Sentences with phrase «very low test scores»

«If a subgroup has very low test scores, they have met half the requirement for assistance.»

It is also less accurate, because of the very low test scores earned by many students with disabilities.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

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Haney and others have concluded that this policy change artificially drove up 4th - grade test scores, because it removed from the cohort of students tested those who were retained in 3rd grade, the very students most likely to score the lowest on standardized tests.

Sommers notes that in intelligence tests, the normal distribution for boys spreads out wider at the tails than for girls — more scores at very high and very low levels, which is consistent with what President Summers was suggesting.

No one should be surprised that NACSA's criteria have no relationship to their own metric for school quality — test score growth — given how well Arizona charter schools appear to be doing even while NACSA gives the state a very low score for charter quality.

But then again, why would the NPR blogger paraphrase the president of a local district's teachers union who asserts that, despite low test scores, «their parents are happy» and then not ask parents like Salvador Ramirez and Jennifer Perez who have very publicly expressed their unhappiness with that district in their local paper of record?

For example, voters from precincts with lower test scores might respond more strongly when test scores improve than do voters from precincts with test scores that already were very high.

For the very same reason, small schools are also overrepresented among those with extremely low test scores.

In 2007, Hidalgo Early College High School created the Success Initiative Academy for students who continually scored low on the yearly Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test, providing separate teachers and very small classes for these students most at risk for dropping out.

The authors of the funding study report that the school finance reforms they studied actually did not reduce socio - economic and racial gaps in test scores because low - income and minority students are not very concentrated in the districts that enjoyed spending increases.

That's perhaps a clue that even if you could magically get low - income children in other countries to do as much homework as their high - income peers, as the OECD researchers are suggesting, you might not raise their PISA test scores very much.

There is always a big hullabaloo when American students score average on international tests, but the fact is that American kids in very low - poverty schools score as high or higher than anybody else on the planet.

These schools generally enroll students from very poor families, have hard - working but dispirited teachers, have safety problems, and as a result, have had unacceptably low test scores and graduation rates for years.

If you look at the page to which I linked, you'll see that elementary teacher candidates, in particular, had very low achievement test scores.

We in CT have some very wealthy areas where students score extremely high on tests - higher than students in many other states - which creates a wider gap between low poverty and high poverty students.

As the numbers of students scoring in the very high ranges of APTS were, naturally, significantly smaller than those scoring in the mid and low ranges, the sample size was expanded by the inclusion of highly gifted students who had been tested at GERRIC's clinic, which specializes in the assessment of intellectually gifted children and adolescents.

Seven years after Paul Vallas and the «education reformers» successfully destroyed the public education system in New Orleans and replaced it with charter schools, the average score for the standardized test known as ACT stands at 16.8, placing it among the very lowest cities in the nation.

The reason we in the US can not fire our way to the high test scores in Finland is because Finland has a very low child poverty rate — which is why their students have such high test scores.

If a test does not contain a wide range of items, it will artificially limit the scores of very low and very high - performing students.

A majority (59 %) also say they are very concerned that students in lower - income areas are less likely than other students to be ready for college when they finish high school, and half (51 %) say they are very concerned that English Learners score lower on standardized tests than other students.

Most standard tests are designed to provide accurate scores for students near proficiency; because there are not enough items measuring performance at the lower end of the scale, the tests may provide very limited information about students who score substantially below average.

And I've walked into lower - income schools around the country where test scores are posted right in the front entryway and the message is very clear: That we care about you as a person and everything, but what really matters is the score that you post in April.

Z.E.C.A., located in Jacksonville, is experiencing a significant financial crisis that prompted CSAB chair Quigley to call their situation «a perfect storm» after considering the school's very poor test scores and low student enrollment numbers along with their financial issues.

Thirdly, Mr. Murray, who graduated in 1992, my gut feeling is that if your Class of 92 took the test that these students are taking your class of 92 would have scored very low.

Victory Prep (Commerce City)- has some of the highest overall SAT scores for any high school in Colorado and does very well by low - income and Latinx students with state and college readiness tests.

It's generally true that schools consider a wide range of factors in admission, and standardized - test scores become more important if they are very low or if schools have other reservations or considerations about the student.

Kane's research was, of course, used to support the claim that bad teachers are causing the disparities that he cited, regardless of the fact the inverse could be also, equally, or even more true — that the value - added measures used to measure teacher effectiveness in these schools are biased by the very nature of the students in these schools that are contributing their low test scores to such estimates.

The Nissan Frontier scored a very low «Marginal» on its small frontal overlap test.

The Surface Pro 3 scored very slightly higher (2,699) than the Pro 4 on this test, which is likely due to its lower - resolution display.

But the likelihood that anyone who picked a «wrong» answer did so for the reason that a very smart person would is very very low; the answers scored «correct» were the ones that in fact were ones the likelihood of selecting increased in proportion to how many other correct answers a test taker got.

Its image quality scores are impressive across the board, but it is particularly strong in providing a very high level of detail from its 12.3 MP camera, with relatively low levels of noise for every tested lighting condition.

While I didn't include benchmark scores for my OnePlus 5 review due to some shady practices regarding inflated numbers, I ran them for the 5T, and the results were as expected: PC Mark's Work 2.0 test regularly returned scores around 7,000, slightly lower than the Pixel 2 XL's but still very impressive.

«Its image quality scores are impressive across the board, but it is particularly strong in providing a very high level of detail from its 12.3 MP camera, with relatively low levels of noise for every tested lighting condition,» DxOMark said.

The color accuracy is near perfect, too, as the iPad Pro's screen scored a very low 0.2 (0 is perfect) on the Delta - E test.

The industry standard reveals that the U11 recorded impressive scores during all tests, thanks to its very low noise and fast autofocus features.

It scores a very low 1,758 Multi-Core on GeekBench 3 — the Snapdragon 810 in the OnePlus manages 4,558 on the same test, and even the P8 doubles this score.

Although the mean PPVT - R scores were very low, correlational analyses indicated that this test was valid for this sample in relation to maternal education, ego maturity, depression, and the HOME.49 The mean for the total HOME scores was similar to other lower SES samples assessed at 12 months in North Carolina, Texas, and Arkansas.50 Although the majority (80.2 %) of the women were classified as minimally (scores of 0 — 9) or mildly (10 — 16) depressed, 17.5 % were moderately depressed (17 — 29), and 2.0 % severely depressed (30 or higher), proportions comparable to the incidence of depression in the control group of another low SES sample.51

RESULTS: Combined effect sizes show that very preterm and / or VLBW children score 0.60 SD lower on mathematics tests, 0.48 SD on reading tests, and 0.76 SD on spelling tests than term - born peers.

I challenge Kohn to show me the data that backs up his wild generalization that test scores from «very talented, hardworking students» are often lower than those of «some superb test takers [who] tend to think superficially.»