Sentences with phrase «test score performance»

The Academic Performance Index (API) is an annual measure of test score performance of schools and districts.

We know the greatest predictors of standardized test score performance are poverty, language barriers and special education needs.

There is a gap in test score performance between students who score high on this index and students who score relatively low on it in every country in the world.

For example, for older teens, 16 — 18 years old, sleeping 7 hours is not much different than sleeping 9 hours in terms of predicted test score performance.

In fact, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers promotes «default closure» policies that automatically close schools based on low test score performance.

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

There are, of course, several other plausible explanations for why South Carolinians voted based on test score performance in 2000 but not in 2002 and 2004.

For instance, Weingarten may be right that for - profit status is enough to cripple a school's instructional acuity... or it may be that for - profits focus more on what their families value than on reading and math scores (families tend to rank test score performance pretty low among the things they value).

Finally, we evaluate the degree to which differences in relative test score performance (or growth) of high - SES versus low - SES students are largely occurring within school districts or across school districts.

They found that the «strongest association between failure to make AYP and subsequent test score performance occurs among those schools not yet exposed to any actual sanctions.»

It takes all of two minutes to scan Zillow or Great Schools to get a quick read on the absolute test score performance of any school in the state.

These report cards include information that private schools receiving public money ought to provide in order to be transparent and accountable to taxpayers — things like average class sizes, teacher qualifications, school safety, access to technology, and how the school's test score performance compares against district and state averages.

Change from 2011 - 2012 to 2012 - 2013: +26 Comparing the API Growth to the Base shows whether or not this school's test score performance improved between Spring 2011 and Spring 2012.

Their conclusion, as reported by the Brookings Institute, was that «Having a top - quartile teacher rather than a bottom - quartile teacher four years in a row could be enough to close the black - white test score performance.»

This is because nearly all of the variability in test score performance lies in the demographic differences among the students.»

We examine trends in the mix of students enrolled in charter schools, the racial imbalance of charter schools, the quality of the match between parental preferences in charter schools relative to the quality of match in traditional public schools, and the distribution of test score performance across charter schools relative those in traditional public schools serving similar students over time.

This paper is one of the first to estimate the effects of features of teachers» preparation on teachers» value - added to student test score performance in Math and English Language Arts.

Jacob Werblow, an assistant professor of Educational Leadership at Central Connecticut State University and Harber Fellow of Education at Wesleyan University, said «Differences in average standardized test score performance have little to do with teacher or school quality.

When we see low test score performance we are often misdiagnosing the problem as poor content instruction when it may in fact be insufficient development of student character skills.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

1) There are large gaps in test score performance in the United States before students enter kindergarten.

Were Louisiana's private school voucher program considered a school system for purposes of analysis, it would have ranked number 9 out of 71 districts across the state in 2015 for annual improvement in the district performance score system — inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics — used by the state to gauge overall district performance.

They talk about children's test score performance in relation to being prepared for «further studies» and «the next grade level,» but they don't say a word about college and career — or help parents (particularly those who haven't graduated from college themselves) parse the meaning and implications of «further studies».

Like many a critic of No Child Left Behind, I do not believe that test score performance is what really counts.

Using the NLSLSASD's standardized testing results by subgroup, the analysis illuminates the potential role of school isolation in student test score performance.1

We first subtracted from each student's test score performance the child's demonstrated knowledge the previous year.We then adjusted those one - year - gain scores to take into account a statistical property that artificially generates larger gains for initially low - performing students (and smaller gains for high performers).

We found large benefits to the test score performance of African Americans but not for those from other backgrounds.

In the US, variations in school quality seem to explain no more than 33 % of the discrepancies in test score performance; this number, which has been around since 1966, considers the influence of a student's classmates to be a school - based factor (it arguably isn't) and thus seems to be a conservative upper bound.