Sentences with phrase «declines in scores from»

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We have seen a significant decline in the number of Chinese students who send their scores to America — from 75 % to 66 %.

But in an environment rife with the fallout from ongoing civil wars in the Middle East, threats of global terrorism, civil unrest and territorial disputes in Asian waters, many cities have seen their livability scores decline.

Chinese cities, for example, saw slight declines in their livability scores due to the ongoing territorial disputes taking place in the South China Sea, which has seen military escalation from several countries.

* Puzzlingly — in view of huge decline in goal scoring away from home this season — when we make the same comparison between the 2 seasons for our home games we see that we manage to increase the number of goals we scored from 2.05 to 2.81 goals per game.

I realise this is a crude numerical perspective and the figures can be misconstrued but my instincts are to conclude that a decline in performance this season is down to our away performances and the most bleedin obvious explanation for this is the decline in our inability to score goals away from home — with the exception of the 5 away games played so far this year — where we see it is the number of goals conceded away from home that is the main problem.

Well your righ with met spend but in amount paid out for players no net were 5th but i agree our champions league performances have been poor we had some tough draws and the premier league is more demanding then the other leagues in strwnght of competition and games played still excuses do nt win but that monaco loss left me shaking my head in cl we get theough the group but cant muster the strength needed for knockout and we should be performing better were under performing for the talent xhaka has frustrated me hes got the talent and plays well but cant hold focus in games he drops off and loses his marks our academy is doing well but yes it is tougher now to break in to the first team iwobi has done well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the decline

Well, for one it's a great word, for two, Saponara has seen a dramatic decline in his play from last season, one in which he seemed like Italy's next great # 10, scoring five goals and dishing out an impressive 11 assists, all while averaging over two key passes, two dribbles and two shots per match, a feat no one on Roma managed last season.

And, when research uses standardized tests to measure homework's impact, she continued, it is difficult to gauge how much of the overall improvement or decline in test scores is due to student learning in the classroom context as opposed to student learning from homework.

Over the last several months, discussions of the Common Core State Standards have been eclipsed by the public's reaction to major issues which have arisen in their implementation — issues such as declining student test scores, and the role of such test scores in teacher evaluations, evaluations mandated if a state was to receive its share of federal money from the «Race to the Top» funds.

In a study including 150 military veterans with chronic low back pain, researcher Dr. Erik J. Groessl and his team from the VA San Diego Healthcare System found that veterans who completed a 12 - week yoga program had better scores on a disability questionnaire, improved pain intensity scores, and a decline in opioid usIn a study including 150 military veterans with chronic low back pain, researcher Dr. Erik J. Groessl and his team from the VA San Diego Healthcare System found that veterans who completed a 12 - week yoga program had better scores on a disability questionnaire, improved pain intensity scores, and a decline in opioid usin opioid use.

«In contrast, students with poor grades and test scores suffered from a decline in positive emotions and an increase in negative emotions, such as math anxiety and math boredoIn contrast, students with poor grades and test scores suffered from a decline in positive emotions and an increase in negative emotions, such as math anxiety and math boredoin positive emotions and an increase in negative emotions, such as math anxiety and math boredoin negative emotions, such as math anxiety and math boredom.

For example, on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a widely used questionnaire in which a score of 19 or above indicates major depression, women in the study group saw their depressive symptoms decline from an average of 27 at the beginning of therapy to 9.6 eight months after the program concluded.

Both groups started out with scores of around 11, and were balanced in terms of ADT exposure; but while the yoga group's score ended up largely unchanged from baseline, the non-yoga group saw a decline over the course of treatment.

Similar to what is found in adults with schizophrenia, for the subgroup of subjects with pre-illness scores, there was an initial steep decline in IQ, from about 2 years prior to 1.7 years after onset of psychotic symptoms.

Decline in cognitive test scores over 10 years (% change = change / range of text × 100) as function of baseline age cohort in men and women, estimated from linear mixed models.

HAMD scores declined from 24.52 to 15.97 in the lower - dose group and dropped from 23.79 to 16.72 in the higher - dose group.

It's a bit hard to say who's a Common Core state and who's not at this point, but if we take the average score change from 2015 to 2017 in the seven decidedly non-CCSS states in both subjects (Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia), we see that these states declined by about 1.4 points on average across tests.

We draw on a new Urban Institute report to show, first, how to make more responsible comparisons across states and, second, that the declines in NAEP scores from 2013 to 2015 are unlikely to be explained by shifts in student demographics.

On the mathematics literacy section, the U.S. even notched its lowest score to date at 470; this represents a decline from the previous two tests, but it is not statistically significantly different from its first - ever score in 2003.

In Florida, average math scores in fourth and eighth grade rose from 2015; in 10 other states, they declineIn Florida, average math scores in fourth and eighth grade rose from 2015; in 10 other states, they declinein fourth and eighth grade rose from 2015; in 10 other states, they declinein 10 other states, they declined.

The score for children who feel good about school declines from 94 per cent in Year 3 to 84 per cent in Year 9.

Conversely, to take another example, evidence from a district in Norfolk, Virginia, shows that resegregated schools led to a decline in the achievement test scores of children of all races.

The mathematics literacy score of 470 represented a statistically significant decline of 11 scale score points from the 481 scored in 2012, but U.S. performance in all three subjects — math, reading, and science — was not statistically significantly different from how the nation performed when each subject was first administered.

In reading, the observed gain declined from 3.1 to 1.6 percentile points, but it still represented 29 percent of the black - white test - score gap in reading (see Figure 2In reading, the observed gain declined from 3.1 to 1.6 percentile points, but it still represented 29 percent of the black - white test - score gap in reading (see Figure 2in reading (see Figure 2).

The latest results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress, released today, show Kentucky's students with: A declining average scale score in fourth grade reading compared to 2015 No significant change in eighth grade reading, fourth grade mathematics...

Similar problems (e.g., declining test scores, weak follow - through with a district professional learning communities initiative) might result from different contributing conditions in different schools.

Reading over the summer has the potential to prevent a decline in reading achievement scores from the spring to the fall, even the small step of reading one book can be beneficial;

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sincescores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sinceScores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

If we look at students» critical reading scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) from 2002 to 2009, during the time NCLB has been in effect, we see a slight increase in points for several years, followed by a decline to below the average score for 2002 (Gewertz, 2009).

The estimates from the experiment imply that if a student attended a middle school with an incentive in place for three years, his / her math test scores would decline by 0.138 of a standard deviation and his / her reading score would drop by 0.09 of a standard deviation.

They went down - reading scores declined from 38.52 % in ’08 to 29.20 % in ’09 and it's math scores went from 33.33 % to 29.02 %.

This includes the ever - woeful South Carolina, whose reading and math proficiency targets declined from an A to a D +, according to Education Next «s analysis; the Palmetto State claimed that 54.9 percent of fourth - graders scored «exemplary» or its version of proficient and advanced levels in 2011, even though NAEP shows that only 36 percent of fourth - graders were performing that well.

Declines in reading scores were less significant — students dropped from the 50th percentile to the 46th percentile after a year in private school — but still apparent.

«While progress on the NAEP continues to vary among the states, all eight states that had implemented the state - crafted Common Core State Standards at the time of the 2013 NAEP assessment showed improvement in at least one of the Reading and / or Mathematics assessments from 2009 to 2013 — and none of the eight states had a decline in scores.

Thirty - nine percent of fourth - graders attending urban schools scored Below Basic in 2011, a one point drop from the levels four years ago; while the percentage of rural fourth - graders who were functionally illiterate declined from 31 percent in 2007 to 29 percent in 2011.

And while 8th graders with disabilities have done better in math than the national average they're on a pretty steep decline path, and this year their scores weren't statistically different from their peers nationally.

Baron notes that the magnitude of the decline in student performance is nearly the same magnitude of the increase in test scores that studies have found come from a reduction in class size of eight students.

After a startling 20 - point decline from a solid C at 72.4 in 2013 to a D at 52.8 in 2014, the school is expected to slip another point or two when the 2015 scores are released.

Teaching needs to move to a more abstract form I say its the school boards fault because that have the Data of the test scores its been in decline since the 80s This could have been prevented from happening if Proper action was taken.

A group of researchers found that, although students» growth in passage comprehension remained close to average from first through fourth grade, their spelling scores dropped dramatically by third grade and continued to decline in fourth grade (Mehta et al., 2005).

As per an email I received earlier today from Bruce (i.e., Sheri's husband / attorney who prosecuted her case), the Court otherwise «declined to make an overall ruling on the [New York growth] rating system in general because of new regulations in effect» [e.g., that the state's growth model is currently under review]... [Nontheless, t] he decision should qualify as persuasive authority for other teachers challenging growth scores throughout the County [and Country].

David Whitman, in his book «Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner - City Schools and the New Paternalism,» reports that in Chicago, from 2003 through 2006, just three of every 1,000 teachers received an «unsatisfactory» rating in annual evaluations; in 87 «failing schools» — with below average and declining test scores — 69 had no teachers rated unsatisfactory; in all of Chicago, just nine teachers received more than one unsatisfactory rating and none of them was dismissed.

«Research shows that reading 4 to 5 books during the summer can prevent a decline in reading achievement scores from the spring to the fall.»

For example, a national study using data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and 4th - grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading scores documented that losses of librarians are associated with declines or inferior gains in reading scores, while gains of librarians are associated with improved scores (Lance & Hofschire, 2011a).

A decline in your credit score — even a small one — could be enough to warrant a higher rate, or keep you from qualifying at all if your score is teetering near subprime.

This saves you money in interest fees and prevents your credit score from declining when you forget a payment.

«Many veterinarians who would otherwise have to decline business from uninsured and financially or credit score - challenged customers,» Richardson says, «are able to extend credit to them through in - house financing programs.»

The Dead Space franchise has been steadily declining in terms of fan love, with the third title in the series receiving the lowest Metacritic scores from users.

The average Index score among countries in this region declined from 5.0 last year to 4.8 this year.

There were no statistically significant differences in Whiteley - 7 scores at index consultation between patients completing the questionnaires and patients declining to complete at any follow - up times (Mann - Whitney U test, p > 0.086 or higher)(details available from the authors on request).