Sentence examples for declines in achievement from inspiring English sources

Students who participated in the voucher program had declines in achievement tests scores of eight to 16 percentile points.

With children becoming computer-literate at increasingly younger ages, Hofferth said, she set out to learn whether screen time leaves children more isolated and withdrawn and whether it leads to declines in achievement because it replaces time spent that could be spent studying, reading, taking part in sports and playing outdoors.

The steeper declines in achievement on standardized tests for Non-Hispanic whites with increasing B-Pbs compared to Non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics was an unexpected finding.

Still, "the reduction wasn't associated with a decline in achievement, and that was a surprise," Hofferth said.

However, the decline in achievement is smaller or virtually zero when considering those marks set by teachers, suggesting an increasing importance of grade inflation.

In contrast, some demographic changes were identified as potentially contributing to the decline in achievement.

First, we examine possible direct explanations for the decline in achievement scores: the implementation of PISA in Ireland (e.g. sampling, test administration), and changes in the demographic characteristics of the cohort of students who participated.

It may be that these schools existed in the system in 2000, but were not sampled due to chance, or that demographic and socioeconomic characteristics and very low engagement of students in these schools on the print assessment contributed to some of the decline in achievement in Ireland in 2009.

Some education reformers believe that these four disciplines are taking a hit in our public education system and explain the decline in achievement test scores among U.S. students compared to their peers worldwide.

In both 1983 and 2016, the so-called evidence for decline in achievement -- graduation rates, SAT scores, other standardized test scores, international tests like the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) -- are actually evidence for the rending of America's social fabric.

They may also need to introduce a system of monitoring achievement in areas where indicators have been removed, as Kaiser Permanente Northern California has, and perhaps decide a priori the level of decline in achievement that could trigger a review and possible reintroduction.