Sentences with phrase «better test scores do»

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It found that children of American homeowners scored no better on math and reading tests than renters» kids, nor did they have lower high - school dropout rates.

Why didn't they entitle the chart with something more positive such as, «Being Asian Can Get You A Lower Mortgage Rate,» or «Although Asians Need Higher Grades And Test Scores To Have The Same Chance To Get Into University, At Least Asians Get To Pay Lower Mortgage Rates,» or «Despite Some Disadvantages Of Being A Minority, You Can Still Get The Best Mortgage Rate Possible,» or «Being A Minority May Make It Easier To Get A Better Rate.»

My one question is... since when do you have to score well on a test to be able to believe or not believe in something?

An NFL personnel executive told me that Gurley did not score well on his intelligence test.

Tactically it was a good game we could have finished stronger if all our chances were registered The game was played with monaco on our mind though carzola worked very hard but then we do not have to travel we need to be sure to score well on Wednesday to secure our position but also it was a good defensive exercise we won I am so delighted and proud as we needed the test and yes we passed the test it wasn't pretty but yes we are in the 3rd position

Chelsea scored & sat back the old Chelsea would have smashed us 4/5 fickle fans thinking we played well etc did we hell bunch of bottlers I said it 3 weeks ago the avid test would be Liverpool, Stoke, Chelsea and without fail the bunch of pansies live up to their reputation.

More and more it seemed like the district's only goals were to raise the kids» standardized test scores and to teach them to fear authority — both of which, I'll admit, they did quite well.

They feel like they're caught in this very competitive race, and without something that is easy to measure like test scores, they don't know how well their kids are doing.

While I don't think test scores are everything when it comes to a school's success (happy kids, extracurriculars, etc matter a whole lot, too), they're one of the only ways of assessing how well a school is functioning at what I think should be its main function — which is educating kids.

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Any indicator that does not score 10/10 on the report card means more needs to be done (the scores are not like a test result where a lower score is good enough for a pass).

Even though the elementary school is doing well academically, low test scores by students at the upper school have hurt the school's grade, Mulgrew noted.

Officials say research shows that after - school programing can help a child stay in school, avoid troubles with the law and do better when it comes to peer relationships and test scores.

More than 200 teachers and principals received erroneous scores from the state on a contentious measurement that ties their performance to how well their students do on tests, according to state documents obtained by The New York Times.

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

Property taxes dropped dramatically, but so did school performance, with test scores going from the best in the nation to some of the worst.

But the rote memorization of facts, formulas or rules that can lead to high scores on such tests do not a good 21st century scientist or engineer make, notes Alan Friedman, a member of an independent, bipartisan board established by Congress to set policy for NAEP.

Not only did the experimental group score better on tests of their cognition compared with the control group, but the improvement was twice as great as the one that had previously been shown for the antidementia drug donepezil (brand name Aricept).

Those who did more light physical activity or had less sedentary time per day had lower pain scores on the conditioned pain modulation test — indicating better pain inhibition.

«If you go to a community center and take a memory test, it doesn't say whether you would have scored better or the same a year ago.

The results confirmed that women on average do indeed score better on this test.

Study participants who scored highest on a general - science - literacy test did the best on the study's climate - literacy test.

Students who didn't score well on the image test tended to receive lower math scores, even after factors, such as IQ levels, were taken into account.

«If a student takes a test, gets a great score, you don't want him to get a big head and back off — you want him to keep working and do better,» he says.

The research focused specifically on cell phone use behind the wheel, and it found that people who scored highest on multitasking tests do not frequently engage in simultaneous driving and cell - phone use — probably because they can better focus on one thing at a time.

So don't forget, your scores of the tongue test may in fact worsen before they get better.

Well - nourished students in Madrid who consumed an adequate breakfast (more than 20 percent of their daily energy) achieved better reasoning scores in the scholastic aptitude test (SAT) than did breakfast - skippers.3 What a good motivator for your profession - aspiring teen: «If you are college - bound, eat breakfast!»

The researchers also compared sugary ready - to - eat cereal to oatmeal and found oatmeal's nutritional advantage (more nourishing whole food meal) made it a better choice at improving brain power and encouraging better test scores.1 Additional stats show higher test grades and better school attendance in breakfast eaters than in non-breakfast eaters too.2 Bottom line: to excel in whatever we do, whether it be school, work, play or relationships, we need breakfast to be at the top of our mental game.

The results were striking: Across all demographic groups, the people who had higher scores on the measures of cardiovascular health did better on the mental tests than those who scored low.

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We don't really care about test scores per se, we care about them because we think they are near - term proxies for later life outcomes that we really do care about — like graduating from high school, going to college, getting a job, earning a good living, staying out of jail, etc...

At best, that focus gets only slight improvements in test scores, which does not necessarily translate into students being better readers, writers, and thinkers.

There's plenty of evidence that students attending «no excuses» charter schools can do extremely well on standardized tests, but do the benefits of this approach to education extend beyond test scores?

And giving D.C. students money to behave in class, do their homework, and show up for school also resulted in better test scores.

Why didn't tying money to outputs such as good grades or higher test scores work?

Other than the general disconnect between test scores and later life outcomes (in both directions), I notice that the No Excuses charter model that is currently the darling of the ed reform movement and that New York Times columnists have declared as the only type of «Schools that Work» tend not to fare nearly as well in later outcomes as they do on test scores.

«And, the pattern that I saw, over and over again, was schools that would either devote themselves to getting the kids to score well on tests, or they would focus on the culture - and in either case they didn't seem to succeed very well.»

GreatSchools.org, through its GreatKids initiative, offers a Test Guide for Parents that walks families through score reports, what the results mean, and how they can help their kids do better.

There isnt good research on this topic, but I do nt believe that any school that can be considered a test - prep factory will ever have test scores as high as schools that teach a solid, interesting curriculum tied to a set of high standards.

How long did it take for us to realize that a standardized test score isn't the best way to measure teacher effectiveness?

In those countries, and Japan is a very good example, the test scores don't actually track boys who are being lost in the system, because those boys leave the system.

The results do suggest, however, that the aggregate test scores on the 4th - grade NAEP could well be inflated by the retention policy.

Indeed, with our sometimes single - minded focus on test scores, we may well be subverting the message that my English teacher offered me long ago: that it is best to be purposeful about whatever we do.

Once good standards and decent tests are in place, states should release test scores (and other revealing information such as graduation rates) every which way, and they should rate their schools on an easy to understand scale, ideally from A to F, as Florida started doing under Governor Jeb Bush.

Again, gains in test scores do not appear to capture very well the quality of schools or programs.

But you don't emphasize an important point: Whatever benefits students experienced in kindergarten that resulted in higher test scores, they did not cause higher test scores in later grades — even though they produced better later - life outcomes.

So if the charter board, local authorizer, and parents think a school is doing a good job even if test scores look «bad,» we should defer to them.

While 93 percent of U.S. eighth - graders failed to achieve an advanced score on the test, only 5 percent of them «Disagreed a lot» with the statement that they «do well in math.»

Apparently, students did not understand they needed to study day - in - and - day - out in order to score well on those end - of - year tests.

Researchers have shown that teachers in general don't favour or encourage students who score well on creativity tests.