Sentences with phrase «called gain scores»

Estimates that include student fixed effects require at least three years of scores, which provide two changes in scores from one period to another, typically called gain scores (even though in some cases they are losses, not gains).

Not exact matches

Commonly called the «debt snowball,» this strategy can help you win the crucial psychological battle of overcoming debt: Paying off the smallest balances first means you'll score some «big wins» and start gaining momentum right away in what can be a long, discouraging process.

A significant swing to the SNP in Scotland could see the nationalists gain power, but with many seats yet to declare and scores of spoilt ballot papers, the result is still too close to call.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Last week Rocketship Education announced the results of an independent 16 - week study by SRI International that showed that students who had greater access to online instruction in math, specifically a learning program called Dreambox Learning, achieved significant gains in mathematics scores.

Even she attributes much of the test - score gains in her two years to the district's ability to pick what she calls «low - hanging fruit.»

And the situation is even worse because most regulators making decisions about what choice schools should be opened, expanded, or closed are not relying on rigorously identified gains in test scores — they just look primarily at the levels of test scores and call those with low scores bad.

Those with the highest «grit» scores, as she calls them — with the most persistence — turned out to be the best teachers, based on the academic gains of their students.

She also wrongly asserts that students from the Calvary Christian school would need to score in the top 4 percent of the SAT II (now called SAT Subject Tests) to gain admittance based on test scores.

In February 2012, the New York Times took the unusual step of publishing performance ratings for nearly 18,000 New York City teachers based on their students» test - score gains, commonly called value - added (VA) measures.

Another potential explanation for the exceptional gains made by schools facing voucher competition is that their extremely low initial scores are affected by a statistical tendency called «regression to the mean.»

I call that instructional feedback, which is very important and a component of formative assessment; however, what I think is missing right now is the actual recording of formative scores, so that both teachers and students can see knowledge gained.

A teacher's observation scores are supplemented by a so - called «value - added» rating, which is calculated by determining whether a teacher's students made greater gains on standardized tests than statistical models would have predicted.

This «nonreportable score» will surely be reported in your cumulative record, downloaded into the school data - storage system, and shared with whatever agencies are entitled to or can gain access; it is not honest to call it «nonreportable.»]

Prior to 2013, when Common Core testing was introduced, New York students had posted much larger gains on the local state tests than on national tests, calling into question how valid test score gains were during the Bloomberg administration.

Until last year's flat scores, the city was experiencing gains of up to 7 points and 8 points a year, a trend the schools chief called «extraordinary» for a large, urban district.

FICO also introduced a new score in 2001 called the NextGen score, which failed to gain traction and is no longer used.