Sentences with phrase «scholastic achievement test»

Interestingly, while both ACT and SAT were originally acronyms (American College Testing and Scholastic Achievement Test, respectively) both are now recognized brand names with no official meaning.

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Every spring a few of the better high school juniors in Ohio compete in the Ohio Tests of Scholastic Achievement.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

Scholarly articles published by over 20 researchers in Monographs, titled «The Relation of Childhood Physical Activity to Brain Health, Cognition and Scholastic Achievement» indicate that while physical activity in schools has diminished in part because of a growing emphasis on student performance and academic testing, decreased physical activity is actually related to decreased academic performance.

The board — which oversees the country's largest standardized - testing programs, including the Scholastic Aptitude Tests, the Achievement Tests, and the Advanced Placement tests for high - school students — is a membership organization of more than 2,500 colleges, schools, school systems, and education associatTests, the Achievement Tests, and the Advanced Placement tests for high - school students — is a membership organization of more than 2,500 colleges, schools, school systems, and education associatTests, and the Advanced Placement tests for high - school students — is a membership organization of more than 2,500 colleges, schools, school systems, and education associattests for high - school students — is a membership organization of more than 2,500 colleges, schools, school systems, and education associations.

The presence of teacher unions is positively correlated with higher student achievement on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and the American College Test (ACT), according to a new study presented in the Harvard Educational Review (Winter 2000).

The occasion is the triennial release of global scholastic achievement rankings based on exams administered by the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, which tests students in 65 countries in math, science, and languages.

Most of the 40,000 teachers who responded to a 2009 online questionaire sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Scholastic said that state standardized tests are far less important in gauging student achievement than formative, ongoing assessments in class, class participation, and performance on class assignments.

Instead of relying solely on national tests, as was the case in 1991 — 92, the Israeli system is beginning to implement school - based review and internal monitoring of scholastic achievement in a project that includes about 60 schools.

Last year, Primary Sources: 2012, a report by Scholastic and the Gates Foundation, found that only 28 percent of educators see state - required standardized tests as an important gauge of student achievement.

In a study of students selected not on IQ but on mathematical or verbal aptitude, Dauber and Benbow (199012) compared the popularity, peer acceptance and peer interaction of extremely gifted students who had scored 700 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Mathematical) or 630 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Verbal) before age 13 (an achievement placing them at the top 1 in 10,000 among their age - peers) with those of moderately gifted students who scored at the 97th percentile on a grade - level math or verbal achievement tTest (Mathematical) or 630 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Verbal) before age 13 (an achievement placing them at the top 1 in 10,000 among their age - peers) with those of moderately gifted students who scored at the 97th percentile on a grade - level math or verbal achievement tTest (Verbal) before age 13 (an achievement placing them at the top 1 in 10,000 among their age - peers) with those of moderately gifted students who scored at the 97th percentile on a grade - level math or verbal achievement testtest.

In Chicago, 100 percent of the teachers at Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy voted to boycott the Illinois Standards Achievement Test, backed by the full support of the Chicago Teachers Union, which called it «an obsolete test [that] has no use to educators or administrators... and serves no purpose other than to give students another standardized test.&raTest, backed by the full support of the Chicago Teachers Union, which called it «an obsolete test [that] has no use to educators or administrators... and serves no purpose other than to give students another standardized test.&ratest [that] has no use to educators or administrators... and serves no purpose other than to give students another standardized test.&ratest.»

The test is designed to measure school aptitude and scholastic achievement in Reading, Mathematics, and Language.

The College Board, the national organization that sponsors the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and supplemental achievement tests, agrees in theory.