Sentences with phrase «early test scores»

Based on available studies of the relationship between early test scores and later earnings, we would also expect the dollar effects of Tulsa pre-K on future earnings for middle - class kids to be 90 % as great.

One paper that Fryer and Levitt wrote suggested that the gap in early test scores between black and white schoolchildren is largely caused by the fact that most black children attend worse schools.

We combined all of the available earlier test scores into a single composite measure of quality and introduced it into statistical models that explain differences in growth rates across nations during the period 1960 to 1990.

To refine the comparison, we account for the slight differences in the observable traits, including earlier test scores, that emerged by chance between lotteried - in and lotteried - out applicants.

Looking at earlier test scores and demographic characteristics, we find no statistically significant differences between the lotteried - in and lotteried - out groups.

Third graders who have good sleep habits have higher grades in 5th grade than other students, after controlling statistically for earlier test scores (Buckhalt, El - Sheikh, Keller, & Kelly, 2009).

The idea, roughly, is that one uses the student's earlier test score as a control for the later, so that one measures learning (that is, change across time) and not just students» absolute performance.

Not exact matches

According to people's scores on multiple - choice vocabulary tests, most of us don't reach our peak wordsmith - ing abilities until we're in our late 60s or early 70s.

A late gift for the holidays — in addition to providing more info on what Quality Score is (as Andrey blogged earlier this month), Google has been conducting a test of showing the Quality Score for your PPC ad keywords inside your AdWords account and some information and screenshots have been posted on DigitalPoint.

The bad news is that Kane is now well and truly over his early season struggles in front of goal and has scored four times in his last two Premier League games and got their Europa League opener last night, Hopefully Laurent Koscielny will pass his fitness test because we will need to be at our defensive best on Sunday to cope with the danger of Kane.

Earlier, SMU had denied Bliss's star recruit, Larry Johnson, now the UNLV star, admission because of questions about his SAT test scores.

Plus, many athletic directors will want to see a glowing transcript and a qualifying standardized test score before they sign off on an early offer.

Students in 4th - 6th grade who went to bed an average of 30 - 40 minutes earlier improved in memory, motor speed, attention, and other abilities associated with math and reading test scores.

Because exam sittings fill up quickly, and tests take several weeks to process, please make sure to register for the exams early enough so that the scores reach us before our deadlines.

During the early school years, children spend a lot of time learning basics like reading and math — fundamental skills necessary for a productive life (not to mention good test scores!).

Children who were breastfed in infancy had significantly higher scores on IQ tests at both ages, even after adjusting for social class and education, confirming the earlier findings and extending them to a predominantly full - term sample.

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.

State lawmakers earlier this year agreed to a package of education policy changes that linked test scores to evaluations as well as in - classroom observation and made it more difficult for teachers to obtain tenure.

Earlier this year, Cuomo pushed for test scores to account for as much as 50 percent of a teacher's assessment.

The state labeled Hughes a «persistently low - achieving» school in early 2010 because of its low test scores, and despite an infusion of state funding and efforts to turn it around, it has not markedly improved, district Chief Academic Officer Laura Kelley said.

Malloy faced backlash from teachers unions earlier this year, due to the Common Core State Standards Initiative and a controversial teacher evaluation system that tied teacher performance to test scores.

Alan Schneider, the head of Suffolk County Civil Service, said he was «shocked» when he saw earlier this year that five provisional employees among 32 Islip residents who took the civil service test — were hired over others who scored higher.

Earlier this week, the Regents passed emergency regulations putting a hold on the use of state test scores on teacher and principal evaluations.

The vote completed a sharp reversal of the state's policy earlier this year, when the Legislature voted to increase the weight of test scores in evaluations.

Earlier work hinted that such children had better communication skills when they were 5 and scored higher on intelligence tests.

Within older adults who scored below the normal benchmark on a dementia screening test, but have no noticeable communication problems, scientists have discovered a new potential predictor of early dementia through abnormal functionality in regions of the brain that process speech (the brainstem and auditory cortex).

«Early retirement incentives for teachers don't hurt — might help — test scores.»

Their findings indicate that although early retirement incentives lead to the replacement of experienced educators with novice teachers, they do not result in reduced test scores.

A study matching newborn glucose concentration screening results with fourth - grade achievement test scores suggests that early transient newborn hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) was associated with lower test scores at age 10, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

North Carolina's investment in early child care and education programs resulted in higher test scores, less grade retention and fewer special education placements through fifth grade, research from the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy finds.

The new research builds on two previous studies that found the two programs benefitted children in early elementary school, boosting third - grade reading and math - test scores and reducing third - grade special education placements.

He found that youth and old age were correlated: nuns whose early writing samples, like the one shown here, had scored in the bottom third for idea density were more likely to perform below normal on cognitive tests.

Failing to correct for the Flynn effect can have even bigger consequences, as courts frequently consider IQ scores using tests introduced more than a decade earlier — meaning scores can be inflated by 3 or more points (see «Life or death ``, below).

In the early 1970s researchers identified a large sample of U.S. 13 - year - olds who were exceptionally talented in math — landing in the top 1 percent of mathematical reasoning scores on SAT tests.

They generated daily activity profiles for 14, 894 university students, and found only 40 per cent of them had body clocks Read more about Early starts for night owls could affect test scores - Scimex

The new system calculates a risk score based on multiple genetic differences, or polygenic risk scores, to predict significantly more cases of early - onset heart disease than standard tests for single genetic disorders.

Early HD was defined as a diagnostic confidence score of 4 on the UHDRS, 13 with a UHDRS total functional capacity score ≥ 7.14 Controls were partners or spouses of mutation carriers or individuals previously at risk for HD with a genetic test negative for the mutation.

Contrary to earlier reports, Fox's Deadpool 2 may have actually scored better than its predecessor at its test screening.

Catherine Snow: Incorporating Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine Snow.

As mentioned earlier, high - stakes testing poses the risk that it may cause teachers and schools to adjust their effort toward the least costly (in terms of dollars or effort) way of boosting test scores, possibly at the expense of other constructive actions.

then it's going to be tough for a single «score report» from a distant state test administered months earlier to convince us otherwise.

Studies of early - childhood and school - age interventions often find long - term impacts on such outcomes as educational attainment, earnings, and criminal activity despite nonexistence or «fade - out» of test - score gains.

Scores on high - stakes tests rose rapidly in states that were early adopters of school accountability, and Texas was no exception.

The second set of data includes school - level information on test scores for certain grades and subjects, collected since the early 1990s as part of Illinois» ongoing accountability program.

31 Cookbooks for kids have fun, healthful recipes; parents sign contracts agreeing to put their children to bed earlier; serving breakfast to everyone raised students test scores; nutrition lessons that can be woven through the curriculum.

«Some supporters of the Act contend that early gains in state test scores mean that the Act is being administered effectively and is succeeding, so no changes are needed.

Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

It has such programs for transportation, reimbursement for high - cost special education students, early - childhood education, literacy programs, kindergarten - development grants, support for students scoring low on state tests (the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), and school construction assistance.

Fewer absences therefore may also explain why later - starting students have higher test scores: students who have an early start time miss more school and could perform worse on standardized tests as a result.

Finally, earlier evaluations of these programs found neutral to positive effects on test scores.