Sentences with phrase «student body scores»

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Though the student bodies in her schools have an overall poverty rate of 77 percent, they regularly register among the highest - scoring schools on standardized math and reading tests.

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Maybe there's that one teacher who is amazingly talented at what she does; or the teacher's aide who serves as a de facto grandmother to half the student body; or the chess club leader who manages to keep young boys engaged in school through early adolescence; or the superstar math teacher who seems solely responsible for a middle school's stellar math scores.

Specifically, I separated out the effects on test - score gains of a student's race and ethnicity, as well as accounted for the influence of a student's peers, by evaluating the influence of demographic characteristics of the student body, including average income level and percentage of minority students.

A growing body of literature suggests that outcomes such as test scores, attendance, and suspension rates are affected by the demographic match between teachers and students.

That's the reason there's such a strong relationship between a school's standardized - test scores and the economic and social makeup of that school's student body.

A growing body of academic research supports the use of project - based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve test scores.

(We note that we've also investigated whether school - level SES is related to the SES gap in kindergarten readiness rates, and, as with test scores, there is no relationship between the SES of the overall student body of a school and the SES gap in kindergarten readiness.)

We observe that there is virtually no relationship between the relative affluence of the overall student body of the school and the SES test score gap in that school: schools serving primarily high - SES students and those serving primarily low - SES students have the same average SES test score gaps (around 0.8 standard deviations) in both third and fifth grades.

However, note that the average SAT / ACT score is for all students whereas the mobility rate is for low - income students only (who form a relatively small portion of the student body at most colleges).

In addition, all Florida schools are graded from A to F based on the share of their student bodies that scores at high levels on the FCAT and experiences gains in their test scores from year to year.

Schools with more affluent student bodies tend to produce high test scores.

In other words, schools serving students that tend to score lower, such as low - income and minority students, are compared to schools serving similar student bodies rather than all schools in the state.

(There is a growing body of evidence that shows using student test scores to evaluate teachers is unreliable.

Allowing for possible differences in student bodies, those students opting out of government schools through a voucher program on average score better than those who apply for vouchers but do not receive them.

However, among the various influences that schools and policymakers can control, teacher quality was found to account for a larger portion of the variation in student test scores than all other characteristics of a school, excluding the composition of the student body (so - called peer effects).

So the board this year unveiled a new measure that it described as «the best single measure of equity and excellence in AP»: the percentage of the student body or of a graduating class that earns a passing score of 3 or higher on at least one AP exam.

«These findings support the view that high school performance is an excellent predictor of college success, and that efforts to recruit students from the full range of California high schools may help us fashion student bodies that are more socially diverse and more academically engaged than is possible when admissions criteria are based only on grades and test scores.

Many of these students can not be exited from the ELA program because, in spite of scoring the maximum score in the ACCESS test, they do not have the rest of the body of evidence (grades, state test scores) DPS requires to get them exited due to lack of work ethic, motivation or teachers who know how to teach this type of long term ELs.

Although interventions and instruction will likely not be modified, terminated, or initiated as a result of spring screening scores, these scores can provide a body of evidence for the upcoming school year in regard to planning for student needs in the next school year.

Taft's student body is 73 percent low - income, and when Williamson arrived at the school 10 years ago test scores were low, morale was dismal, and student behavior was out of control.

Alliance high schools have succeeded in producing academic achievers in the upper 1 / 3rd of their student body whose SAT scores are within striking distance of the national average, despite operating in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the United States.

These numbers are based on student test scores — U.S. News compared those test scores to state averages as a way of calculating how well a school serves its student body.

For four years I taught in an all - boys public school in Queens that serves an almost 100 percent African - American student body — a population of students that has been historically and systematically under - represented in the upper echelon of standardized test scores for many factors beyond anyone's control.

The statistics, student body, test scores, and more are all cooked from both sides so no truth will shine in.

And attending a school in which blacks and Hispanics make up more than 75 percent of the student body lowers achievement of black, Hispanic, and Asian students but does not affect white students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whites).

A strong body of recent research has found that there is no valid method of calculating «value - added» scores which compare pass rates from one year to the next, nor do current value - added models adequately account for factors outside the school that influence student performance scores.

An ever - growing body of research on SEL in afterschool shows that students who participate in high - quality afterschool programs that incorporate SEL see significant improvements in grades, test scores, attachment to school and positive behavior.

Measuring Academic Performance: The Case for Focusing on Grades Despite all the attention to standardized tests, a growing body of research shows that achievement test scores are not strong predictors of whether students will graduate from high school or college.

The Desert Trails student body is overwhelmingly poor: Of the 400 students whose test scores were included in the 2012 API score, every one of them was categorized as «socioeconomically disadvantaged» by the state.

TVAAS scores measure gains in student achievement and permit schools to be compared regardless of differences in student body composition.

A sizeable body of evidence has documented the effectiveness of Teach For America (TFA) corps members at raising the mathematics test scores of their students, though little is known about the program's impact at the school level.