Sentences with phrase «cognitive skill levels»

By following these two steps, we were able to aggregate all available scores for each country into measures of average cognitive skill levels for each country.

The first step was to use the 12 PISA and other international math and science assessments, dating back to 1964, to construct an index of cognitive skill levels for a large sample of countries at various points in time.

We therefore took measures of average educational attainment and average cognitive skill levels for as many countries as possible and examined their relationship to the average annual growth rate in the country's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita from 1960 through 2000.

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«They are designed with a primary goal of engendering high levels of immersion, engagement, and enjoyment for the players, -LSB-...] They do not tend to focus on one specific cognitive skill, as exercises usually do, but rather expose players to multiple demands that challenge a broad range of abilities.»

On a cognitive level, growing up in a chaotic and unstable environment — and experiencing the chronic elevated stress that such an environment produces — disrupts the development of a set of skills, controlled by the prefrontal cortex, known as executive functions: higher - order mental abilities that some researchers compare to a team of air - traffic controllers overseeing the working of the brain.

Specifically, pay attention to whether a motor, verbal and cognitive skills are on target for your child's age level.

The Level 6 curriculum will teach you how to promote your child's language, motor, cognitive, and social - emotional skills.

Higher levels of fatty acids in blood samples were associated with improved cognitive development, particularly verbal and fine motor skills.

It appeared that the escalating difficulty of the game trained the test subjects to manipulate the Tetris blocks mentally with such skill that they barely broke a cognitive sweat completing levels that would have utterly confounded them a month earlier.

The computerized part of the treatment was administered to pairs of adults with autism to help improve their neurocognitive abilities, such as attention and cognitive flexibility — which are important precursors to higher - level skills involved in problem - solving, self - regulation and social communication.

It appeared that the escalating difficulty of the game trained the test subjects to mentally manipulate the Tetris blocks with such skill that they barely broke a cognitive sweat completing levels that would have utterly confounded them a month earlier.

They also were significantly more likely than children exposed to low levels to experience attention problems and delays in cognitive and motor skills [PDF].

But they imply that boosting blood levels of estradiol or estrone — even in younger postmenopausal women — may not have a substantial effect on cognitive skills one way or the other.»

«What we found was that training higher - order cognitive skills can have a positive impact on untrained key executive functions as well as lower - level, but also important, processes such as straightforward memory, which is used to remember details.

Increased serotonin levels in the striatum are known to increase cognitive and social control and also reduce aggression whereas low levels are linked with underdeveloped social skills.

However, in addition to their very extroverted natures, as adults Williams patients also possess unusually adept language skills given their level of general cognitive abilities.

Poor sleep affects your health, energy levels, mood, focus, motivation, logical reasoning, your memory and overall cognitive skills.

Jobs that require high levels of both cognitive skills and social skills have seen the highest levels of employment and wage growth over that time period.

Put differently, our evidence indicates that effective schools help their students achieve at higher levels than expected based on their fluid cognitive skills.

Effective schools help students achieve at higher levels than one would expect, based on their cognitive skills, a recent study finds, rather than enhancing students» core abstract - reasoning capabilities.

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Higher - level cognitive and affective skills can not readily be assessed using traditional assessment strategies and more authentic e-assessments are being proposed (Kuh, Jankowski, Ikenberry, & Kinzie 2014; Crisp, Guàrdia & Hillier, 2016).

The «threshold» hypothesis states that there is a threshold level of linguistic competence in the native language that all children must attain in order to avoid cognitive disadvantages, while the «developmental interdependence» hypothesis holds that the development of skills in a second language is facilitated by skills already developed in learning the first language.

In a classroom this means higher levels of achievement, potential cross-ethnic friendships, life - long interaction, enhanced communication and cognitive skills, and critical thinking.

Specifically: «The level of cognitive skills of a nation's students has a large effect on its subsequent economic growth rate.

Most of the current research is at the granular, curricular level, focusing on the particular cognitive skills and there exists little by the way of international comparative case studies that looks at the processes by which a balance of cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal skills are developed in students.

A more direct measure of a country's human capital is the performance of students on tests in math and science, something that might be called the average level of «cognitive skills» among those entering a country's work force.

The more open the economy, the more important it is that a country's students are acquiring high levels of cognitive skills.

Further, once the impact of higher levels of cognitive skills are taken into account, the significance for economic growth of school attainment, i.e., additional years of schooling, dwindles to nothing (see Figure 3).

The level of cognitive skills of a nation's students has a large effect on its subsequent economic growth rate.

We thought it possible that the effect of cognitive skills could be the result of the presence in our sample of East Asian countries, most of which have both high levels of cognitive skill and rapidly growing economies.

Instead, its level of cognitive skills is only about average among the developed countries.

Of course, the initial level of economic development, schooling attainment, and cognitive skills are not the only factors that affect economic growth.

To gain additional insight into the relationship between cognitive skills and economic growth, we examined the separate impact of improvements at different levels of a nation's distribution of skills.

The Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity (SCALE) helped evaluate and refine Summit's cognitive - skills rubric, ensuring it was aligned to grade - level competencies and standards.

We wanted to use this new information to compare the economic benefits of higher levels of just school attainment with the benefits of higher levels of cognitive skills.

Yet there is every reason to believe that the single best route to higher levels of cognitive skill is strengthening a country's education system.

Increasing the average number of years of schooling attained by the labor force boosts the economy only when increased levels of school attainment also boost cognitive skills.

We used performance on 12 of these standardized tests as rough measures of the average level of cognitive skill in a given country.

«To prepare our kids for the global digital world, we needed to first raise the level of cognitive demand in our standards, and then we needed to start teaching the skill sets that the corporate members of the partnership — the Microsofts, the Intels, the Ciscos, the Dells, and the Apples — had clearly identified.»

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

Economists Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann concluded that the two tests measure «a common dimension of skills,» and that the scores can be aggregated to form a single national - level indicator of cognitive ability predicting economic growth.6 Psychologist Heiner Rindermann referred to that common dimension as a «g - factor,» standing for general intelligence.

In addition, many jobs did not require a high level of cognitive skill.

According to Deming, positions that require both cognitive and social skills have shown more wage growth in the past few decades than those that require high - levels of mathematical or analytical training but little social prowess.

Each game develops a different set of cognitive skills, and becomes progressively harder as the child masters each level.

Alejandro provides Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools Seminars for skills development, self - directedness, improved collaboration, and increased capacity for individuals and teams to reach greater levels of success.

Vary and control the features of performance assessment tasks, including cognitive level and difficulty, to target different thinking skills.

The idea is to level the playing field in cognitive and social skills by the time these children enter kindergarten so that they can keep pace with their more advantaged peers as they progress through school.

All CFA questions match the specific levels of cognitive rigor in the «unwrapped» concepts and skills (determined by educators through reference to the revised Bloom's Taxonomy and Webb's Depth of Knowledge).