Sentences with phrase «cognitive test scores at»

find that the Tulsa state - funded «universal» pre-K program, compared to Tulsa's Head Start programs, has about twice the immediate effects on cognitive test scores at kindergarten entrance.

That 2005 Economic Journal study of American women who returned to work within 12 weeks showed that infants whose mothers went back even earlier were likely to have more behavioral problems and lower cognitive test scores at age 4.

In Table 4, we give fully adjusted associations of any and exclusive breastfeeding with all cognitive test scores at ages 3 and 7 years.

Not exact matches

Studies show that children who eat breakfast at the start of their school day have higher math and reading scores, and demonstrate a sharper memory and faster speeds on cognitive tests.

They found that the babies of nursing moms who had consumed at least one alcoholic drink each day did not differ in measures of cognitive development from babies of teetotaling moms, but that they did score lower on tests of motor skills.

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.

Estimated cognitive test mean score differences according to breastfeeding status at age 6 months are given in Table 5.

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

What's more, a follow - up study found that more typical brain responses correlated «with near perfect accuracy» with higher scores on a range of cognitive tests at age 4, and even higher scores at age 6, Kuhl says.

A 2002 study conducted by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine found that elderly patients who consumed the highest levels of selenium had higher cognitive test scores than those who consumed the lowest levels of the element.

A compelling way to see this is to look at the relationship across schools between the average test - score gain students make between the 4th and 8th grade and our summary measure of their students» fluid cognitive ability at the end of that period (see Figure 2).

Fluid cognitive skills are also related to the rate at which students improve their test - score performance over time.

• Each year of attendance at an oversubscribed charter school increased the math test scores of students in the sample by 13 percent of a standard deviation, a roughly 50 percent increase over the progress typical students make in a school year, but had no impact on their fluid cognitive skills.

While it's certainly true that test scores can tell us something important about a teacher, what is troubling for the test - score types is that it looks like (1) non-cognitive scores are better predictors of later life success (completing high school, taking the SAT, and going to college) and (2) that it is not the same set of teachers that is good at raising both cognitive and non-cognitive measures.

Using data from a variety of sources, including the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the High School and Beyond study, and the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, Jacobsen and his colleagues at Mathematica essentially confirm Neal and Johnson's findings, providing additional evidence that most of the remaining wage gap is due to differences in cognitive skills, as measured by test scores.

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

She analyzed data on four variables for the children: reading and math test scores; a measure of behavioral problems; and a measure of home environment, which looked at levels of cognitive stimulation and emotional support.

The primary outcome measure will be scores on the self - report version of the SDQ, a measure of psychopathology in young people with excellent psychometric properties25 and test — retest reliability.26 One previous pilot study has investigated the effect of cognitive training on psychopathology in at - risk young people using the SDQ.19 According to this study, there was a between - group effect size of 0.36 for the SDQ.

Results from global and verbal scores of cognitive tests at military conscription (mandatory for all Swedish men during these years) were compared between three groups (born 1968 — 1976): 746 adoptees born in South Korea, 1548 adoptees born in other non-Western countries and 330 986 non-adopted comparisons in the same birth cohort.

Each test was made generation - fair for G2 by replacing outdated words such as «muslin» with words of comparable difficulty.5 For each generation, scores from these tests were standardized to a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1, summed to create a total score representing overall cognitive ability at 8 years, then re-standardized.

Studies suggest that breastfed children are significantly less likely than are their bottle - fed peers to be obese; develop asthma; have autoimmune diseases, such as Type 1 diabetes; and be diagnosed with childhood cancers.7 Moreover, infant feeding practices appear to be associated with cognitive ability during childhood: Full - term infants who are breastfed, as opposed to bottle - fed, score three to six points higher on IQ tests.8 Family support providers can influence the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding by promoting, teaching, and supporting nursing; states can maximize potential benefits by tracking how many mothers start and continue breastfeeding for at least three months.