Sentences with phrase «than the control group students»

Silver CREST students were also 21 % more likely to take a STEM AS level subject than control group students.

Students who received at least 25 hours of math or 34 hours of English Language Arts instruction did better than control group students on tests in fall 2013 and fall 2014.

High - attending students were also rated by teachers as having stronger social and emotional competencies than the control group students; however, researchers have less confidence that this was due to the programs, given the lack of prior data on these competencies.

Results showed that EC students who had at least 35 sessions scored significantly higher than control group students on three of the four outcome measures.

Not exact matches

When researchers randomly assigned some primary school students to perform three acts of kindness each week, those kids became more popular than did children in a control group (Layous et al 2012).

The first group also scored up to 17 percent lower than the control group on multiple - choice tests, evidence that engaging in messaging unrelated to the class hurts student learning.

Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap between racial groups seen at the start of the study.

«But not having a comparison to a control group [of children without ADHD], I'm not sure that's higher or lower than what the student population would be doing.»

Treated students both attempted, and earned, 1.5 more credits (about half a college course) than those in the control group during their first semester.

For example, students randomly assigned to receive a school tour of Crystal Bridges later displayed demonstrably stronger ability to think critically about art than the control group.

These anecdotes are supported by research showing that students who are taught to develop mental imagery of text do better than control groups on tests of comprehension and recall.

The results showed that students who participated in the program performed at significantly higher levels in reading than the students in an experimental control group.

They were controlled by powerful interest groups who cared about things other than student learning.

Students assigned by lottery to see A Christmas Carol or Hamlet scored significantly higher on our tolerance measure than did the control - group sStudents assigned by lottery to see A Christmas Carol or Hamlet scored significantly higher on our tolerance measure than did the control - group studentsstudents.

In the earlier study, students who toured an art museum expressed significantly stronger interest in future museum attendance and actually returned to the museum at higher rates than did the control group.

Twenty years after students participated in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new study's author, matched Fast Track participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those in the intervention group voted at a rate 11 to 14 percentage points higher than their peers in the control group, a significant boost considering that get - out - the - vote programs typically boost turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

What's more, students who were eligible for free school meals and took part in a CREST Silver Award were 38 per cent more likely to take a STEM subject at AS Level than the matched control group.

Even the control - group students did much better than chance in picking the correct answer out of four multiple - choice options for each question.

The CTBA report ignores entirely previous research from the Brookings Institution, a random - assignment study — the gold standard of social science research — that found voucher students in Milwaukee scored six Normal Curve Equivalent points higher than the control group in reading and 11 points higher in math.

However, the study found that students who received the opportunity to attend a career academy earned 11 percent more than the control group.

The smallest differences after two years were observed in New York City, where the combined test scores of African - American students attending private schools were 4.3 percentile points higher than those of the control group.

Moreover, students offered vouchers graduated at a rate 12 percentage points higher than the control group, 82 percent to 70 percent respectively.

On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portion.

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.»

-- After two years, African - American voucher students had combined reading and math scores 6.5 percentile points higher than the control group.

Black students who attended D.C. private schools for two years scored 9.0 percentile points higher on the two tests combined than did students in the control group.

-- After one year, voucher students had reading scores 8 percentile points higher than the control group and math scores 7 points higher.

After one year, black students who switched to private schools scored 0.17 standard deviations higher than the students in the control group.

The program also resulted in FAFSA applications being filed significantly earlier than those in the control group: over one month earlier for high school students and almost three months earlier for independent students.

One experimental study in 2014 by Anne Gregory and colleagues found that teachers in the MTP program suspended students less often than teachers in the control group, and when suspensions did occur, MTP teachers had equal suspension rates for African American and white students.

The research team found that, in these circumstances, students were very positively disposed to the learning but actually did not show stronger learning outcomes than the control group that enjoyed none of the levity.

The students taking the course online did substantially better on assessments of algebra knowledge at the end of eighth grade, scoring 0.4 standard deviations higher than students in the control group.

Findings: Dayton, OH — After two years, African American voucher students had combined reading and math scores 6.5 percentile points higher than the control group.

Findings: New York, NY — Using alternative methods, this study confirms the 2003 finding that, after one year, voucher students had math scores 5 percentile points higher than the control group.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education found that students who were offered a voucher in the Washington, D.C., voucher lottery graduated high school at a rate 12 percentage points higher than students in the control group.

The graduation rate among students who actually used the voucher was 21 percentage points higher than that of the control group.

The results, published in 2007 in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, showed that the storytelling students scored significantly better on vocabulary and reading «readiness» tests than the control group.

Findings: New York, NY — African American and Hispanic students offered vouchers to attend private elementary schools in 1997 attended college within five years of expected high school graduation at a rate 4 percentage points higher than the control group and obtained a bachelor's degree at a rate 2.7 percentage points higher than the control group's rate (11.7 percent vs. 9.0 percent, respectively).

Students who used their vouchers had graduation rates that were 21 percentage points higher than control - group sStudents who used their vouchers had graduation rates that were 21 percentage points higher than control - group studentsstudents.

Findings: New York, NY — After one year, voucher students had math scores 5 percentile points higher than the control group.

Students from low - performing public schools who received and used scholarships graduated at a rate 20 percent higher than the control group.

Most recently, multiple analyses of the New York City Choice Scholarships Foundation program found that students who received scholarships as a result of a lottery had math scores that were five percentage points higher on average than the control group.

Findings: New York, NY — After three years, African American voucher students had combined reading and math scores 9 percentile points higher than the control group.

Findings: Charlotte, NC — After one year, voucher students had reading scores 8 percentile points higher than the control group and math scores 7 points higher.

Teske and Schneider note that the existing empirical work on school vouchers is quite positive on a variety of issues: academic considerations appear paramount when parents choose schools; voucher recipients are more satisfied with their schools than their peers within public schools; and vouchers lead to «clear performance gains for some groups of students using the vouchers, particularly blacks, compared with the control group.»

In addition, many of the TFA teachers were actually more prepared than over half in the novice control group: «All TFA teachers had at least 4 weeks of student teaching, while many of the control teachers (and over half the novice control teachers) had no student teaching experience at all.»

For example, in Baltimore, 77 % of community school students in grades 6 to 8 were less likely to be chronically absent than a control group.

Results of a randomized control trial demonstrated that male students who participated in the program during Grade 9 were significantly more likely to graduate from high school within 4 years than male students in the control group (81 % vs. 63 %).

Magnolia's study revealed that Achieve3000 users did significantly better over the course of the school year and performed better than students in the control group on the GMRT - 4.