Sentences with phrase «year achievement distribution»

Using a ten - year student - level panel dataset from North Carolina, we examine how school - specific pressure related to two school accountability approaches (status and growth) affects student achievement at different points in the prior - year achievement distribution.

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The achievement distribution makes another leap forward the following year (2004), which was the first year that began with a sizable number of retained students due to implementation of the policy.

Although we found substantial drops in achievement during middle school for both groups of students, the first - year drop and cumulative deficit were, respectively, 50 percent and more than 200 percent greater for students who start at the lower end of the achievement distribution.

Thus, evidence from the NAEP indicates improvement over the last 10 to 15 years in reading and mathematics achievement among students entering high school at the bottom of the skill distribution.

Since it may take a couple of years for states and districts to follow the department's urging and set up systems that will allow them to measure teacher effectiveness based on growth in student achievement, she said, states should be required to show that they are making good on the language about equitable distribution of teachers that's already in the No Child Left Behind Act.

In both studies, the gender gap developed early at the top of the achievement distribution and spread throughout during the first few years of elementary school.

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