Sentences with phrase «grade the equivalent of»

I've advocated, for example, paying kids in 7th through 12th grade the equivalent of what they would make working at McDonald's if they take math and science and get a B or better.

Not exact matches

At the 98m mark, a 13m intersection was encountered grading 0.10 % Cobalt, 0.41 % Copper and 0.10 g / t Gold giving a copper equivalent grade of 1.12 %

This included a 4m intersection grading 0.51 % Cobalt, 0.46 % Copper and 0.16 g / t Gold translating to a very significant copper equivalent grade of 3.64 %.

Other significant hits include 24m grading 0.15 % Cobalt, 0.23 % Copper and 0.09 g / t Gold from the 73m mark for a copper equivalent grade of 1.17 %.

Other hits included 4m grading 0.30 % Cobalt, 0.44 % Copper and 0.14 g / t Gold translating to a copper equivalent grade of 2.33 % from 157m.

A solid 18m hit with a Copper equivalent grade of 1.23 % was encountered 62m down hole and a sizeable 40m intersection with a Copper equivalent grade of.82 % was discovered at the 56m mark.

And most people end up being content with the performance equivalent of a passing grade — never exceeding what their job requires as a minimum.

The grades also look good, with a zinc equivalent of more than 8 % in the areas they have already drilled.

That large bid / ask spread is equivalent to almost two years of the spread advantage of illiquid (as measured by bid / ask spread) investment - grade bonds, creating a large hurdle for providing a liquidity premium.

To manage the risk exposure, the Company invests cash, cash equivalents and short - term investments in a variety of fixed income securities, including short - term interest - bearing obligations, including government and investment - grade debt securities and money market funds.

The Northern portion of the project (Dana North), not including the new high - grade Pine Zone, hosts an additional 24 million tonnes of palladium equivalent.

• In a somewhat hostile article on Pope Benedict in the influential German weekly Der Spiegel» roughly the German equivalent of Time, if Time were written about four grades higher» the writer speaks of the Evangelical Christians in Latin America «multiplying there like the loaves and fishes in Canaan.»

His mother never encouraged Dwight to read the Bible, and he only acquired the equivalent of a fifth - grade education.

Nurse - midwives demonstrated with a high grade level of evidence a lower rate of cesarean sections, lower apgar scores, lower labor augmentation, lower episotomy rates, equivalent low birthrates, lower vaginal operative deliveries, less use of labor analgesia and epidurals, and lower rates of third - and fourth - degree perineal lacerations.

Missing an hour of sleep, for elementary school kids, causes a drop in performance equivalent to one grade level.

Scores reported will offer a grade equivalent score, but also percentile and stanine rankings for each of the individual test sections.

It was announced on Wednesday that Felder secured some $ 200,000 in discretionary funds for «education access» programs for Agudath Israel, the lobbying force that helped fight state efforts to impose instructional standards on yeshivas... What secular education young boys receive typically ends at the equivalent of about seventh grade, with only minimal English and reading studied after that.

The city inspections are currently not made public, which Peralta says prompted his bill that would require the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to convert the existing health inspections into the letter grade equivalent.

This could end up creating the equivalent of motorway grade roads through the Stonehenge landscape, the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the South Downs National Park and across the Pennines.

La Granja in Peru has targeted mineralisation of 4 to 8 billion tonnes at a copper equivalent grade of 0.5 per cent (a non-JORC compliant Rio Tinto estimate).

The new regulations will require all students first entering ninth grade in or after September 2016 to earn four units (years) of credit in social studies, including two units of credit in global history and geography, in addition to the current requirements of one unit of credit in U.S. history, one half unit of credit in participation in government, and one half unit of credit in economics (or their equivalent).

They took account of psychiatric history and they also looked more closely at the difference in suicidal behaviour in women who had been diagnosed with cervical cancer or a precursor to cervical cancer (the equivalent of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3, or CIN3).

The team measured compressive stress in the drop's head equivalent to more than 4000 times atmospheric pressure — making it as strong as some grades of steel.

For students with severe or «high» astigmatism, getting and wearing glasses may bring an improvement in reading fluency equivalent to one - half grade level, according to the report by Erin M. Harvey, PhD, and colleagues of The University of Arizona, Tucson.

Studies suggest that 1 cup of matcha may provide the antioxidant equivalent of 3 cups of regular green tea and as much as 137 times more antioxidants than low - grade green tea.

So when the B - grade bon mots start flying, it's the moral equivalent of a relatively gory but unspectacular beheading from a serial killer.

Volume 1 gives us the entire first U.K. season (the third season just started running in England), with one interconnecting, ongoing story strung across nine 45 - minute episodes, each of which takes the perspective of one of a gang of friends, students at a Bristol sixth - form college (roughly equivalent of the upper grades of an American high school and the beginnings of a postsecondary education).

Aligned with 6th grade Math TEKS Students will practice: Solving One Step Equations Math TEKS 6.10 A Exponents and Integer Operations Order of Operations Math TEKS 6.7 A Finding Percents, Parts, and Wholes Math TEKS 6.5 B Equivalent Numbers Math TEKS 6.4 G Area of Polygons Math TEKS 6.8 D These are perfect for an easy review day or for substitutes.

This is the equivalent of giving students feedback along with a grade — the feedback (the key, differentiated component meant to move the recipient forward) is mostly ignored.

For example, at the start of each school year in Australia, the achievement levels of students in each grade vary by the equivalent of five or six years of school.

• Work with client schools to administer NAEP (or some other matrix - based test aligned to the standards) to 2,000 students each year in key grade levels; use their performance to set the curve for the summative test (think of this as «Curriculum NAEP,» the equivalent of the current state NAEP testing).

This is an interactive lesson for year 4 or third grade learners in which they will be able to recognise and show families of common equivalent fractions, using diagrams.

Examining longer - term effects, however, the study's authors found that double - dosed students» scores on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade) were 0.15 standard deviations higher, the equivalent of closing roughly 15 % of the black - white achievement gap.

Nevertheless, studies have found that, after controlling for the size and structure of the school and the social background of its students, schools in provinces with external exams taught their students a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent more math and science by 8th grade than comparable schools in provinces that did not give curriculum - based external tests.

An advanced matching algorithm will allow students to quickly and accurately identify contestants of equivalent grade level and skill.

This objection also applies to several popular methods of standardizing raw test scores that fail to account sufficiently for differences in test items — methods like recentering and rescaling to convert scores to a bell - shaped curve, or converting to grade - level equivalents by comparing outcomes with the scores of same - grade students in a nationally representative sample.

It found that by the age of 16, the equivalent of two years more education had helped boost their grades by almost two thirds of a grade at GCSE.

Whether it's the SAT, APs or end - of - grade testing, teachers race to re-impart all the knowledge covered, parents dump boulder - sized practice books onto the dining room table, and students who were happily coasting along become acutely aware that the academic equivalent of Judgment Day is nigh.

Further, Hiebert said that the unique words introduced at the beginning of grade one in 2007 are equivalent to the type of words children were introduced to in their last units of the school year in 1962.

Using the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) as our measure, we found some states had raised the achievement of economically disadvantaged students the equivalent of a full grade level or more in just eight years, 2003 - 2008 — this at grades four and eight and in reading and math.

This «grade - level equivalent» provides a rough idea of how much a typical student learns during one school year.

A change in the historical Catholic population share that produces a 10 - percentage - point increase in the extent of contemporary private school competition generates an improvement of about 5.5 percent of a standard deviation in both science and reading — or more than one - fifth of a grade - level equivalent in these subjects.

- Clue 5: Equivalent Ratios - A suspect declaration sheet - Answer sheets, plus a color coded guide to the elimination process - Printable awards Available for other grades with different skills / levels of difficulty.

Regarding KS4 results, the school must publish on its website the percentage of pupils who achieved grade C or above in GCSEs (or equivalent) in five or more subjects, including English and maths.

[T] he summer loss equaled about one month on a grade - level equivalent scale, or one tenth of a standard deviation relative to spring test scores.

A typical student would be expected to gain one grade equivalent for each year of school.

I went to a suburban school where everyone assumed they would go to college — like it was the equivalent of 13th through 16th grade — and continue on to a white - collar career.

Students can lose the equivalent of up to two months of grade - level math and science skills over the summer if they don't keep their brains active, according to Project Lead the Way.

For instance, the change in MAP - R or MAP - M scores for a student at the beginning of the second and third grades could be compared to that student's school peers (equivalent to your average scale score comparison if I understand correctly), district peers, and national peers to evaluate the rate of academic growth.

Goldhaber (2015) summarized this research and noted that in upper elementary grades (under NCLB, required tests begin in third grade), having a lower - performing teacher (one at the 30th percentile of teachers) is roughly equivalent to a student learning half as much in the school year compared to having a higher performing teacher (one at the 70th percentile of teachers).