theory to better than three standard deviations, or 3 sigma.
For December - February, the cold winters in the USA and Europe in 2010 and 2011 are very evident in figure 6a (°C anomalies), however once again looking at them in the form of standard deviations gives a better indication of the overall picture.
The summary angular data in Table 3 includes both arithmetic means with standard deviations, as well as mean directions with circular standard deviations calculated by treating our data as vectors [43].
Almedia et al. 2011: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ…735..125S Actually seem to be looking into how well the correlation between spectral type and morphology works, saying: «Given a spectral class, the morphological type wavers with a standard deviation between 2 and 3 T types, and the same large dispersion characterizes the variability of spectral classes given a morphological type.»
In general, NSC - containing wells had much higher ATP levels than the hESC wells (Fig. 2A, standard deviation for variance in each plate provided in Supplementary Materials Table S4), consistent with recent reports that ATP levels are higher in differentiated EBs than in undifferentiated hESCs [15].
Let us put this concern aside and consider the increment in student performance of 0.08 standard deviations of individual achievement that the committee presents as its best estimate.
My best estimate is that it lowers test scores for both boys and girls by approximately 4 percent of a standard deviation and has even larger effects on various measures of student engagement.
Hanushek writes that the NRC's average estimated impact of test - based accountability at 0.08 of standard deviations of student achievement «may well be too low.»
Retained students performed better than low - scoring students who were promoted by 0.13 standard deviations (4.10 percentiles) on the FCAT and 0.11 standard deviations (3.45 percentiles) on the Stanford - 9 in reading.
In math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantic.
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Their advantage in math and reading test scores in 5th grade is roughly 0.7 of a standard deviation, which amounts to well over two years of academic progress (see Figure 1).
If, under the best of conditions, schools are still incapable of adding anything but a few fractions of a standard deviation to the academic achievement of students or to their lifetime earning trajectories, might it not make sense to freeze school spending and explore supplementary policy instruments?
However, to be democratic, it would be necessary, however, that the governance of these systems count on the active participation of the population and civil society organizations in formulating goals (performance standard) to be pursued, as well as in policy or decision rules seeking to correct deviations between what was planned and carried out.
For in - person classes, an effective instructor in Math I lifts test scores in that course by 0.49 standard deviations, as well as test scores in Math II by 0.48 standard deviations.
Furthermore, while in some cases, the SES test score gap is less than 0.3 standard deviations, in other cases the gap is well above one standard deviation.
Students scored 54 points better in math and 57 in science (on a range with an international average of 500 and an international standard deviation of 100) when they had more than 200 books at home compared with students who had fewer than 10.
To estimate benefits of the policy, we converted our best estimate of the program's impact on reading scores (2.63 percentiles) to its equivalent in standard deviation terms, calculated as 0.09.
Take a good but not great teacher, one at the 69th percentile of all teachers rather than at the 50th percentile (that is, a teacher who is half a standard deviation above the average).
The students taking the course online did substantially better on assessments of algebra knowledge at the end of eighth grade, scoring 0.4 standard deviations higher than students in the control group.
Although, as the authors note, «most non-urban students do reasonably well in any case,» the causal effect of a year of non-urban charter attendance is a substantial reduction in achievement in all levels and subjects, on the order of 0.16 standard deviations in middle school with almost a quarter of a standard deviation decline in high school math.
Impressively, attending the school with the strongest civic climate (where 85 percent of students listed voting as a component of good citizenship) rather than the school with the weakest civic climate (where 46 percent chose voting) increased anticipated participation by a quarter of a standard deviation, or by about twice the effect of the individual student's having listed voting as a component of good citizenship.
All else being equal, endorsing voting as a mark of good citizenship boosted anticipated engagement by about one - eighth of a standard deviation - a slightly larger impact than resulted from an increase in parents» education of one standard deviation.
We find that black students in North Carolina do better on reading tests when matched with same - race teachers (by about 3 percent of a standard deviation), but there are no differences in their math performance.
Advocates of universal pre-k who wish to ground their position in research better hope the estimates are biased downward because they are very small, e.g., no more than one to three percent of a standard deviation difference between the children in Georgia / Oklahoma vs. other states on fourth grade NAEP achievement scores.
The results in reading outcomes were somewhat better for the voucher students under study, where they recovered by year three and outperformed the matched comparison group in year four (the year four estimate of 0.13 standard deviations was marginally statistically significant).
Existing research shows textbooks differ in their effects on student achievement in meaningful ways, with well - designed studies finding effects in the.1 to.2 standard deviation range.
(Note on calculations: I used the appendix information on how test scores varied with free and reduced price lunch status, pre-K participation, and pre-K participation interacted with free and reduced price lunch status, as well as published information on the standard deviation of test scores at kindergarten entrance.
not sure if that's the best word here) that 1 our of 6 results be one standard deviation above the mean and 1 out of 6 below the mean.
As per the full report as well, researchers more specifically found that students who were enrolled in the REACH program gained between 0.13 and 0.17 standard deviations greater gains in mathematics, and (although not as evident or highlighted in the text of the actual report, but within a related table) students who were enrolled in the REACH program gained between 0.10 and 0.05 standard deviations greater gains in reading, although these gains were also less significant in statistical terms.
Head over to a book's details page (e.g. Example) and you can click the line titled Sales Rank Stats to show the book's best, worst, average, and standard deviation in each domain that is being tracked.
The above historical performance figures from Morningstar indicate that the fund had a higher volatility (expressed as a standard deviation of returns) and underperformed the S&P 500 ® index, its best - fit benchmark, on a risk - adjusted basis (Sharpe Ratio) in both the three - and five - year trailing periods.
What I understand is the Standard Deviation close to 1 is better (avoid extreme disbursement).
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