Sentences with phrase «higher sum scores»

After recoding of some items, higher summed scores across the 16 content items reflect greater loneliness.

Not exact matches

In sum, we measured 10 areas that are predictive of high - performing cultures and combined the below scores with the employee Net Promoter Score to create a cumulative CultureIQ Score (CIQ), which is what determined the ranking.

New charts introduced in this quarter's report show that $ 33 billion of this sum was originated by borrowers with credit scores below 620, near the 10 - year high.

To sum up: 1) low - stakes tests appear to measure something meaningful that shows up in long - run outcomes; 2) we don't know nearly as much about high - stakes exams and long - run outcomes; and 3) there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between test - score gain and other measures of quality at either the teacher or school level.

In sum, although there may be some migration by high - performing students to APIP schools, schools that adopt APIP see better scores on college entrance exams among students who have always attended their school.

To sum up, our evidence confirms that the students of high - VA teachers benefit not just by scoring higher on math and reading tests at the end of the school year, but also through improved outcomes later in life.

On this note, and «[i] n sum, recent research on value added tells us that, by using data from student perceptions, classroom observations, and test score growth, we can obtain credible evidence [albeit weakly related evidence, referring to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's MET studies] of the relative effectiveness of a set of teachers who teach similar kids [emphasis added] under similar conditions [emphasis added]... [Although] if a district administrator uses data like that collected in MET, we can anticipate that an attempt to classify teachers for personnel decisions will be characterized by intolerably high error rates [emphasis added].

In sum The Fusion Hybrid's class - leading fuel economy and competent road manners earned it a high performance score.

If you have a good credit score and a spotless credit history, you will probably be able to obtain high loan sums, but if this is not your case, the funds will be limited.

To sum it up, we can debate if the weight for credit utilization should be higher or lower but unfortunately as others have pointed out, these scores are meant to help lenders not consumers.

Now sum those scores, and rank accordingly — I'm confident the highest scoring companies will offer a v interesting & rewarding property portfolio / allocation.

The higher your credit score, the more lenders will view you as creditworthy — allowing you to borrow large sums at the best possible interest rates.

Lenders are often more willing to lend higher sums to consumers if the loan is secured by collateral because they have something tangible to repossess or foreclose on if the borrower defaults, according to Andrew Chan, a financial adviser at Locker Financial Services, LLC in Little Falls, N.J. Because this is a lower risk for lenders, they may also be more willing to forgive lower credit scores.

Too many consumers have lost large sums of money and wound up with higher debt and lower credit scores after working with a debt settlement company.

The responses were summed, for a possible range of 0 — 6 (higher scores = stronger pet bonding; Cronbach's alpha =.41).

In addition, players will compete to achieve the greatest Pro Score ranking, which is the sum of a player's high score across all tables, and a Team Score which is the sum of a player's score and friends sScore ranking, which is the sum of a player's high score across all tables, and a Team Score which is the sum of a player's score and friends sscore across all tables, and a Team Score which is the sum of a player's score and friends sScore which is the sum of a player's score and friends sscore and friends scorescore.

Four scores can be computed from the CHS: (1) total number of events that occurred; (2) number of neutral events that occurred (i.e., event occurred but did not bother child); (3) number of negative events that occurred; and (4) sum of the negative events» rating of bother (possible range = 1 to 86, with higher scores indicating greater number and severity of hassles).

Depressive symptoms during the week preceding the interview were measured with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS).26 The 10 - item questionnaire was summed to a continuous score where higher scores indicated greater frequency of depressive symptoms.

Responses were summed to arrive at a total ITSC score; a higher score indicates greater self - regulation difficulties.

The Kessler - 10 scale (K - 10) was used to measure non-specific psychological distress during the month preceding the interview.27 A continuous K - 10 score was calculated by summing individual - item responses such that a higher score indicated greater frequency of symptoms of psychological distress.

AUDIT - C scores were calculated by summing individual item responses across the first three AUDIT items, where higher scores indicate more problematic alcohol use.

Responses to the nine items were summed such that higher scores represented greater difficulty in performing daily functions (or more functional limitations; M = 10.66, SD = 3.01).

The emotionality items and the framing items were summed to create separate composite indices, with higher scores reflecting a greater degree of agreement that messages were perceived as intended.

A composite score was obtained by summing the 7 ratings, and higher scores indicated more severe insomnia (total range, 5 - 35).

Positive interactions for 50 parent behaviors were summed with higher scores indicating greater teaching and responsiveness.

Items were summed such that higher scores indicated stronger trust.

Participants responded to the items using a 5 - point scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree), and responses were coded and summed such that higher scores indicated higher peer acceptance.

Subscale scores were obtained by summing scores for each subject's subscale items; higher scores indicate greater endorsement of that coping strategy.

Total scores were the sum of responses on items relevant to the anxious and avoidance dimensions, such that higher scores on each dimension indicated a less secure attachment style.

The sum of the ODD and CD items was then dichotomized according to established cut - scores of at least «moderate» to «high» severity.

All items were summed to create a total score ranging from 0 to 63 with high internal consistency (α = 0.87).

In addition, the sum composite score for disruptive behaviour problems tended to be higher for adolescents of Group 4 compared to offspring of groups 1 and 3 (see Table 2).

Primary outcomes were the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS) 25,26 for PTSD symptoms and the Symptom Checklist Depression Scale (SCL - 20) for depressive symptoms.27 The PDS (17 items) assesses severity of PTSD symptoms over the prior 4 weeks with high internal consistency and test - retest reliability26; scores are summed and range from 0 to 51; scores of 10 or less are mild; 11 to 20, moderate; 21 to 35, moderate to severe; and at least 36, severe.

Socioeconomic status is a continuous composite score based on the sum of the standardized household income and standardized parental educational level (for the parent with the highest educational level) scores, which was then restandardized.

This 40 - item parent questionnaire uses a «yes» or «no» response format to validate autistic traits, and is summed to obtain a total score, with higher scores indicating greater ASD severity (Rutter et al. 2003).

Higher values of the sum score (range 0 — 60, α =.88) indicate more depressed mood.

A sum score was used with higher scores indicating greater functional limitations.

Answers ranged on a 5 - point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree) and were summed to obtain a total stress score, with higher scores representing greater stress.

The two scales were summed to convey the impact disability may have in a wide range of real - life situations (Verbrugge & Jette, 1994), with higher scores indicating more disability.

First, to examine whether individuals with higher overall self - perceived mate value also choose others with relatively high overall self - perceived mate value, we ran correlations between these two summed scores separately for women and men.

The sum of the answers reflects the overall support, and higher total support score means that the perceived support is higher by the person that fills the questionnaire (10).

Items were summed to compute a total score with higher scores indicating greater FSOC.

Ratings on all items can be summed to create a total stress score, with higher scores reflecting higher levels of perceived stress by the parent.

The scores on the negatively stated items are reversed, so that all scores can be summed to obtain a total score, with higher scores reflecting a better parent - therapist working alliance.

The sum of items was calculated, such that higher scores indicate greater parent responsibility.

Items were rated on a 5 - point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree) and we divided the sum by 9 to give a mean score ranging from 1.0 to 5.0 with a higher score representing higher quality of the parent - adolescent relationship.