Sentences with phrase «achieved higher average»

Eighth graders in only five states — Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Minnesota and Vermont — achieved higher average math scores than Virginia students, compared with seven states in 2011.

African - American students in YES Prep schools achieved a higher average SAT combined score for reading, writing and mathematics — 1556 — than any other eligible CMO.

According to provisional figures results, local authority schools have achieved higher average GCSE results than free schools.

The low interest rate environment may also have encouraged a shift in investments towards hedge funds as, in the past, hedge funds have achieved higher average returns than traditionally managed investments, albeit in exchange for greater risk.

The Dutch are not only amongst the top ten potato producers in the world, but also achieve the highest average yield rates per square meter.

As a seventh grade math teacher, Betsy led her students to achieve the highest average growth in the state.

Virginia Asian, black, Hispanic and white fourth - grade students achieved the highest average scores for their respective subgroups.

However, it would be difficult to achieve that high average sensitivity if the current fast - feedback sensitivity were not at least in the upper half of the range of 3 ± 1 °C for 2 × CO2.

Not exact matches

On average, hospitals that achieved savings with the bundled model were larger with an average of 301 beds compared to 230 for hospitals that did not achieve savings, and had higher patient volumes.

This is achieved through a series of high value touches — roughly 10, on average — comprised of a blend inbound and outbound marketing tactics.

Negative equity borrowers often achieved high loan - to - value ratios with subordinate liens in addition to their first lien and had higher than average debt - to - income ratios.

Logically, by taking more risk — in paying up to own «growth» stocks at higher multiples than the market average — one should expect to achieve higher returns.

In fact, even a several - year span can be misleading, as a manager may be able to achieve above - average results by owning very high - risk stocks in a generally rising market but be virtually wiped out in the same class of stocks in a bear market.

This means the current asking price of a Miami Beach luxury condo listed for sale is about 42 percent higher than the average transaction price achieved on a per - unit basis and nearly 22 percent higher than the average transaction price on a per - square - foot basis in the first six months of 2017.

The Oakmark Global Select Fund has outperformed the average of Oakmark and Oakmark International in six of the nine ensuing calendar years and has also achieved a higher cumulative return.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

By taking this diversified and balanced approach, investors in the Growth Account have achieved an average return of 8.5 % before tax — higher than the target rate of 6 % — as shown in the chart below.

While none of the companies assessed have achieved full traceability of their supply chains, 17 of them have processes in place to trace some aspects, and traceability was the theme with the highest average score.

Over the past decade EPS has achieved an average recycling rate of 15 %, one of the highest of the plastics family.

Scezny kept the highest number of clean sheet last season alongside cech, hardly a feat that can be achieved by average keepers.

There are 13 games left in the season and an analysis of our final 13 games in each of the 19 EPL seasons (shown below) shows that we have achieved an average of 26 points with a high of 39 points in 2001/2 and a low of 14 points in 1994/5, and last season we had only 18 points.

Students at these high - achieving schools can be ranked in the bottom quartile even with excellent grade point averages, and consequently feel «dumb» and «less worthy» compared to the majority of their peers.

On average, what we're seeing at the very high achieving schools is kids doing three - and - a-half, four, five hours of homework a night.

Pope, the co-founder of Challenge Success, said that research from that group found that high school students from high - achieving schools average more than three hours of homework each night, and middle school students average about 2.5 hours.

And sure enough: in the post-1945 period, those who achieved the highest office of Prime Minister lived on average 9 years longer than those Deputy Prime Ministers.

However, before we consign the party to history, it's worth recounting that it did achieve a national vote share in 2010 of around a fifth higher than the Clegg era poll average of 18 per cent.

Those who are most threatened achieve lower grade point averages and are twice as likely either not to finish high school or go on to college.

Any pledges to lower emissions by a uniform percentage among industrial countries will be much harder for the U.S. to achieve, simply because it is gaining people so fast through immigration and a birthrate that is higher than average for a developed nation.

After taking into account their parents» income and education — factors that are known to affect exam scores — the highest - achieving students were more than three times more likely to suffer from the mental illness than their average peers.

In a study published this September in Nature Medicine the group used the BrainGate system, to achieve the highest published performance of «virtual typing» by a person to date — which translated to approximately six words per minute, still much slower than the average typing speed.

If we decrease protein too much, we will lose lean mass if we are more muscular than average via resistance training and higher protein intakes to achieve greater lean tissue.

One thing is for sure; above average levels, the type of levels achieved by stuffing down tons of pills in order to prevent osteoporosis, are strongly linked to higher diabetes levels.

~ 42 % of messages which included the word «atheist» achieved replies, significantly higher than the average response rate of 32 %.

Home - invasion thriller Breaking In landed in the chart behind Life of the Party, although it achieved a higher site average.

The former was achieved on the Ultimate Groove (its 7.52 Mb / sec average bitrate slightly conquers this disc's 6.5 Mb / sec average) with some detectable evidence (one might notice very minor color banding and edge ringing on large displays), while the latter awaits a high - definition format like the industry's impending frontrunner Blu - Ray for potentially even more visual beauty on capable TV sets.

Last year, the school celebrated A-Level and GCSE results far higher than Wales's average, with 88 % of its sixth form achieving A * - B grades.

Male trade high school students achieved an average time of 7 minutes and 40 seconds, technical high school students 8 minutes and 15 seconds and academic high school students 9 minutes and 12 seconds.

Since 1996, these standards have required prospective college athletes to take more academic courses and achieve higher grade point averages and college - entrance - exam scores.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

The study, «GCSEs, A levels and apprenticeships: their economic value», found that having 5 A * to C grade GCSEs adds an average # 60,000 to an individual's lifetime productivity, particularly if the pupil achieves high grades in English and maths.

«There are always caveats with this type of analysis, but the results suggest that students participating in the Silver CREST Awards achieve about half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result on average compared with a statistically - similar control group.

High - achieving students gain an average of only 2 points when taught by the least effective teachers but an average of 25 points when taught by the most effective teachers.

The number of high - achieving minority students in the average school is fewer than the number of high - achieving white students.

While one finds some evidence that high - achieving students are more popular among students of other ethnicities, the increment is not enough to offset the decline in popularity within their own ethnic group — a predictable finding, given that black and white students have only, on average, one friend of another ethnicity, and Hispanics just one and a half.

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.

According to the College Board, in order to have a 65 percent chance of getting a B - average in college, students should achieve about 1030 on the math and verbal SATs and earn a B average in high school (taking courses of at least «average» rigor).

Viewed as a group, schools managed by our CMOs achieve rates of proficiency on state assessments in reading and math that average about 9 percentage points higher than those of schools in their local districts (see Figure 2).

They found that the arrival of low - achieving evacuees dragged down the average performance of the Houston students and had a particularly negative impact on high - achieving Houston kids.

It revealed that: «On average children who had undertaken the fieldwork activity achieved higher literacy scores than children that did not.»

This study concluded that «students who received assignments requiring more challenging intellectual work also achieved greater than average gains on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills in reading and mathematics, and demonstrated higher performance in reading, mathematics, and writing on the Illinois Goals Assessment Program.