Sentences with phrase «sat verbal scores»

Average SAT verbal scores are the lowest on record — at 497.

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During the past decade your school enrolled and suited up at least one player who had scored a 200 on his verbal SAT — the number you get for spelling your name correctly.

This will be a huge challenge for students, particularly in high school, as NAEP proficiency is the equivalent of an SAT score in verbal and math of nearly 1200 — or 200 points higher than the average student taking the SAT today achieves.

Thus, in a paper on Pell grants, Jenna Ashley Robinson and Duke Cheston recommend that Pell grant recipients have SAT scores of at least 850 (verbal and math) and a high school GPA of at least 2.5 (between a C and a B).

Students who took the SAT once under standard conditions and then requested an accommodation scored 45 and 38 points higher in verbal and math, respectively, when they retook the test with extended time.

Boyd, et al are not surprised by this finding because verbal SAT scores are highly correlated with other measures in their model, but this hardly proves the case that ed schools should be graded by establishing higher SAT requirements for admission.

To be defined as high - achieving, we required that students score in the top 10 percent of test - takers on the College Board's SAT I or the ACT (1,300 math plus verbal on the SAT, 28 on the ACT).

In fact, if you look at Table 4 in their paper you will find that teachers with higher verbal SAT scores are negatively associated with student gains in math achievement.

Recent years» SAT scores have shown tiny gains in math, offset by declines in verbal performance.

If teacher - candidates took the SAT after April 1995, they would need to have earned at least 530 out of a possible 800 on each section, mathematics and verbal, and a combined score of at least 1100.

Dr. Leo Klagholz, a commissioner of education in New Jersey in the 1990s, surveyed his state's teacher colleges in the 1980s and found that, for prospective teachers, the verbal and math SAT scores, when combined, were lower than 800 out of a possible score of 1,600.

Other teacher attributes: Recent studies suggest that measures of teachers» academic skills, such as SAT or ACT scores, tests of verbal ability, or the selectivity of the colleges they attended, may predict their effectiveness more accurately than the characteristics discussed above.

Students who score well on the verbal SAT invariably possess a broad vocabulary that represents broad general knowledge - which is hardly surprising, given that the verbal SAT is essentially an advanced vocabulary test.

National reports such as A Nation at Risk noted the failure of schools to provide the nation with a more literate populace as evidenced by allegedly declining verbal SAT scores and less than encouraging results of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessments.

Table 1 presents the mean SAT scores in Verbal and Math, plus the percentage of students eligible for FREE lunch (not Free and Reduced because the negative influence on achievement comes from FREE lunch eligibility), percentage of students who are limited English proficient (LEP) and the percentage of students with special needs for districts located in the A, B, (NJ's poorest communities) and I, J DFG's (NJ's wealthiest communities), plus those for charter schools (denoted by an «R» on the scatter plots).

One out of every two Newark students didn't graduate from high school, and average SAT scores were 311 in verbal and 363 in math.

Must be a Wyoming resident for at least five years; Wyoming high school graduate; score a composite score of 25 on the ACT or a minimum of 1120 on the SAT (verbal and math); enrolled as a full - time student in a teacher preparation program at the University of Wyoming community college.

Large scale studies show score increases of 38 - 50 points on SAT in verbal and math.

University based programs are offered to junior - high - age students who have met a minimum score criterion on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), given in the spring to all students in the system who are at the 95th percentile or higher on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), mathematics or verbal sections.

* Don't use the words that got you your 760 verbal SAT score.