Sentences with phrase «cognitive achievement tests»

The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests.

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Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

Associations Between Duration of Breastfeeding and Measures of Cognitive Ability, Teacher Ratings of School Performance, Standardized Tests of Achievement, and High School Success After Adjustment for Covariates

Associations Between Duration of Breastfeeding and Measures of Cognitive Ability, Teacher Ratings of School Performance, Standardized Tests of Achievement, and High School Success

They show that the schools that are most effective in raising student test scores do so in spite of the strength of the underlying relationship between math achievement and fluid cognitive skills.

First, we use our entire sample to analyze the extent to which the schools that students attend can explain the overall variation in student test scores and fluid cognitive skills, controlling for differences in prior achievement and student demographic characteristics (including gender, age, race / ethnicity, and whether the student is from a low - income family, is an English language learner, or is enrolled in special education).

Today, many believe that the continuing difference between the earnings of black and white workers is due in good part to differences in their educational achievement, as measured by tests of cognitive ability.

That is, the true test of the predictive power of «noncog» measures is not whether they are correlated with cognitive measures (like achievement scores), but whether they are correlated with later life outcomes.

The fact that grit or other character skills may not be strongly predictive of achievement test results is not surprising if these non-cog measures capture something that is important independently of cognitive ability.

Preliminary Evidence from California's CORE Districts Brookings, 3/17/16 «A growing body of evidence confirms that student skills not directly captured by tests of academic achievement and ability predict a broad range of academic and life outcomes, even when taking into account differences in cognitive skills,» writes Associate Professor Martin West.

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills.

Whereas measurement of academic achievement was given by teachers, measurement of cognitive ability came from standardized tests.

A growing body of evidence confirms that student skills not directly captured by tests of academic achievement and ability predict a broad range of academic and life outcomes, even when taking into account differences in cognitive skills.

Poring over school records, he noted a pattern of significantly higher scores on tests of academic achievement and cognitive ability, including IQ tests, up to four years after the program's end.

Another intervention, Cognitive Acceleration for Science Education (CASE), which targets «general thinking skills,» enabled British schoolchildren to outperform their peers even two years later on achievement tests in science, math, and English.

From January to April, when delivering professional development to help close achievement gaps, in recent years we have focused on strategies such as studying and test taking skills, fluency, vocabulary development, writing and rewriting, and even for some students meta - cognitive strategies to help them understand their own learning process.

The Woodcock - Johnson III (WJ - III) cognitive, a relative to the WJ - III individual achievement test, may also be used.

What were your experiences administering BOTH cognitive and achievement tests?

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At best, achievement tests capture some important aspects of cognitive skills needed in the labor market.

The research, led by Charles Hillman, a professor of kinesiology and community health and the director of the Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory at Illinois, suggests that physical activity may increase students» cognitive control — or ability to pay attention — and also result in better performance on academic achievement tests.

Charles Hillman and Darla Castelli, professors of kinesiology and community health, have found that physical activity may increase students» cognitive control — or ability to pay attention — and also result in better performance on academic achievement tests.

Psychological Evaluations use advanced interviewing techniques as well as a personalized battery of tests to answer questions about your cognitive functioning, academic achievement, social - emotional health, attention and concentration, and development in order to plan for treatment or make decisions that best fit with your strengths and weaknesses.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

These outcomes were most consistent for school achievement and cognitive test scores, and appeared to be sustained into the long term.

These benefits of earnings supplement programs appear to be concentrated in school achievement and cognitive test scores and are sustained in the long term.

For example, in one study, neglected children had a smaller corpus callosum relative to control and comparison groups.8 Compared to their non-maltreated peers, children in another study who experienced emotional neglect early in life performed significantly worse on achievement testing during the first six years of schooling.9 Furthermore, although both abused and neglected children performed poorly academically, neglected children experienced greater academic deficits relative to abused children.10 These cognitive deficiencies also appear to be long lasting.

Psychological and Neuropsychological testing, including cognitive, achievement, personality, and projective measures as well as diagnosis and recommendations

Psychological testing, including cognitive, achievement, personality, and projective measures as well as diagnosis and recommendations

In children who are having school problems, comprehensive psychoeducational testing assesses the child's development background, academic history, psychosocial adjustment and cognitive and achievement skills.

Learning and academic problems — intellectual and cognitive testing, achievement testing (for children and adults)

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

Alongside parents» cognitive support, global measures of the affective quality (e.g., warmth, positivity, responsiveness) of parent - child interactions appear positively related to: (i) preschool children's early academic skills (as measured by tests of language ability and parent - rated school - readiness)(Leerkes et al., 2011); (ii) literacy, mathematics and teacher - rated academic competence in middle childhood (e.g., NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2008); and (iii) academic achievement in adolescence (Jimerson et al., 2000).

Examination of the tests of indirect effects revealed that general cognitive ability at Time 2 (as measured by the Matrix Reasoning task) did not mediate the relation between negative parent - child interaction and academic achievement, B = − 0.01, SE = 0.02, Z = − 0.63, p = 0.53, or the link between parental scaffolding and academic achievement, B = − 0.83, SE = 0.73, Z = − 1.13, p = 0.26.

First, children's sustained attention and impulsivity at age 4.5 years partially mediated the relation between parenting quality (as measured by a composite index of physical and social resources in the home, observer ratings of parental sensitivity and cognitive stimulation) at 4.5 years and children's academic achievement (as measured by performance on standardized reading and mathematics tests) at age 6 (NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003).