Sentences with phrase «by achieving a high score»

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A borrower could potentially land a better rate by achieving a higher credit score, putting more money down, or even paying points at closing.

Should Mohamed Salah net at The Hawthorns, he will equal the highest number of goals scored in a 38 - game Premier League season (31)- a total only previously achieved by Luis Suarez, Cristiano Ronaldo and Alan Shearer.

Should Liverpool's No. 11 net at The Hawthorns, he will equal the highest number of goals scored in a 38 - game Premier League season (31)- a total only previously achieved by Suarez, Ronaldo and Shearer.

A New York City proposal to diversify middle schools on Manhattan's Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from parents worried their high - achieving children might lose access to the popular public schools.

According to the models comparing high - scoring F schools with low - scoring D schools, to achieve the same 5 - point gain in math that the threat of vouchers accomplished, Florida schools would need to increase per - pupil spending by $ 3,484 at previously failing schools.

The difficulty of attracting high achieving students to university education programs is more challenging than is reflected by ATAR entry scores.

Higher - performing schools facing pressure to achieve favorable recognition appear to have responded primarily by finding ways to exempt their low - scoring students from counting toward the school's results.

The lottery study corroborates these results, as students admitted to the G&T magnet schools show little improvement in test scores by 7th grade, despite having higher - achieving peers and being taught by more effective teachers.

The first shows that barely eligible students who participated in LUSD's G&T curriculum for all of 6th grade and half of 7th grade exhibit no significant improvement in test scores across a range of subjects, despite their being surrounded by higher - achieving peers and taking more advanced courses.

Data from the tracking schools allow us to estimate the effect of being taught with a higher - achieving vs. lower - achieving peer group by comparing students with baseline test scores in the middle of the distribution.

The report shows Australian students in metropolitan schools achieved an average score of 514 points, significantly higher by 36 points (about one year of schooling) than students in provincial schools and higher by 68 points (about two years of schooling) than students in remote schools.

That is the score achieved by the exact middle student in the year 12 class when their scores are ranked from lowest to highest.

According to findings released by researchers at the Strategic Data Project (SDP), as many as 16 percent of the students in SDP partner districts who are high achieving, as indicated by superior grades and SAT scores, do not attend college once they complete high school.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

She believed that by taking more advanced courses, students could achieve higher scores on standardized tests.

The AP curricula seek to prepare high - achieving students for higher education by offering college - level courses and even potential college credit for high exam scores.

She started her career as a teacher in Durham, North Carolina, where, by her third year teaching, her students achieved the highest math scores at her school.

An earlier study published by Education Next investigated the claim that KIPP charter schools were only able to achieve high scores because of student attrition.

We also found that higher - achieving classes, as measured by their average 3rd - grade test score in the relevant subject, may fare somewhat better than lower - achieving classes under teachers with tough grading standards.

The United States looks east to China and is captivated by the high scores on international assessments students in that country achieve.

The administration achieves this reduction by slashing or eliminating funding for scores of K - 12, higher education, and adult literacy programs by even more than $ 9.2 billion in order to finance massive increases in defense spending coupled with, in the education context, a more than $ 1 billion allocation for Title I portability programs and private school vouchers.25

SAT Subject Test scores aren't comparable to general SAT scores because the Subject Tests tend to be taken by a higher percentage of high - achieving students than the SAT.

ScholarCentric's researchers have also conducted three separate studies to evaluate whether students» resiliency scores, as measured by the Success Highways Resiliency Assessment, could 1) differentiate high from low academically achieving students using several factors; and / or 2) identify whether the assessment could be further refined to serve as an early warning indicator of potential high school failure.

Policy makers see competitiveness achieved by securing a high rank in the proverbial leagues tables, such as PISA scores and other international assessments.

In fact, the assessment systems of most of the highest - achieving nations in the world are a combination of centralized assessments that use mostly open - ended and essay questions and local assessments given by teachers which are factored into the final examination scores.

This study indicated that the high - poverty schools achieving the highest reading scores were governed by active Local School Councils who chose their principals, and had experienced unionized teachers.

Daniel didn't achieve high test - scores by the end of the year, but he did manage to stop getting suspended, having found a class he could enjoy and a teacher he could trust.

The study found that students who took CREST achieved half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result and that FSM eligible students made even greater progress, increasing their best GCSE science score by two thirds of a grade.

Even those schools that get high test scores often achieve this by cherry - picking new students and culling existing ones through high attrition rates.

Some proponents of teacher evaluation reforms have conjectured that if districts would eliminate the bottom 5 to 10 percent of teachers each year, as measured by value - added student test scores, U.S. student achievement would increase by a substantial amount — enough to catch up to high - achieving countries like Finland.3 However, there is no real - world evidence to support this idea and quite a bit to dispute it.

The United States looks east and is captivated by the high assessment scores that many Chinese students achieve.

The research supports one conclusion: value - added scores for teachers of low - achieving students are underestimated, and value - added scores of teachers of high - achieving students are overestimated by models that control for only a few scores (or for only one score) on previous achievement tests without adjusting for measurement error.

SAT Subject Test scores can't be compared to general SAT scores because the subject tests are taken by a higher percentage of high - achieving students than the regular SAT.

When the Model S was tested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for the United States safety regulations, and its results were published in August of 2013, it achieved the highest score ever recorded.

It achieves this goal in collaboration with medical and scientific bodies, as well as with major series» organizers (FIA, SFI, NHRA, SCTA, SCCA, SCORE...), with whom safety - related seminars and lectures are presented by high - profile experts and specialists in order to bring awareness of safety issues and solutions to the forefront of the motorsports world.

The 2013 Toyota RAV4 EV compact SUV achieved the highest overall green car score in the history of Green Car Guide, followed by the Lexus GS 450h hybrid luxury sedan, Toyota Highlander Hybrid SUV and Camry Hybrid sedan with the second, third and fourth highest scores respectively.

All - new Pacifica achieves «good» rating — the highest possible score — in each of five tests used by IIHS to evaluate crashworthiness

the system also achieved the best scores ever on our splinter cell: chaos theory gaming tests — 175 frames per second at 1,024 - by - 768 and 108 at 1,600 - by - 1,200 — and on our adobe photoshop cs2 action set, but that test is relatively new, so we don't have scores from other high - end gaming systems for comparison.

On Linpack, a test that measures CPU power, the Nexus 7 achieved a single - threaded score of 46.6 and a multi-threaded score of 128.26, way higher than the 38.5 and 51.5 tablet averages and even stronger than the 44.1 and 118.4 turned in by the Tegra 3 - powered Toshiba Excite 7.7.

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«To achieve such high customer satisfaction scores and sustain them over time is a remarkable feat,» the study concluded, «that remains unmatched by any other e-retailer.»

Amazon actually achieved a 90 % satisfaction rate — the highest score ever recorded by the survey.

And actually, the graphic above shows the performance of the Transformer Prime at 1.4 GHz, but apparently the highest benchmark results were achieved by a Transformer Prime running at 1.6 GHz, scoring 12872.

A borrower could potentially land a better rate by achieving a higher credit score, putting more money down, or even paying points at closing.

CreditUmbrella measures its effectiveness in terms of how much money users are able to save on interests by using the software to achieve a higher credit score.

«A high FICO score can best be achieved by regularly and responsibly utilizing a few accounts of different types, while always paying on time, keeping balances low and applying for new credit only when needed.»

The highest score on Donkey Kong is 1,218,000 points and was achieved by Wes Copeland (USA), in Boston, Massachusetts, USA on 5 May 2016.

Mario Games 1.0 is a simple platformer in which you, as Mario, seek to achieve high scores by stomping gumbas, Koopa shells and collecting coins.

The goal is to achieve the highest possible score by dispatching foes with as much flare and variety as possible.