Evaluating the Relationships Between Poverty and School Performance interactive data visualization gallery¶
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Evidence · 9 claims (8 for, 1 mixed) · 2 studies (2 associational),q2· 0 of 2 report an effect size · 9 claims rest on one study
Description¶
An interactive data-visualization gallery released and operated by NWEA Research to let users explore relationships between school poverty, achievement, and growth in the report's sample.
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Claims¶
- Heavy weighting of achievement data in U.S. school evaluation clouds how much learning is actually occurring, particularly in high-poverty communities [+W]
- Growth measures offer a clearer, more accurate picture of learning than achievement data, while achievement data remains critical for tracking student progress [+W]
- School poverty is only weakly associated with median student growth in a school [+W]
- Sixty percent of the highest-poverty schools also have above-average student growth [+W]
- School poverty (%FRL) accounts for about 50% of a school's median student achievement [+W]
- Lowest-income schools show more variable growth than highest-income schools, with more schools both below the 50th and above the 82nd growth percentile [+W]
- About 46% of the lowest 5% achieving schools show the same growth as the highest 5% achieving schools [+W]
- Growth of schools selected by fall achievement differs by subject: bottom 5% math schools tended to grow worse, while reading showed similar average growth [+W]
- School median student growth percentiles correlate with student disadvantage [~W]
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Key Sources¶
- Andrew Hegedus. (2018). Evaluating the Relationships Between Poverty and School Performance. NWEA Research. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/evaluating-the-relationships-between-poverty-and-school-performance/
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Evaluating the Relationships Between Poverty and School Performance interactive data visualization gallery |
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An interactive data-visualization gallery released and operated by NWEA Research to let users explore relationships between school poverty, achievement, and growth in the report's sample. |
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