Sentences with phrase «grading scale as»

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In order to come up with 10 names, we included six stocks with debt ratings as low as BBB +, which is still investment grade, albeit at the lower end of the scale.

Investment grade bonds contain «AAA» to «BBB - «(or Aaa to Baa3 for Moody's rating scale) ratings and will usually see bond yields increase as ratings decrease.

Determining the findings took shape as grading systems to which the results were scaled, tallied, and quantified.

Diamonds are another example; they vary too widely in quality to achieve the volumes of scale necessary to sell them as graded commodities.

Gourmet Kona coffee sets the extra fancy standard in Hawaii according to (SCAA) the Specialty Coffee Association of America; coffee which scores 80 points or above on a 100 - point scale is graded as specialty.

A gray - haired, potbellied man with pipe, glasses and a strong resemblance to Santa Claus, Pacileo angered Maradona recently by grading his performance in a game as a 3.5 on a scale of 10.

As Navratilova sat on a bench, sullen but satisfied after wiping out a local player, King asked her to grade herself on a scale of one to 10.

he should refine his grading scale if he has Darnold above Wentz as a prospect.

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

«After developing our scale, data from follow - up testing confirmed that students» engagement scores were positively correlated with indicators of performance, such as good grades and independent learning outside of school motivated by interest.

As an additional service to moviegoers, each film is given a Critics» Choice Rating (on a 1 - 100 scale, 100 being the highest), based on the cumulative grades each film receives in the monthly balloting.

As do many interest groups, the NEA rates lawmakers on an A-F scale, granting higher grades to congressional members whose votes are most frequently aligned with NEA priorities.

It is best thought of as a high grade for «truth in advertising,» telling citizens frankly how well students are performing on an internationally accepted scale, just as states have pledged to do by joining the CCSS consortium.

As can be seen in Figure 1a, states with higher percentages of students from low - income families report lower average scale scores in 8th - grade math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

But if I instead graded my 2006 class on the 1989 scale, only 6 percent would have received As and 21 percent Bs.

If I graded the 1989 class on the 2006 scale, 52 percent would have received As and 26 percent Bs.

New York grades schools on a four - point scale, which, if not as good as the traditional grading system, would be satisfactory were it not for the fact that, in New York, 4 is good, 1 is bad.

By requiring testing in the same grades as in public schools, and by enacting significant consequences for results in larger scale participants, it is designed to identify and grow effective schools, with an acknowledgment that, as in public schools, some schools will have difficulty adjusting to new academic expectations and a small number may prove incapable of ever adequately responding to expectations.

Thus the contract mandates that the math teacher with a Ph.D. who teaches AP calculus is on the exact same pay scale as the 7th - grade gym teacher.

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.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

«Conclusive evidence has shown the benefits of class sizes of 1:15, especially in the primary grades,» says Charles M. Achilles, a professor of educational administration at Eastern Michigan University, in Small Classes, Big Possibilities, an article he penned for The School Administrator: «Since the early, 1980s, a large - scale project in Indiana, a major experiment in Tennessee, numerous smaller studies and evaluations of projects that use low adult - to - student ratios have found that youngsters in small classes (1:15 or so) as compared to youngsters in larger classes

The study's grading system is designed to assess «the degree to which states are accurately informing parents how well their students are doing on an internationally accepted scale,» or what the authors refer to as «truth in advertising.»

These grade descriptions (for each skill + grammar) use the Pearson progression scale as guidance, but it has been re-worded and set up in a more u...

Could such provincialism be corrected by grading all schools on a common, nationwide scale, such as national standards advocates propose?

The average fourth - grade NAEP math score in 2015 was 240 (on a scale of 0 to 500), the same level as in 2009 and down from 242 in 2013.

What started as a subtle flaw in the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test of 3rd grade reading has widened into a full - scale debate with national implications: Is too much riding on one fallible assessment?

ISBE plans to continue to communicate and receive feedback from stakeholders, as necessary, and more information will be coming out regarding IL - EMPOWER, P - 2, Elementary / Middle Grade, College and Career, and Fine Arts indicators, as well as the growth indicator and grading scale.

Students of South Shores participate in intensive arts experiences such as primary grades creative productions, visual art shows, and for over three decades upper grades have put on a full - scale musical production in the campus theater at Cal State University Dominguez Hills, gaining a valuable real life professional theater experience.

Further, a scale score of 320 on a grade 3 English language arts (ELA) assessment does not mean the same thing as 320 on a grade 3 math assessment.

This investigation examined 317 general education kindergarten through fifth - grade teachers» use of instructional and behavioral management strategies as measured by the Classroom Strategy Scale

A scale score of 320 on a grade 4 math assessment does not indicate the same level of performance as a scale score of 320 on a grade 3 math assessment.

So, a scale score of 320 on this year's grade 3 math assessment will mean the same thing as a scale score of 320 on next year's grade 3 math assessment.

The authors found that national NAEP math scale scores for eighth - grade students would go up as much as 8 points if every school had a one - hour later start time.

The average score of Hispanic grade - 8 students was 274, which was 8 points higher than the national average of 266 and statistically the same as the average scale score of 275 for Hispanics in the South.

The state also examines «vertical scale scores;» a rough indicator of the «improvement» from year to year of the same group of children as they progress through grades.

Fortunately, the fourth grade NAEP test uses the same scale as the eighth grade NAEP test, so we can compare them.

So I thought I would take the most recent report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), called «Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto NAEP Scales: Results from the 2013 NAEP Reading and Mathematics Assessments,» and released July 9, 2015, and convert it into something both my mother and my daughter can understand: grade levels, as in the difference between sixth and seventh grade.

In most years, that would grade out as an F on the state's public school grading scale.

The buildings we are proposing as sites for such hubs have the potential to serve more than 1,000 students at scale and satisfy your projected 2017 - 2018 seat need for grades 5 and 6 from the Brooklyn Schools.»

They will take on another area of expertise, and eventually serves as the core group of trainers for scaling to the district's elementary and high school grades.

The new numbering system sets 9 as the highest grade, while 1 is the lowest — however fewer level - 9 grades will be awarded than A * grades have been in the past, in order to provide more differentiation across the top end of the scale.

The grades were calculated on a 15 - point scale, so schools received As if they scored between 85 - 90 and Fs if they scored below 39.

Alternate ACCESS for ELLs is secure large — scale English language proficiency (ELP) assessment administered to students in grades 1 — 12 identified as English learners (ELLs) with the most significant cognitive disabilities who are unable to meaningful participate in ACCESS for ELLs 2.0.

The state's 2017 reading results for fourth grade are statistically the same as the national average scale score of 221.

At grades 8 and 12, the composite scale is affected by the change in the number of subscales, as discussed above.

A base amount of funding is determined for every student in the district and this is then boosted depending on factors such as grade and poverty levels, academic achievement, whether they are learning English, and certain disabilities, on a scale set by the school board.

As a result, a separate scale for reading to perform a task was not estimated in 2009 for grades 8 and 12, and the trend line for this scale ends in 2007.

Second, doing this ASSUMES that all standardized tests are vertically scaled whereas scales increase linearly as students progress through different grades on similar linear scales.

Although there have been no large scale experimental studies done for the middle and upper grades, a there are numerous studies showing that smaller classes are correlated with achievement gains and / or lower dropout rates in the middle and upper grades as well.