Sentences with phrase «about grade point averages»

But what about grade point averages and classroom performance?

As homeschooled teens progress through the high school years, many homeschooling parents ask questions about grade point averages.

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The meta - analysis I conducted indicates that students with high Bible literacy earn a grade point average that is about one point higher than that of students with low Bible literacy.

«If your children came home from college with a grade point average of less than 1.0 you might think about not paying for them to go back to school the next semester,» said Siena pollster Steve Greenberg.

Coach Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) is just about voted «most - unpopular» when he locks his high school basketball team out of the gym and cancels all games, until the players improve their grade point average.

The magnitudes are not trivial: they imply that students who take only online courses would have grade point averages about ten percentage points lower in the distribution than those who took only face - to - face courses, all else equal.

She has flown ahead of her peers in math, and earned an overall grade - point average of 3.28, and talks hopefully about applying to the University of California, Berkeley.

In the case of West Virginia for 4th - grade math, the difference (60.8 percent — 28.1 percent = 32.7 percentage points) is about 0.02 standard deviations worse than the average difference between the state test and the NAEP over the three years, which is 32.4 percent.

On the 3rd grade reading test, the average female scored 1.1 points - about half a standard deviation - higher than the average male.

Even with no training on the personal digital assistant (PDA), study participants caught on naturally to the gadget's features — Pocket Calendar, Tasks, and Class Pro features were the most useful — and experienced grade - point - average boosts of about 14 percent compared to the control group, which started with similar grades.

Either way, few ever pine for the days when all the information they had about a candidate's education was a grade point average and a couple numerical test scores.

An increase of 18 percentage points in percent proficient (i.e., one standard deviation) is associated with a rating that is on average 0.16 grade points higher, or about one - sixth of a letter grade.

In the years immediately following the No Child Left Behind Act (2002 to 2005), about half of all states improved their average fourth grade math achievement on NAEP at a rate faster than.08 standard deviations per year (which translates to 2.3 NAEP points).

The results show it moved to nearly 5 points in 8th - grade math and about 5 points in 4th - grade reading, having halved the distance from average in the past decade in both tests.

The annual Title II collection asks providers about 15 common admission requirements, including the applicant's subject area, transcript, overall grade - point average (GPA), content GPA, professional GPA, credits, scores on ACT / SAT / basic - skills tests, essays, interviews, recommendations, fingerprint and background checks, and «other.»

College students who are exposed to information about brain development that shows the plasticity of intelligence, Aronson and several colleagues have demonstrated, «reported greater enjoyment of the academic process, greater academic engagement, and obtained higher grade point averages than students in the control group.»

Accordingly, there is much research about how such survey data can be gamed and manipulated by instructors (e.g., via the use of external incentives / disincentives), can be biased by respondent or student background variables (e.g., charisma, attractiveness, gender and race as compared to the gender and race of the teacher or instructor, grade expected or earned in the class, overall grade point average, perceived course difficulty or the lack thereof), and the like.

Economists from MIT and Harvard, among other co-authors, found in one paper that voucher winners «were about 10 percentage points more likely than (lottery) losers to have completed eighth grade, primarily because they repeated fewer grades,» and that «on average, lottery winners scored about 0.2 standard deviations higher than losers.»

Utah's fourth grade students scored about five points above the national average and it's eighth graders scored nine points higher.

Th ink about the absurdity of brushing your teeth, of arguing with your mother over the appropriateness of what you're wearing to school, of homework, of grade - point averages and boyfriends and hot school lunches.

Yet, in some sense, it tells as little about an individual as a high school grade point average does.

I also rewatched Baka and Test, a comically rambunctious anime about a school where the classmates battle each other using avatars that are only as strong as their grade point average.

Here's what some of our hiring manager contacts tell Free Resume Builder about the importance of grade point averages.

Notice the absence of any details about high school career, grade point average, or similar accomplishments.

Eight studies that tracked the academic achievement of students for an average of 3.75 years after a social and emotional learning program found that participants performed about 13 percentage points higher in grades and standardized test scores than their peers, according to a 2017 overview of 82 social and emotional studies by researchers affiliated with the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning.