Sentences with phrase «student test scores above»

These — and more — initiatives are helping the district raise student test scores above state and national averages.

As we typically see, the U.S. students tested score above average, but definitely aren't leading the class.

Not exact matches

Only about one black student in seven scores above the 50th percentile on standardized college admissions tests.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

This can be an especially helpful tool if your student has above or below average scores on their test, and can assist in encouraging your student further.

For example, research has found homeschoolers generally score 15 to 30 percentile points above public school students on standardized tests and they're achieving above average scores on the ACT and SAT tests.

Although white students comprised 55 % of the representative sample of 122,000 middle school students who took portions of the test, they make up 76 % of those scoring above 176.

For example, in the study on summer school, Matsudaira compared students whose test scores were just above the level that made them eligible for summer school with those who were just below it to see if the extra schooling improved students» test scores.

They chose schools that were both above and below average when it came to student test scores and collective efficacy for teachers.

He takes the case of AP Calculus results in Detroit and estimates that if the city were to restrict the course to students who score 66 or above on the PSAT Math test, then the resulting cost per passing score on the AP test would be $ 1,167.

But then researchers looking at student traits above and beyond IQ and test - scores birthed a revolution in «non-cognitive» factors in education.

EC students are considered eligible to advance to a class at a higher level if they obtain a compiled test score of 70 or above.

At Summit Prep, 82 percent of students scored proficient or above on that test.

In order to take a piece down ~ the class has to average 90 or above on tests.The students naturally became motivated (because they were interested) ~ and my test scores benefited.

These «value - added» measures are subject to some of the same problems, but by focusing on what students learn over the course of the year, they are a significant improvement over a simple average test score (or, worse yet, the percentage of students that score above an arbitrary «proficiency» threshold).

The extent to which a school is above or below that line indicates whether the average test - score improvement among its students has been greater or less than would be predicted based on their fluid cognitive skills.

This issue's research section offers a first - of - its - kind study examining the impact of instructor quality on student achievement in the higher education sector — finding that students taught by above - average instructors receive higher grades and test scores, are more likely to succeed in subsequent courses, and earn more college credits.

As noted above, one of the benefits of the analysis presented here is that it relies on student performance on NAEP, which should be relatively immune from such test - score «inflation» since it is not used as a high - stakes test under NCLB or any other accountability system.

The law allowed for exceptions to the retention policy if a student had limited English proficiency or a severe disability, scored above the 51st percentile on the Stanford - 9 standardized test, had demonstrated proficiency through a performance portfolio, or had already been held back for two years.

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.

And two studies cited above — the one by Elder and Lubotsky and the one by Cascio and Schanzenbach — find that, with age held constant, learning with older classmates boosts students» test scores.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the opposite phenomenon occurred: students switching from traditional public to charter schools appear to have been above - average performers compared with the other students in their school.

Vallas had based his accountability system almost entirely on what percentage of all students scored at or above national averages on the norm - referenced Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

The NCLB accountability system divides schools into those in which a sufficient number of students score at the proficient level or above on state tests to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) benchmarks («make AYP») and those that fail to make AYP.

On average, the 4th - grade math and reading test scores of KIPP late entrants were 0.15 to 0.16 standard deviations above the district average, putting them 0.19 standard deviations above the scores of students who enrolled in the normal intake grade.

Expand the use of «accountability indexes» to include measures beyond test scores and to give schools credit for students well above and below the proficient level.

And on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)- the state's standardized test, first administered in the spring of 1998 - Worcester public school students in different grade levels were 8 to 20 percentage points less likely to score at or above proficiency than were students statewide.

Florida's scholarship students are among the most disadvantaged — the average household income of scholarship families was only $ 24,067 this year, 4.5 percent above the poverty line — yet on math and read tests, they still score near the national median among all students from all income ranges.

The Arkansas Department of Education has announced that students who score at level 3 or above on new Common Core tests will be deemed «proficient,» even though the makers of the test say that only students who score at level 4 or above are on track to graduate from high school with the skills they need to be ready for college or a career.

More than 90 percent of Southern students» scores on standardized tests in the 1986 - 87 school year were at or above national averages, a report by the Southern Regional Education Board has found.

The percentage of students scoring at or above grade level on the state's proficiency tests has risen from 56 percent to nearly 75 percent in just six years.

Only 48.6 percent of New York City students read above the national average, but students have made gains over the past decade, according to standardized test scores.

[6] Several studies estimated the causal effect of being assigned to remediation on future college outcomes by comparing students just above and below test score cutoffs for remedial placement.

In addition to our main experiment testing the ECO-C Intervention's effects on our target group of high - achieving, low - income students, we also used the same approach to study its effects on students who meet the same test - score criteria but who have estimated family income above the bottom one - third or attended a feeder high school.

Students scoring at or above grade level on state tests doubled from 31 percent in 2004 to 62 percent in 2014.

To rule out this possibility, we rely on school - level data on the percentage of students achieving level 4 in Key Stage 2 English, as the more detailed student - level test scores examined above are not available before 1996.

Students in New York are tested using the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test and the Otis - Lennon School Ability Test and must score 90 percentile or above to enter district programs and 97 percentile or above to qualify for city programs.

I saw my mainstream students scoring three and four grades above their grade level on standardized tests.

Overall, NSW students scored above the national average and rank in the top three for all tests for all year levels.

Use Every - Day Edits to build language skills, test scores, and cultural literacy with students in grades 4 and above.

In California, 75 % of white third - grade students who attend public schools without the minimum threshold number of ELL students perform at or above the proficient level on the state's mathematics assessment test, whereas just 67 % of the white California third - graders who attend schools with the minimum threshold number of ELL students score at or above the proficient level.

LIST: In just a nine - month program, we can move an Hispanic student from around the 30th percentile in test scores to above the 50th percentile in test scores.

In the five states with large ELL student populations, the proportion of ELL students scoring at or above the proficient level on the state mathematics test is often below the proportion of black students scoring at or above the proficient level.

The 44 higher - performing schools (those with average school - wide math and English test scores a full standard deviation above the mean) «create a shared, school - wide intense focus on the improvement of student outcomes,» it says.

These analyses examine how the sizes of the overall effects reported above vary based on the density of nearby charter schools, the quality of the charter school (based on test - score performance and charter operator), and a range of student characteristics.

In general, the higher the percentage of students in a school eligible for Free Lunch, the lower the percentage of students who score proficient or above on state tests.

Specifically, we predicted the percentage of students at the district and school levels who score proficient or above on their state's mandated standardized tests, without using any school - specific information such as length of school day, teacher mobility, computer - to - student ratio, etc..

The higher the percentage of students with English language learning needs (second language learners) in a school the lower the percentage of students scoring proficient or above on state tests.

We accurately predicted the percentage of students scoring proficient or above on the Grade 7 language arts tests for 77 % of the districts and 66 % of the districts in math for our statewide sample of 388 school districts (Tienken, 2014).

Test scores: More than 80 percent of students score at or above grade level in math, and 73 percent in reading, on the CTB