Sentences with phrase «test score data shows»

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► «Armed with new data showing black applicants suffer a 35 % lower chance of having a grant proposal funded than their white counterparts, NIH officials are gearing up to test whether reviewers in its study sections give lower scores to proposals from African - American applicants,» Jeffrey Mervis wrote on Thursday.

Before the randomized food challenge, researchers collected blood from all patients and analyzed the results, which showed a strong correlation between BAT testing data and food challenge severity scores.

For instance, data may show that the students who pass through one teacher's class consistently score lower on state achievement tests than the students in another teacher's class.

It cites 2011 TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) data showing no significant difference in the scores of Australian boys and girls in Year 4 and Year 8, and notes that male and female students perform equally in international comparative testing in Singapore — a top five country in PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) mathematics.

For example, Krueger (1998) uses data from the NAEP and documents test score increases over time, with large improvements for disadvantaged children from poor urban areas; the Current Population Survey shows declining dropout rates since 1975 for those from the lowest income quartile (Digest of Education Statistics, NCES 2012).

The data showed a 14 percent increase in math scores and an 11 percent increase in language arts scores on the state's tests.

In response to the criticism that teacher impacts on student test scores are inconsistent over time, the authors show that «although VA measures fluctuate across years, they are sufficiently stable» that selecting teachers even based on a few years of data would have substantial impacts on student outcomes, such as earnings.

«We have data that shows that if teachers scored high on their evaluations, students showed improvement on state tests.»

Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

The only data ever published showing that test - optional and «don't ask, don't tell» test score practices get private and public universities stronger and more socially diverse students than admissions that require test scores; and

Data also show that students in the reduced - size classrooms had higher standardized test scores in reading and mathematics than did students in the control group.»

Data from 22,000 children involved in this study of the kindergarten class of 1998 — 99 show that, after controlling for family income, children who attended more academically oriented preschools had significantly higher scores in reading, math, and general knowledge when tested in the fall of their kindergarten year than children in preschool settings without academic content.

The data also show that kids with the highest test scores are the most active in afterschool activities.

Recent studies using lottery data — that is, comparing applicants who gained a seat in a charter school versus those who were turned away — show positive impacts on student test scores.

To continue with our hypothetical example, the data show that all of the test scores, 1 through 4, are somewhat related to one another, which is consistent with the existence of g.

The Wilmette data were very specific, showing girls ahead in both grades and test scores.

States and localities would be responsible for improving schools with low test scores, and they would still have to break out testing data to show how poor, minority and disabled students are performing — a provision in NCLB that the majority of lawmakers still believes is necessary.

NAEP shows large statewide declines in charter scores since 2013, and the state's own testing data pointing in the same direction specifically for New Orleans.

Reardon and Portilla noted that other data — from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- show that the white - black and white - Hispanic gaps in fourth - grade test scores likewise narrowed between the same cohorts of children.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant had ordered L.A. Unified to show that it was using test scores in evaluations by Tuesday after ruling earlier this year that state law required such data as evidence of whether teachers have helped their students progress academically.

At the time, state data showed that, among Indiana schools with more than 90 percent of students receiving free or reduced price lunch, Christel House had higher test scores than every other charter school and all but a handful of traditional public schools.

Whether these report cards use A through F letter grades or some other measure, the idea is the same: to use student test scores and other data to show how well schools are doing.

Oregon doesn't provide statewide statistics on charter school performance, and many of the schools are too new for their standardized tests scores to show up in the 02 - 03 data, the most recent available from the state Education Department.

The Times sought three years of district data, from 2009 through 2012, that show whether individual teachers helped — or hurt — students academic achievement, as measured by state standardized test scores.

Related story: India data show test scores rise when students are automatically promoted to the next grade

Because they have spent little on developing robust data systems that can monitor student achievement and teacher performance means (and thanks to state laws that had banned the use of student test score data in teacher evaluations), districts haven't been able to help those aspiring teachers by pairing them with good - to - great instructors who can show them the ropes.

Federal data shows their educators are less experienced and less likely to have majored in the subject they're teaching, and generally, they have less impressive records in helping students grow their test scores.

Even if we were confident that the test score gains in New Orleans are not being driven by changes in the student population following Katrina (and Doug and his colleagues are doing their best with constrained data and research design to show that), and even if these test score gains translate into higher high school graduation and college attendance rates (which Doug and his colleagues have not yet been able to examine), we still would have no idea whether portfolio management and other high regulations in NOLA helped, hurt, or made no difference in producing these results.

In the latest release of data, we have a sense of how much progress students show on state assessments from one year to the next (as it's been two years since the last time we had growth data, here's a quick reminder on how it is calculated: a student's performance on the test is compared to her «academic peers» — other students who had the same test score she had the previous year, resulting in the individual's student growth percentile.

Simply put, a data dashboard provides an array of information about school performance and practices, rather than a single number like a test score, to show whether a school is succeeding.

Though White Station students generally score well on tests, data showed students in those grades were the school's poorest performers.

«When you pay attention to social and emotional data, the research shows that test scores increase.

The data, part of the benchmark test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, show that New York City fourth graders have made progress in closing the gap between their scores and the state and national results in reading, despite the higher percentages of poor and minority students in the city.

When asked to assess the success of the interventions, Galvez cited district reports on standardized test scores as evidence of improvement, although he acknowledged that district data shows test scores had been climbing before LAUSD beefed up the intervention program.

Results from the data analyses showed no statistically significant correlation between the overall holistic scores assigned by the AES tool and the overall holistic scores assigned by faculty human raters or human raters who scored another standardized writing test.

Attempting to show that even a well - managed school district can't close achievement gaps in student learning, McRae showed Fraisse data from the state Department of Education showing significant differences in test scores between African - American and Latino students and white students in some of the administrator's former school districts.

For example, one district's state test data showed that eighth - grade math scores steadily improved over three years.

(The data show test scores at all elementary, middle, and high schools for two years.

But new district data released to LA School Report show state test scores at all 226 magnets — both the magnet centers and the standalone schools.

Data from LA Unified's 2011 - 12 state standardized test scores shows the percentage of girls ranked proficient or advanced in science drops from 54 percent in the eighth grade to roughly 27 percent a year later.

Data showing tatistically signifcant improvements in school climate and test scores will be shared.

Much like disaggregating test score data by race and income in the early 2000s revealed inequities in what were generally considered to be good school systems, breaking apart graduation rates by school district shows that even high - performing states have pockets of failure.

Madison school officials corrected an error in data about student scores on reading tests, and that resulted in Sherman meeting the standard for showing improvement over the previous year, said Patrick Gasper, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Critics point to a report released last week showing how school districts in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties ignore objective data like test scores and grades, and they often place black and Latino ninth - graders in math classes below their level.

What Peterson and Kaplan should have done was simply focus on the underlying data, which shows that for most of the past eight years, many states have set proficiency targets and cut scores on state tests that have undermined the goals (and, in some cases, high expectations set by) their old curricula standards.

The city's Department of Education constantly mines test score data for patterns to show where improvement is happening and where it is needed.

Nationally, the data shows that test scores in key subjects like math and reading rose.

Analysis by the DfE and data collected by «GL Assessment», the marketer of CATs tests show large and clear links ethic groups, CATs scores and school attainment.

As this limited data shows, a strong application will usually have SAT Subject Test scores in the 700s.

A state - by - state analysis of NAEP testing data shows that students who miss more school than their peers score lower on the NAEP tests in grades 4 and 8.