Sentences with phrase «test score gains for»

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

I used the appendix provided by Weiland to compute the percentile test score gains for children eligible for a subsidized lunch, versus higher - income children who were ineligible for a subsidized lunch.

The Boston test score gains for pre-K for middle - class sufficient are large enough to easily pass a benefit - cost test.

In a regression to predict student test score gains using out of sample test score gains for the same teacher, student survey results, and classroom observations, there is virtually no relationship between test score gains and either classroom observations or student survey results.

The authors did find that test score gains for lower - scoring students in lower - performing schools resulted in higher earnings for those students.

Based on Chetty and his colleagues» results for how 2nd and 3rd grade test scores affect adult earnings, this test score gain for males would be expected to increase average annual adult earnings at ages 25 to 27 by a little over $ 900 or 5 %.

Not exact matches

Last week, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña released a statement celebrating citywide gains in Advanced Placement test scores for the second year in a row.

People who scored high on standard tests for creativity were also more likely to be willing to cheat for personal gain.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

They scale the gain in black students» scores by the standard deviation of test scores computed for a select sample of students, and observe that the gain in their scores due to attending private school is «roughly one - third of the test - score gap between blacks and whites nationwide.»

The largest gains for the test — the Kentucky Instructional Results System, or KIRIS — came in reading and mathematics, with fewer students scoring at the «novice,» or lowest, level and more students scoring at the «proficient» and «distinguished» levels.

But ever since becoming a federally funded turnaround school in 2010, these meetings have become cherished time for the teachers and, according to Nolan, one of the key reasons their elementary school — once one of the lowest achieving in Boston — has seen significant gains on test scores.

If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

A less narrow concept of school quality (currently limited to short - term gains in test scores alone) is essential to refocus the movement on its ultimate object: setting children on a path for lives of self - sufficiency, upward mobility, and engaged citizenship.

While these schools succeed in generating test - score gains for students of all cognitive abilities, it is still the case that students with strong fluid cognitive skills learn more.

In the school with more teachers, the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classroom.

Another idea for entrepreneurs: build a web site where students or their parents can enter their test scores themselves, and provide a prediction for the types of colleges where they are likely to gain acceptance.

He is currently directing studies that will explore new methods for evaluating gains in scores on high - stakes tests and evaluate the use of value - added models in educational accountability systems.

But gains in precision obtained by increasing the number of students observed will be offset by losses associated with failing to control for baseline test scores.

We measure FCAT performance using developmental - scale scores, which allow us to compare the test - score gains of all the students in our study, even though they took tests designed for different grade levels.

For example, the effect of a one - hour later start time on math scores is roughly 14 percent of the black - white test - score gap, 40 percent of the gap between those eligible and those not eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, and 85 percent of the gain associated with an additional year of parents» educatiFor example, the effect of a one - hour later start time on math scores is roughly 14 percent of the black - white test - score gap, 40 percent of the gap between those eligible and those not eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, and 85 percent of the gain associated with an additional year of parents» educatifor free or reduced - price lunch, and 85 percent of the gain associated with an additional year of parents» education.

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.

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.

The NRC report suggests that demographic changes might account for gains in DC test score performance.

During this same period, high - performing urban charters grew rapidly and produced exceptional gains in test scores and college enrollment rates for black and Latino students.

If we used test scores as a proxy for school or program quality, we would wrongly conclude that this program did not help, since the test score gains faded even though the benefits endured.

The report by the NRC committee claims that gains in test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) between 2007 and 2009 were no better than in the ten other school districts for which comparable data is available.

For example, the article notes the well - known problem of error in test scores and its contribution to «noise» in gain scores.

And then there are some test - score gains, which Rhee is counting on to build public support for her plans and ease the doubts about her style.

This allows for the use of statistical models to estimate the total contribution — that attributable to both observable and unobserved teacher attributes — of teachers toward student test - score gains (often referred to as «value added»).

In addition to dipping into his private fortune for unlimited campaign ads touting his test score gains, he has total control of a $ 15 billion education empire that doles out jobs and no - bid contracts to potential critics and spends millions on a well - oiled public relations machine, but spends nothing on independent research or evaluation of classroom programs.

Thirty - seven percent of the students for whom we observe test - score gains at least once in both sectors attended a traditional public school after they were in a charter school, while the same is true of only 30 percent of all students in charter schools.

Second, exploiting a natural experiment, I show that a fail inspection rating leads to test - score gains for primary school students that remain evident even after the students move into secondary schools.

In the end, our analysis of charter school effectiveness is based on the experiences of only those students for whom we observe annual gains (whether positive or negative) in test scores at least once in a charter school and at least once in a traditional public school.

But other states with large spending increments — New York, Wyoming, and West Virginia, for example — had only marginal test - score gains to show for all that additional expenditure.

A handful of school districts and states — including Dallas, Houston, Denver, New York, and Washington, D.C. — have begun using student achievement gains as indicated by annual test scores (adjusted for prior achievement and other student characteristics) as a direct measure of individual teacher performance.

A study by researchers at the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt finds that teachers who were offered rewards of up to $ 15,000 if their students met goals for test - score gains did not outperform teachers who were not offered the bonuses.

The reports show educators at all levels struggling to implement a dramatic and extremely complex change in federal education policy, which radically alters the role of federal and state governments while imposing unprecedented responsibilities and accountability for test score gains.

They suggest that in a school with more teachers, «the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classroom.»

Under the new rules, private schools with 30 or more FTC scholarship students must release to the public gain scores on standardized tests for those students.

Despite the vast majority of randomized control trials (RCTs) of private school choice showing significant, positive test score effects for at least some subgroups of students, some of those gains have been modest and other effects have been null for at least some subgroups.

It's true that students from those schools who did enroll in post-secondary schooling were more likely to go to a 4 than 2 year college, but it is unclear if this is a desirable outcome given that it may be a mismatch for their needs and this more nuanced effect is not commensurate with the giant test score gains.

For our purposes, what it shows is that short - term test score gains don't lead to long - term test score gains, but they do lead to long - term success.

The study found that test scores for KIPP students have continued to increase, but that gains have not been as rapid as they were in the period before the massive expansion.

Their entire database consists of gains in average scores in math and reading from three specific tests - TAAS, the Texas NAEP, and the national NAEP - for three racial groups.

Second, Rick thinks there is an inconsistency in my suspicion that test - prep and manipulation are largely responsible for test score improvements by Milwaukee choice schools after they were required to take high - stakes tests, while I interpret research from Florida as showing schools made exceptional test score gains when faced with the prospect of having vouchers offered to their students if scores did not improve.

The NEA analysis of the proposed legislation claimed it favored «1) establishing a teacher evaluation system using gains in student test scores; 2) allowing «community stakeholders» to have a role in designing teacher evaluation systems; and 3) providing merit pay for teachers based upon gains in student test scores.»

Provided the movement of teachers in and out of a grade has not changed the makeup of students enrolled in that grade, this finding supports the conclusion that measured value - added of teachers is an unbiased predictor of future test - score gains, as there appears to be no other explanation for the resulting improvement in test scores.