Sentences with phrase «test score gains»

I do see problems with judging teachers solely on test score gains in reading and math, but we've got to start somewhere.

But the report shows that they are predictive of test score gains.

Given enough time, school choice programs create small, positive test score gains for participating students.

In the state's annual reports on test score gains, the researcher has repeatedly taken note of the lower average income for scholarship students.

By creating this framework where we were using test score gains to validate practice - based measures, we were at least creating a common base for discussion.

What's more, significantly improved predictive power from a mixture of classroom observations with test score gains could have made the case for why we need both.

What explains this disconnect between math and reading test score gains and later - life outcomes?

All schools with at least 30 students in grades 3 — 10 in two or more consecutive years will have standardized test score gains analyzed by state researchers.

It's time that people start paying a lot more attention to this pattern of a disconnect between short term test score gains and long term life outcomes.

How many schools will be able to spend $ 15 million to get increased attendance and modest test score gains?

Second, the pattern of results in that paper supports my argument about the disconnect between test score gain and changes in later - life outcomes.

But the estimated future adult earnings gains based on percentile test score gains at kindergarten entrance are also large.

In four studies, charter school programs that produce impressive test score gains appear to yield no or little improvement in educational attainment.

Conversely, if students are far behind, they can have giant test score gains, but not jump over the proficiency threshold.

But the study does suggest that classrooms that produce test score gains also produce valuable long - term outcomes.

The researchers found, for example, that a school with improvements in school climate and violence in one time period tended not to see test score gains in a subsequent time period.

However, schools that posted test score gains in one period were very likely to show climate and violence improvements in future periods.

These effects may show similar levels of variation across the teacher workforce and are not significantly correlated with value - added test score gains.

The effects of minimum - competency exams on achievement in 8th grade and test score gains during high school were small and often not statistically significant.

After four years at the charter school, eighth - graders showed average test score gains in math equal to an additional year and a half of school, compared with district students.

If inferior test score gains by charter schools is the heart of the piece, you would think that the article would present evidence supporting that claim.

The district posted big test score gains this year, but it's unclear if it will ever reach its original goal.

But let's say you don't believe me about the weak predictive power of test score gains and are determined to use tests as the main indicator of school quality.

An ongoing argument raging across the country over whether student test score gains are a fair way to gauge a teacher's skill has hit the courts.

One major piece of recent research found that using test score gains to determine which schools were to be rewarded and which were to be sanctioned was similar to a lottery.

I've written previously about the disconnect between near - term test score gains and changes in later life outcomes.

The impacts of school choice programs on test score gains and longer term outcomes are not really as out of sync as they may first appear.

Indeed, researchers using this value - added measure approach have sometimes found low - income schools have a high number of teachers who teach students with below - average test score gains.

The school, one of the first three charter schools to open in Indianapolis, has been earned praise for more than a decade for demonstrating large test score gains with disadvantaged students.

Instead, researchers such as David Grissmer of RAND have found that the reductions in class size that took place nationally in the 1970s and 1980s might account for part or most of the substantial test score gains among poor and minority students — and the narrowing of the achievement gap that took place over the this period.

Three elementary schools in Dubuque, Iowa, showed significant test score gains after incorporating the Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) program.

Rigorous evaluations, like the one in Boston, show huge test score gains for students randomly assigned to no - excuses charter schools.

LOS ANGELES — Robin Wynne Davis was taken aback last year when the state test score gains of her third - grade students at Melrose Elementary School labeled her a less - than - stellar teacher.

By design, SGP models do not purport to provide causal estimates of teacher effectiveness (though this does not necessarily imply that they are less accurate measures); they are intended as a descriptive measure of what is — of test score gains relative to other students who scored similarly in the past.»

Rothman explained that you can have a big jump in proficiency with only a small test score gain if there are lot of students close to the proficiency cut point.

Jay accuses the foundation of failing to disclose the limited power of classroom observation scores in predicting future test score gains over and above what one would predict based on value - added scores alone.

When Sara Neufeld wrote in The Hechinger Report last year that Newark's Quitman Street Renew School had the greatest test score gains in reading of all 45 elementary and middle schools in Newark the prior spring, we at Education Elements saw it as triumph.

Or, put another way, if teachers were generating high test score gains from their students by creating a climate of abject fear in their classrooms, their observation scores should be low and that information is useful.

Meanwhile, whites and Hispanics are growing populations in the city and their smaller test score gains are proportionally accounting for more.

«The most recent estimates, which include about 95 percent of the city's charter school enrollment, found test score gains of about one - third of a standard deviation per year of attendance in math and 20 percent of a standard deviation for reading at the middle school level.

They will note that the prior RCT of DC vouchers showed significant test score gains after three years (although the p value rose to.06 in year four even as the positive estimate remained).

Test score gains tell us something useful.

Laura Du's empirical paper, «The Potential of K - 12 Blended Learning: Preliminary Evidence From California Schools,» found that these schools produced significantly higher test score gains than traditional schools who serve a similar demographic.

Secretary John King will be tasked with carrying out the new federal education policy, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which eliminates the «Adequate Yearly Progress» annual test score gain requirement.

MET could have allayed those concerns by telling teachers that test score gains produce information that is generally similar to what is learned from well - conducted classroom observations, so there is no reason to oppose one and support the other.

But we should remember that 42 % of that control group are in the types of charter schools that other research has shown can produce giant test score gains without yielding much in later life outcomes.