Sentences with phrase «attain higher test scores»

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Leasure is currently attaining its highest standardized test scores in nine years and seeing tremendous growth in special education students» proficiency.

High - achieving students who feel pressured to attain perfection (and Ivy League acceptances) may turn to cheating as a way to find an edge on the competition or to keep a single bad test score from sabotaging months of hard work.

Moreover, ACT Inc., which began measuring college readiness as the American College Testing Program in the 1950s, reports that among the college aspirants who took its admission exams last year, only 21 percent of the graduating seniors attained scores high enough in all four subjects — English, reading, math, and science — to indicate that they wouldn't need to take a no - credit remedial course when they entered college.

Major sticking points included evaluating how much weight should be given to scores attained from language arts and math tests on the state's Assessment of Skills and Knowledge for fourth through eighth grades, and the High School Proficiency Assessment.

West Hartford students consistently score near the top on the Connecticut Mastery Tests, joining the likes of Avon and Greenwich students with over 79 percent attaining proficiency or higher on national exams.

The College Board deems test - takers who attain at least a score of 1550 out of 2400 as ready for college because they have a 65 percent probability or higher of receiving a B - grade or better during their first year in college.

For example, on the mathematics portion of the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to test, poor students (among those from lowest quartile in family income), who attended schools that served the poorest families (a school in the highest quartile of those receiving free and reduced lunch), attained a mean score of 425.

This change allows schools to continue to count the high - stakes test scores of students who are no longer classified as LEP, because they have attained English proficiency, in the LEP subgroup for two additional years after they have become English proficient.

Our preschool teachers currently use «Little Treasures» (for English Language Arts) and «Everyday Math» curriculum to enable our students to attain high Language and Reasoning test scores.

more than 98 percent of the students at six [traditional] Paterson high schools failed to attain passing math scores in this year's standardized state tests.»

The same higher score was attained in the multi-core test, where the NUCLUN 2 ended up with 5392 points, easily overshadowing the 4970 points earned by the Exynos 7420.

Our goal is for our PTCB study materials, coupled with diligent effort, to empower a test - taker to attain the highest PTCB score within their ability to achieve.