Sentences with phrase «with average student scores»

Johanson et al. (2001) used comparison groups of mathematics and science students to look at student attitudes towards these subject areas; Shanahan et al. (2006) compared results on state tests in mathematics of students of teacher leaders with average student scores at the district and state levels.

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A comprehensive guide to Canada's 39 MBA school with data on average GMAT score, total enrolment, total number of faculty, percentage of female students, percentage of international students, standard degree length and tuition fees.

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.

Students in 4th - 6th grade who went to bed an average of 30 - 40 minutes earlier improved in memory, motor speed, attention, and other abilities associated with math and reading test scores.

The average ACT score in 2001 was 23.3, with 86 percent of students tested.

Syracuse students» test scores were also low, with 10.4 percent of students» scores in third - through eighth - grade being rated «proficient» versus the state's 39.1 percent average.

According to Read to Succeed Executive Director Anne Ryan, students who miss 10 percent of kindergarten and first grade scored an average of 60 points below similar students with good attendance on third grade reading tests.

Millennium, which offers preference to students who live below Houston Street, admits only those with A averages, good attendance and top test scores.

With that caveat in mind, students in the biological sciences appear to be faring more poorly than those in the physical sciences and engineering: Their average depression score is slightly higher, and their career optimism score is lower (4.1 versus 4.7).

In science, U.S. students tied for 23rd place, with a score of 502 that matches the OECD average of 501.

«And a student with the most helpful personality will score a full grade higher than an average student in this regard.»

Another candidate stressed the core value of «relentless pursuit of results» by saying he «demonstrated impressive results as a classroom teacher, with his students tripling the average state science scores expected.»

With the exception of Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, the lowest ranked Italian school, coming in 44th and 24th place in BoF's BA and MA rankings respectively, the careers departments of the Italian schools scored above average, with students praising their access to quality recruiters and effective careers serviWith the exception of Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, the lowest ranked Italian school, coming in 44th and 24th place in BoF's BA and MA rankings respectively, the careers departments of the Italian schools scored above average, with students praising their access to quality recruiters and effective careers serviwith students praising their access to quality recruiters and effective careers services.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

NCLB required that states test students in math and reading each year, that average student performance be publicized for every school, and that schools with persistently low test scores face an escalating series of sanctions.

The survey found mental disorders affected one in seven students in the previous 12 months and students with mental disorders scored lower on average than students without mental disorders in every test domain and year level.

It could also average those outcomes from the current school year with those of the previous year or two: for example, scores of third - grade Hispanic students in spring 2017 averaged with those of third - grade Hispanic students in spring 2016, or 2016 and 2015.

As can be seen in Figure 1a, states with higher percentages of students from low - income families report lower average scale scores in 8th - grade math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Students with multiple teachers scored, on average, slightly lower in both math and reading relative to students with one Students with multiple teachers scored, on average, slightly lower in both math and reading relative to students with one students with one teacher.

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)

To identify the policy's average impact, we compared the gains in developmental - scale scores made by students who first entered 3rd grade in 2002 and scored below the FCAT benchmark with gains made by students who first entered 3rd grade in 2001 and scored below the FCAT benchmark.

Students with increased NAPLAN scores are more skewed towards subjects such as interest in science, law, engineering, architecture, social work and arts, and students who consider their academic performance to be above average are more likely to choose medicine, a study of 6492 students from years 3 to 12 across 64 NSW public schools haStudents with increased NAPLAN scores are more skewed towards subjects such as interest in science, law, engineering, architecture, social work and arts, and students who consider their academic performance to be above average are more likely to choose medicine, a study of 6492 students from years 3 to 12 across 64 NSW public schools hastudents who consider their academic performance to be above average are more likely to choose medicine, a study of 6492 students from years 3 to 12 across 64 NSW public schools hastudents from years 3 to 12 across 64 NSW public schools has found.

Based on a randomized controlled trial with 78 secondary school teachers and 2,237 students, MTP - S improved student achievement test scores in the year following its completion, equivalent to moving the average student from the 50th to the 59th percentile.

The matrix converts scores on standardized tests — the Stanford Achievement Test for English - speaking students and the Aprenda exam for Spanish - speaking students with limited English proficiency — scores on the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT), average course grades, teacher recommendations, and indicators for socioeconomic status into an overall index score.

The effect is largest for students with below - average test scores, suggesting that later start times would narrow gaps in student achievement.

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.

Students who scored in the top quarter of the sixth - grade math exam averaged anywhere from 19 to 26 on the high school ACT math test; the variations correlated with the effectiveness scores of their high school math teachers.

Moreover, if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of low performers in countries with average test scores similar to the United States.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the opposite phenomenon occurred: students switching from traditional public to charter schools appear to have been above - average performers compared with the other students in their school.

Compared with the average white student, the average black student scored 3.6 points lower; the average Hispanic student, 2.9 points lower; the average Asian student, 0.7 points higher; and the average Native American student, 1.5 points lower.

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.

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.

Even with a sparse growth model such as SGPs, a student who is eligible for the free lunch program is likely to have a lower growth «target» than a non-eligible student because, on average, students who are eligible for the free lunch program also have lower prior exam scores.

With respect to students and test scores, reversion to the mean suggests that students with scores in the upper or lower tail of the test - score distribution are likely to perform closer to the average when tested more than oWith respect to students and test scores, reversion to the mean suggests that students with scores in the upper or lower tail of the test - score distribution are likely to perform closer to the average when tested more than owith scores in the upper or lower tail of the test - score distribution are likely to perform closer to the average when tested more than once.

By comparing each student's gain to gains among students who performed at a similar level and would have experienced a similar, natural shift toward the average score, I can better separate legitimate test - score gains and losses from change associated with mean reversion.

We estimate that an 8th grader who attends school with 200 other 8th - grade students will score 0.04 standard deviations lower in both math and English than he would if he attended a school with 75 other 8th graders, the average cohort size for a K — 8 school.

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 Catholic and secular private schools have higher tolerance scores than students in assigned public schools, averaging 1.6 and 1.8 tolerant responses respectively, compared with 1.4 tolerant responses among assigned public school sStudents in Catholic and secular private schools have higher tolerance scores than students in assigned public schools, averaging 1.6 and 1.8 tolerant responses respectively, compared with 1.4 tolerant responses among assigned public school sstudents in assigned public schools, averaging 1.6 and 1.8 tolerant responses respectively, compared with 1.4 tolerant responses among assigned public school studentsstudents.

A gain score of zero indicates that a student has kept pace with the average student in the state, while a student with a gain score of 0.25 standard deviations will have improved his or her performance by enough to exceed roughly 10 percent of the state's students.

When it comes to acquiring more advanced skills, however, the situation is reversed: The average student's scores increase 32 percentile points with multimodal interactive lessons, compared with 20 points with noninteractive lessons.

When learning basic skills, the average student's scores increase with multimodal learning.

«For example, how do your students» NAPLAN longitudinal scores improve in comparison with the Australian average?

These schools also have fewer black students than the statewide average, with 15.7 percent black students versus 24.9 percent statewide for students with third grade test scores.

Students scored 54 points better in math and 57 in science (on a range with an international average of 500 and an international standard deviation of 100) when they had more than 200 books at home compared with students who had fewer Students scored 54 points better in math and 57 in science (on a range with an international average of 500 and an international standard deviation of 100) when they had more than 200 books at home compared with students who had fewer students who had fewer than 10.

Students in the schools in this sample are more likely to have married parents (70.7 percent versus 61.7 percent statewide with third grade test scores), less likely to have fathers absent at the time of birth (9.8 percent versus 15.2 percent statewide), less likely to have Medicaid - funded births (a proxy for poverty at the time of birth, 37.7 percent versus 48.8 percent statewide), and have relatively better educated mothers (13.1 years of maternal education at the time of the child's birth, versus 12.5 years on average statewide).

Standardized test scores for these schools are high compared to the national average and very high compared to schools with similar students.

States with sparser eighth grade tracking and a below average proportion of high - scoring AP students include: Delaware (64 percent tracked), District of Columbia (63 percent), Louisiana (54 percent), Mississippi (52 percent), and Texas (57 percent).

On average, students in countries with performance - related pay score 24.8 percent of a standard deviation higher on the PISA math test; in reading the effect is 24.3 percent of a standard deviation; and in science it is 15.4 percent (see Figure 1).

Then ~ I tell the students that I will tear a small piece of poster up everytime they collectively score a 90 percent or better on a test (the CPS remote system I use provides me with a quick class average).

The Tucson charter school outscored all 40 countries that administered the 2012 PISA, or Programme for International Student Assessment exams, with a mean math score of 618, 131 points above the U.S. average.