Sentences with phrase «above the test average»

While the TIMSS comparison speaks of 36 states being above the test average, the PISA tests show that our thirty - sixth state falls between Latvia and Lithuania.

Not exact matches

A break above that could lead the yields to next test 3.28 percent, the 200 - month simple moving average, which has not been reached since 1989.

People on the more successful teams in Woolley's experiment scored above average on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test.

A close above this level would lead to a test of the 10 - day moving average near 1.3238.

They look for a break back above the 100 - day moving average at $ 1320 and a test of the former support in the low $ 1330's.

The only true test of a money manager's ability is if he can obtain above - average results over a full cycle that includes both bull and bear markets.

We tested out the Beam app for ourselves and spoke with Beam's CEO to find out how the company plans to offer interest rates so far above the industry average.

It recently broke down through the 200 - day moving average after the breakup of two major telecom deals, and has not been able to recover above this mark, though it is testing it currently.

Mr Trump passed a series of heart exams including a stress test that Dr Jackson said showed an above - average exercise capacity for a man of his age, despite some calcium build up in his arteries.

We know then that to possess the strength of will to live above the average is one of the primary and most searching tests of character.

According to my eye test, some were average or slightly above average, and the rest were below average.

Arlington Heights School District 25, which has seven elementary and two middle schools, boasts above - average state test scores.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

This can be an especially helpful tool if your student has above or below average scores on their test, and can assist in encouraging your student further.

For example, research has found homeschoolers generally score 15 to 30 percentile points above public school students on standardized tests and they're achieving above average scores on the ACT and SAT tests.

The Academy also noted that its students» performance on state tests in math and English Language Arts runs above both the state average and that of the Hempstead public schools.

Governor Cuomo has questioned why more than 95 % of teachers last year were rated adequate or above average, when two thirds of schoolchildren in grades 3 to 8 were found in standardized tests not to be meeting the new requirements.

HOOSICK FALLS — PFOA blood test results began trickling in to residents by mail Saturday — and the above - average numbers started raising concerns.

New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney is pushing for a federally funded study by the Centers for Disease Control to better understand the long - term health effects of exposure to PFOS and PFOA after many residents tested above the national average.

At PS 137, only 11 % of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders scored «proficient» or above on the state math tests, whereas the citywide average was 38 %.

That is, there are no benchmark statistics against which to measure employees, so we don't know whether the score on a test is above or below or about average.

They chose schools that were both above and below average when it came to student test scores and collective efficacy for teachers.

The average daily air temperature in the Antarctic summer of 2013, when Goordial collected the permafrost samples which she tested both on the spot and later in the lab, was − 14 °C and it never rose above 0 °C, making the permafrost difficult to drill.

While a finish time of 17:30 is enough for servicewomen ages 37 to 51 to pass the test, breaking 18 minutes is considered above average for the rest of us in that age range.

Those who do talk and drive regularly, however, scored worse on the tests, even though most described themselves as having above average multitasking skills.

Intelligence testing showed her to be of «average to above average» intelligence.

The audio is not ground breaking but is above average and will test your rear speaker's bass abilities.

More recently, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) released new standards for teacher training programs: among them, each cohort of entrants should have a collective grade - point average (GPA) of 3.0 and college admission test scores above the national average by 2017 and in the top one - third by 2020.

In order to take a piece down ~ the class has to average 90 or above on tests.The students naturally became motivated (because they were interested) ~ and my test scores benefited.

These «value - added» measures are subject to some of the same problems, but by focusing on what students learn over the course of the year, they are a significant improvement over a simple average test score (or, worse yet, the percentage of students that score above an arbitrary «proficiency» threshold).

The extent to which a school is above or below that line indicates whether the average test - score improvement among its students has been greater or less than would be predicted based on their fluid cognitive skills.

In 1998, Florida scored about one grade level below the national average on the 4th - grade NAEP reading test, but it was scoring above that average by 2003, and made further gains in subsequent years (see Figure 1).

This issue's research section offers a first - of - its - kind study examining the impact of instructor quality on student achievement in the higher education sector — finding that students taught by above - average instructors receive higher grades and test scores, are more likely to succeed in subsequent courses, and earn more college credits.

Test scores in Massachusetts continue to improve, and the state consistently scores above the national average in all tested subjects on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

In recent years, the percentage of Kettle Moraine students deemed proficient or advanced in reading or math has been 5 to 25 points above the state average on Wisconsin's state standardized tests.

We then determined how many standard deviations each state's difference was above or below the average difference of all observations in 2009, 2007, and 2005 on each test.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the opposite phenomenon occurred: students switching from traditional public to charter schools appear to have been above - average performers compared with the other students in their school.

Vallas had based his accountability system almost entirely on what percentage of all students scored at or above national averages on the norm - referenced Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

Similarly, privileged public schools such as those in Beverly Hills, Torrey Pines (La Jolla), Calabasas, La Canada, and Corona Del Mar (Newport Beach) had above - average percentages of special test - takers.

On average, the 4th - grade math and reading test scores of KIPP late entrants were 0.15 to 0.16 standard deviations above the district average, putting them 0.19 standard deviations above the scores of students who enrolled in the normal intake grade.

And yes, her test scores are well above average.

But, he says, even though King Middle School and Casco Bay High School score above the state average on standardized tests, there's no way to know how much of that success is due to the laptops, the expeditionary learning, the collaboration among teachers, or something else entirely.

After two years in the program, two of the three schools advanced from «well below average» to «well above the district average» on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

Florida's scholarship students are among the most disadvantaged — the average household income of scholarship families was only $ 24,067 this year, 4.5 percent above the poverty line — yet on math and read tests, they still score near the national median among all students from all income ranges.

Western Governors says its students pass teacher certification tests administered by Pearson Education at a rate of 96.2 percent, and that they pass the Educational Testing Service's Praxis teacher tests at a rate that's 3.8 percentage points above the national average.

In recent years, 86 percent of the school's 8th graders passed the state's writing test, above the statewide average of 62 percent and better than the public schools of wealthy Greenwich.

Far fewer LEP students performed at or above the national average on the standardized test.

More than 90 percent of Southern students» scores on standardized tests in the 1986 - 87 school year were at or above national averages, a report by the Southern Regional Education Board has found.

Only 48.6 percent of New York City students read above the national average, but students have made gains over the past decade, according to standardized test scores.

Nearly four in five uninformed Americans support this requirement, and information about local district ranking does not reduce support for this sort of high - stakes testing in either above - average or below - average districts.