Sentences with phrase «predict reading outcomes»

In other words, sensitivity and specificity levels of 90 % and higher are desirable, but with the exception of a very small number of research studies limited to predicting reading outcomes for 1st graders (Compton, Fuchs, Fuchs, & Bryant, 2006; O'Connor & Jenkins, 1999) these ideals have yet to be reached.

Not exact matches

Had the ordinary synod of 2015 decided to give to dioceses and regions the decision of admitting divorced and civilly «remarried» couples to the Eucharist, for instance, a very strong case could be made that anyone able to read pontifical tea leaves would have been able to predict that outcome.

In this context of competitive close reading, the goal of analysis becomes not to enrich our understanding of an aesthetic artifact, but rather to decrypt a riddle and predict an outcome — to outsmart other viewers and the series.

Also, I read they have some new blood so the outcome is hard to predict.

It's impossible to predict every little breakthrough (a hundred years ago, we'd never have envisioned painless dentistry, the designated hitter or Thighmaster), but we're expert enough (in sports, not so much medicine) to forecast that Vince McMahon's WWF will become the umbrella organization that regulates all major league sports (except for boxing, which will continue to be guided by good sense alone), and outcomes will be scripted to provide total fan satisfaction (read: fireworks, near - naked women on every sideline, no 8 - 8 playoff teams ever and especially no Yankees championships).

It was interesting to read about the outcomes predicted by climate models for the year 2100 based on crucial decisions...

Researchers have found that levels can be used to predict not only the prognosis and likely survival outcomes of such conditions as cancer and heart disease,... Read More»

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

They can ask questions that encourage students to revisit their thoughts from before they read and that ask students to predict outcomes based on what they have read so far.

Questions in the reading section are broken into three broad categories: understanding factual information, evaluating written material (identifying the author's viewpoint, determining the main idea), and drawing inferences (inferring the feelings, motives and traits of characters in a story, predicting likely outcomes).

By the beginning of fourth grade, the point at which we can accurately predict long - term learning outcomes, only 33 percent of American children are at proficient reading levels.

Capturing the complexity: Content, type, and amount of instruction and quality of the classroom learning environment synergistically predict third graders» vocabulary and reading comprehension outcomes

These include the amount of time between screening and outcome measures, the complexity of the reading construct, and the reliance on brief measures to predict these complex outcomes.

There are no quick - time events, no difficult puzzles (if any), however the choices faced make you ponder on for a moment or two, but even those who have read the original book will struggle to predict outcomes since the game is designed to expand upon from the book.

«Ross [the application] can, for example, predict the outcome of court cases, suggest readings or answer a wide variety of legal precedent questions, at any point in a legal process.

Recently I read a press report on a legal tech startup that claimed it could predict the outcomes of legal matters with 71 % accuracy.

A decomposition methodology examined the contribution from different sources in explaining the SES gradient in early cognitive outcomes.34 Similar to the methodology used in the UK Millennium Cohort Study, we focus on the quintile 1 — quintile 5 (Q1 — Q5) and quintile 1 — quintile 3 (Q1 — Q3) gaps and calculate the percentile points and the percentage of the raw gaps explained by each candidate explanatory factor and each domain of factors.2 This was done by taking the product of the mean gap in each explanatory factor (mean difference between Q1 — Q5 and Q1 — Q3) by the β coefficients from linear regression models that predict reading and math ability from SES and all candidate explanatory factors.