Sentences with phrase «where average student scores»

The same is generally true of math, with the exception of developmental bilingual programs, where average student scores grow more slowly than those of students in English immersion.

Not exact matches

In other words, a student with a 1300 SAT score at a public high school where the average SAT score is 1000 will have an admissions edge over an equal student at a private school where 1300 is the average SAT score.

Leaning too heavily on proficiency rates or average test scores can unfairly target schools, especially those that serve disadvantaged students, for intervention, while ignoring schools where students are learning the least.

We find that online applicants come from colleges where the average student's SAT math score is 30 points or about 0.2 standard deviations lower than students from in - person applicants» colleges.

Where reform critics get it wrong is when they claim that America's average scores are dragged down by the particularly poor performance of low - income students, or that the advantaged kids are doing just fine.That is objectively untrue.

It is also designed to be useful for parents, e.g., sent home at the end of each quarter with the average score for the student for each item indicated, and with notes from the teacher where relevant.

Despite widening gaps between highest - and lowest - scoring students, average scores in reading and mathematics were essentially flat from 2015 to 2017, with the exception of eighth - grade reading scores, where the percentage of proficient students increased by two percentage points.

If charter schools were primarily established in response to dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, they would tend to be located in areas with low - quality traditional public schools where students would tend to make below - average test - score gains.

Students in classrooms where laptop and tablet usage was not restricted earned the lowest scores, on average, at 70.5 percent, a difference of 2.4 percentage points.

When the results were broken down into states and territories, the mean scores were similar, apart from Tasmania, where students performed significantly lower than the OECD average.

The simple correlation between spending per student and average TIMSS test scores is 0.13 in primary school and 0.16 in middle school, on a scale where 1.0 denotes an absolute positive correlation between the two variables and 0 signals no correlation (see figure 2).

The school board decided to require the two - hour reading block at 59 elementary and 12 middle schools where students average scores of 25 or less on the Stanford Achievement Test.

Because of the way tracking was done (splitting the grade into two classes at the median baseline test score), the two students closest to the median within each school were assigned to classes where the average prior achievement of their classmates was very different.

The percent enrolled in a selective college (where the average student had a SAT score of 1100 or better) more than doubled from 3 percent to 7 percent.

Demographic - adjusted average test scores also do a worse job at identifying schools where students learn the least, with the average growth rates of bottom - 15 % schools based on this metric closer to that of the average score measure than the growth - based measure.

Norm - referenced tests are assessments where individual scores are compared to average scores of other students who have taken the same test.

According to the study, the inability to finish the math sections disproportionately affected particular students: those from schools where average scores on the old SAT were categorized as «low» or «medium.»

Now say the same group of students is tested again in 8th grade, where the average score of black students turns out to be 90, versus an average of 100 among white students.

Due to Simpson's Paradox, where the size of the group can mask aggregated data, the scores of white students, black students, and Hispanic students all gained more than the national average.

We can see the relationship between vocabulary and reading achievement clearly in NAEP scores, where the students who had the highest average vocabulary scores were the students performing in the top quarter (above the 75th percentile) of reading comprehension.

These results can be compared to those for New York City, where 24 percent of male Black students and 25 percent of male Hispanic students scored proficient in grade 8 reading, or they can be compared to the statewide averages: 21 percent of male Black students and 24 percent of male Hispanic students reading at the proficient level in eighth grade.

Weaver and Dick (2009) reported that elementary and high school students in schools where the intervention had been fully implemented scored above the state averages on standardized tests in mathematics.

According to AzMERIT scores released this week, charter students scored better than the state average in the ELA and Math assessment in every grade level and subject area except Algebra I, where charter students tied the state average.

New York's students are closer to the national average, but its student scores are roughly where they were in 2003, the year after the city adopted mayoral control.

In a town where 80 % of parents have a college degree and over 50 % a graduate degree — highly atypical for the state at large — something must be going awry at JW if students there are simply meeting average statewide proficiency scores, and lagging in growth.

Likewise, students who attend schools where few students are FRPL - eligible, and whose scores tend, on average, to be higher, were undersampled.

Those where fewer than 35 percent of students score proficient or don't meet state growth averages for three consecutive years will automatically lose their charters.

Eleanor McMain Secondary School English instruction was a high point at McMain, where 60 percent of students scored «Excellent» or «Good,» not far from the 66 - percent statewide average.

These are institutions where the average test scores of incoming students indicate that they admit a wide range of students in terms of academic preparation and achievement.

In every state where K12, Inc. operated virtual schools and public information was readily available (AZ, CO, GA, NV, OH, PA, SC, TX, WA), virtual students» math and reading standardized test scores were significantly behind the state average, according to the report.

That law relies more on absolute comparisons of test scores, so it sometimes seems as if Ben Franklin High School, which accepts only high - achieving students, is measured on the same yardstick as schools in the state - run Recovery School District, where the average student starts well below grade level.

While the new managers of Philadelphia schools will operate with increased freedom from the central school district, they will also face demanding performance standards; under the plan, they can lose their contract for any school where a majority of students fails to reach the average score on state tests after three years.