66 They also used LIWC to measure plain language by calculating the inverse of
the average words per sentence.67 Both were positively associated with the percentage of brief language adopted in the Court's opinion and the associations were highly significant.68 Our study builds on this multi-factor approach to measuring readability.
The teacher administers an oral reading fluency assessment, listening to each student read grade - level passages and calculating the number of words and
average words per minute the student has read correctly.
* WCPM = Words Correct Per Minute ** Average weekly improvement is
the average words per week growth you can expect from a student.
Not exact matches
Once Gossage had the conversion rates for all the publications in hand, he was able to calculate the marketing cost
per sale (
average cost
per lead divided by the conversion rate, multiplied by a factor of.68 to account for estimated sales through
word of mouth).
My blog is 7 months old and so far I've posted 23 posts
averaging 1.5 k
words per post.
In other
words, an
average of more than 126,800 immigrants arrived
per year from the Asia Pacific to Canada.
In other
words, over the period of study, Canadian stocks
averaged 9.70 %
per year but, in any given year returns fell between -24 % and +43 %, 95 % of the time.
In other
words, the Dividend Aristocrats have outperformed the S&P 500 by an
average of more than 3 %
per year for ten years.
The core material is 468,381,981,780
words, which is divided between 5,039 chapters, for an
average of 92,951,375
words per chapter.
FWIW, a Study Q'ran constructed in a similar manner would contain 1.323331053 × 10 ¹⁴
words, divided between 84,699 chapters, for an
average of 1,562,392,772
words per chapter.
Brando gives viewers short, precise calls, often using only a few
words at a time (an
average of 6.1
words per sentence).
Laughable isn't the
word to describe his
averages in points (8.6
per game through Monday), rebounds (4.1) and blocked shots (0.8), or his.437 field goal percentage.
Well, for one it's a great
word, for two, Saponara has seen a dramatic decline in his play from last season, one in which he seemed like Italy's next great # 10, scoring five goals and dishing out an impressive 11 assists, all while
averaging over two key passes, two dribbles and two shots
per match, a feat no one on Roma managed last season.
In other
words, you'll want to steer clear of hot tubs, or limit heat exposure
per the APA guidelines, but an
average warm bath is ok.
After controlling for other factors, such as parents» educational status and the number of children
per household, the analysis revealed that for every hour
per day spent watching baby DVDs, toddlers understood an
average of six to eight
words fewer than those who did not view them.
For instance, the texts were analyzed with regard to how many different
words are being used, the
average number of
words per sentence, grammatical structures, how often the genitive — an indicator for high education in German — is used, or the number of connectors, meaning
words that signal semantic relations such as «however» or «instead.»
And when
word got out at Georgia Tech that Dommond had a 98
per cent
average in her classwork, the previously dismissive student turned his chair around.
Average rates were 7.8
words per minute for Degray and 6.3 and 2.7
words per minute, respectively, for the other two participants.
Average readers manage about 200
words per minute.
In contrast, those who repeatedly studied the
words, without actively testing themselves, scored an
average of just 36
per cent (Science, vol 319, p 966).
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.
For a beginner to reach a speed of 40
words per minute, the person would need 56 hours of training on a QWERTY keyboard (an
average of four hours
per day during my two weeks of chicken pox) but only 18 hours on a Dvorak keyboard.
Indeed, the highest performing participant could, on
average, type nearly 8
words per minute.
Normally I would disagree with you, and I wouldn't use your exact
wording either way
per se, but True Grit was a pretty
average to unspectacular movie that in no way should be up for Best Picture AND definitely not Best Director.
Dr. Mark David Milliron comments, «While the new generations send text messages at 60
words per minute, the Baby Boomers text at six
words per minute on
average.»
In a Canby fourth - grade classroom of sixteen students, from the fall to mid-year assessment of reading fluency, when
average increase in
word count
per minute (WCPM) is 12, the
average in the iPod classroom was close to 20.
In other
words, these schools typically received 1 to 4 percent more than the district
average, or $ 15,000 to $ 60,000
per school of 500 students in a district where the
average school expenditure is $ 3,000
per pupil.
For me, I knew the moment I read this
word problem to my fifth - grade summer school students: «On
average, the sun's energy density reaching Earth's upper atmosphere is 1,350 watts
per square meter.
By Education Week «s measure, only 11 states have
average spending levels below our benchmark for adequacy (in other
words, 80 percent of Massachusetts»
per - pupil
average).
Children in between, who read 15 — 29 minutes
per day, will encounter an
average of 5.7 million
words — less than half of the high - reading group but nearly four times that of the low - reading group.1
At graduation, their peers who
averaged less than 15 minutes of reading
per day are likely to be exposed to only 1.5 million
words.
Despite greater attention to
words in elementary curricula, our results indicated tremendous disparity across curricula.24 For example, one curriculum listed an
average of 20 target vocabulary
words per week to be taught, whereas another listed, on
average, only two.
In other
words, although the typical ESA student would receive only about one - fifth of the $ 18,216 that New Hampshire district schools spend
per pupil, on
average, the funding level would still put a wide variety of educational options within reach of the
average Granite State family.
For every 10 % increase in the coding of coaching in
word recognition strategies, students» fluency score increased by 8.9
words correct
per minute on
average.
If we note that students increased their scores by an
average of 20
words correct
per minute
per year (see Table 7) and that school scores on the collaborative leadership scale ranged from 1.1 to 1.9 with a mean of 1.7 (out of a high score of 3), then we can surmise that, at least in principle, a school gaining one additional point on the collaborative leadership scale could make up a year's worth of fluency performance.
For every 10 % increase in the coding of higher - level questioning, students» fluency scores increased by an
average of 8.8
words correct
per minute.
For every 10 % increase in the coding of active responding, students» fluency score increase on
average by 5.4
words correct
per minute.
For every 10 % increase in the coding of small - group instruction, students» fluency score increased by an
average of 2.1
words correct
per minute.
For every 10 % increase in the coding of phonics instruction, students» fluency score decreased by 3.0
words correct
per minute on
average.
And based on annual Accelerated Reader Data, a computer - adaptive assessment, his students read an
average of 1 million
words per year — tripling the 300,000
word per year
average of a typical fourth - grader.
To determine if a student needs a reading fluency intervention, compare his or her
average words - correct -
per - minute (wcpm) score from two or three unpracticed readings of grade - level assessment passages to oral reading fluency norms, such as the Hasbrouck - Tindal Oral Reading Fluency Norms.
The software automatically calculates the student's
words - correct -
per - minute (wcpm) score on each passage and
averages the scores.
An individual report for each student provides the student's
average words - correct -
per - minute (wcpm) score and general recommendations based on the student's results.
When I am working on a first draft, I
average 5,000
words per day.
Franck Dernoncourt, a research scientist at Adobe Research, has said that the
average typist works from 50 to 80
words per minute, but that the speech recognition rate is more than 100
words per minute.
Well, typing non-stop for 40 hours at the
average typing speed of 40
words per minute, you would get about 96,000
words.
When I'm prioritizing finishing a book, I shoot to
average 2000
words per day.
If you consider that a TED talk
averages 163
words per minute, you can see why writers are turning to speech recognition software like Dragon or LilySpeech.
Our lowest option is «The Quick Kill» at 2cents
per word, which is a rough industry
average (assuming a standard page is 250
words, that comes out to $ 5 / page or $ 20
per 1000
words).
I did 60,000
words in 30 days, and I didn't work every day, so my «writing» sessions went from 2000
average up to around 3500
words per session.