Sentences with phrase «effect on your score at»

I think as long as you don't carry a balance and you don't tend to max out your credit limit, you shouldn't see any negative effect on your score at all.

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The bottom line: «What Gibson and Shrader found was that sleep has a definite effect on productivity, which in turn might affect worker wages (the more productive you are at work, the more likely you either score a raise or get compensated with tips).»

The young Arsenal striker Yaya Sanogo may not have scored against Hull City in the famous FA cup final triumph at Wembley back in May, but there is little doubt that he did have a big effect for the Gunners after coming on with around half an hour of normal time left to play.

Not surprisingly some players wilted under the combination of all these pressures and its effects were noticeably severe on the form and confidence of those at the sharp end of action — our 3 main strikers — Giroud, Walcott and Alexis — who suffered a sort of collective ED in front of goal and when a team can't score goals — the pressure of all this got to them, and spread throughout the team, and affected our results particularly at home.

A knock - on effect of that is potentially seeing Rashford play less, but given he's already made 36 appearances in all competitions so far this season, scoring 10 goals and providing eight assists, it's difficult to really get on board with Redknapp's assertion that the 20 - year - old should be concerned for his future at Old Trafford.

I mean, if the Thunder hit shots at their normal rate to score a few more points and win, that doesn't have any effect on Mitchell's efficiency.

40 % reduction in the number of children under - 5 who are stunted Direct evidence for a link between exclusive breastfeeding and stunting is not currently available at the systematic review level, though a 2015 systematic review and meta - analysis of intervention studies assessing the effect of breastfeeding promotion interventions on child growth found no significant effect on length or height z scores.

«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

The effect of punicic acid on hydration and the skin barrier is a mystery, making pomegranate seed oil a mystery too, but it's at least safe for experimentation, with little oleic acid and a comedogenicity score of just 1 out of 5.

The voice acting is perfect, the sound effects spot - on, and the score at times both ominous and uplifting.

EXTRAS: In addition to an audio commentary by director Travis Knight, there's a series of featurettes on making the film (from animating the monsters and water effects to composing the score), a closer look at the Japanese inspiration for the story and more.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

How well you manage to complete your objectives determines the ranking you earn at the end of a mission, and everything, from the number of times you're spotted to the number of casualties you cause along the way, has an effect on your score and the rewards you earn.

Though released on CD, O'Hara's complete score is isolated on the DVD, but is affected by the familiar volume changes at certain moments, and a few sound effects manage to sneak into some good tracks towards the end.

Hopefully, future editions of CER's scorecard will take a closer look at the effect of the regulations that some STC laws impose on schools, as well as clean up some minor scoring issues [*].

We use common statistical procedures to estimate the effect on math and reading test scores of each additional year of actual attendance at a charter school.

Teacher specialization, a model in which teachers specialize in certain subjects and teach them to a rotating group of students, has a negative effect on student scores, attendance, and behavior in an elementary school setting, according to a new working paper by Fryer, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Dan Koretz, Reporters Roundtable on High Stakes Testing Bloomberg, 4/26/13 «Dan Koretz, professor and director of the Education Accountability Project at Harvard University, John Merrow, PBS education correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbia.»

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

After analysts at the National Center on Performance Incentives (NCPI) reported no positive effects on student test scores, the Dallas Morning News declared the program a failure.

The negative effect of black students on white students» own scores is largest in cohorts that are at least 33 percent black.

But most voucher studies are able to look only at the short - term effects on parental satisfaction and student test - score performance.

Specifically, I examine whether the effects on age - 11 test scores can be detected when the students are tested again at age 14, three years after the students have left the primary school.

This effect is as large as the average difference in exam scores for two students whose cumulative GPAs at the start of the semester differ by 0.17 grade points on a standard 0 — 4.0 scale.

One way to estimate the possible size of peer effects at KIPP is to combine our findings with other research on how peers» prior scores affect student achievement.

In contrast, career - ladder teachers at the master level did not have a statistically significant effect on math scores (see Figure 2).

Second, by comparing students in Florida schools graded «F» on accountability and subject to increasing sanctions with almost identical schools scoring just above at «D», David Figlio and Cecilia Rouse find positive effects of school accountability.

Figure 1, below, shows measures of test - score impacts, starting with the four studies at the top, and then effects on test scores from previous studies, roughly in reverse historical order.

The study takes pains to look at alternative matching approaches and different ways to estimate effects on test scores.

At the individual school level, with a few exceptions such as the large HCZ, there are less data on school test score effects and attainment effects.

Our use of annual gain scores provides an estimate of treatment effects based on the extent to which students at each school do better or worse than would be expected, given their initial test scores.

Indeed, the social scientists» brief rather cautiously claims the existence of any benefit at all, describing the «positive impact» as «modest,» id., at 13, acknowledging that «there appears to be little or no effect on math scores,» id., at 14, and admitting that the «underlying reasons for these gains in achievement are not entirely clear,» id., at 15.11

Research by Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer demonstrates that the impact of attending an HCZ charter middle school on students» test scores is comparable to the impressive effects seen at high - performing charter schools such as the Knowledge Is Power Program (known as KIPP schools).

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Boston, pre-kindergarten programs demonstrate impressive outcomes that include positive effects on math scores, grade retention, and chronic absenteeism at the end of grade 8; increased achievement on language arts, literacy, math, and science, as well as decreased grade retention and special education placement at the end of grade 5; and stronger than typical impacts on academic readiness (effect sizes in the 0.4 — 0.6 range) at school entry.

If I had to bet on which intervention is most likely to work at scale, I'd be inclined to bet on a massive data set that found positive effects on test scores rather than a very narrow data set of three studies where only two study found higher degree attainment.

To assess the spillover effect of charter schools on students at district schools, I analyze how individual students» test scores, attendance, and grade progression change in response to exposure to a charter school.

Like the Cook research on behavior, the Rockoff and Lockwood study finds that the negative achievement effect on children who moved into middle school «persists at least through 8th grade, the highest grade for which we could obtain test scores.»

When I look within a three - mile radius, I find no evidence of spillover effects on test scores of students at district schools, positive or negative.

By this they mean the pupils who do not achieve as expected at GCSE due to «illness, bereavement, or referral to alternative provision» who have a «disproportionately negative» effect on a school's overall score.

Episode Info: Instead of just looking at the effect teachers have on the test scores of their students, researchers have expanded their focus to include the impact of teachers on student attendance and the long run outcomes of their students.

Gormley finds that Tulsa's pre-k program has significant effects on test scores at kindergarten readiness for all three groups.

I hope someone is keeping score on the damage that Pryor has done to education in Connecticut and at some point we can effect a trade of Malloy, Pryor, Finch, and Vallas for a tenth round draft choice and a free trip to Starbucks.

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).

With a significant jump in scores still needed to ensure that all students perform at or above the proficient level on the NAEP assessment, it remains to be seen what effect, if any, the 2011 NAEP science results have on the development of the NGSS.

Sometimes districts make the mistake of saying, «Let's see if overhauling the HR department has an effect on student test scores,» when that link is tenuous at best, even using state - of - the - art statistical methods.

It turns out that the quality of state standards is not related to past gains in student achievement, the levels at which states set past proficiency standards did not make a difference in achievement, and standards have little effect on the variation on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores both within and among states.

When looking at the percent of students in one grade who achieved math proficiency on their state test at a given school, ST Math had an average effect size of 0.36 on statewide ranking (z - score).

High school graduation rates are at an all - time high at over 80 percent (see Chapter 1: Student Achievement).7 8 9 Research on NCLB's accountability provisions has shown modest effects on school performance, particularly in schools seeking to avoid a first year of missing AYP or in schools facing the severest penalties.10 Despite this progress, however, high school test scores are flat, achievement gaps persist, and many low - performing schools are not improving.

Looking at subgroups, TFA had a small but significant positive effect on reading scores in grades pre-K — 2.

Our preferred models suggest that the combined average effects on test scores of investments in both programs at 2009 funding levels are equivalent to two to four months of instruction in grade 3.