Sentences with phrase «high test scores after»

And it is interesting to see sustained high test scores after three years.

Not exact matches

Hard working people who went to top schools, scored high on aptitude tests and had a proven track record of getting results were highly sought after.

I scored in the top 4 % on my GRE, but they test for vocabulary after high school.

Patients who underwent timed intrauterine insemination after the Cap - Score Test had a higher chance of pregnancy than under other treatment regimens for unexplained infertility.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

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.

After eighteen months, the researchers found that people in the first group, those who had exercised choice and control, scored higher on tests measuring activity and happiness compared to individuals in the second group.

The ACT has scheduled a makeup exam on Jan. 14 for 53 students whose answer sheets went missing after taking the test at Roslyn High School in October, which has left them lacking scores to submit on their college applications.

After birth, these babies scored higher on a brain maturation test, although they were more irritable.

After controlling for factors known to influence brain volume and cognitive test scores, such as age and gender, the researchers found that a higher self - reported frequency of game playing was significantly associated with greater brain volume in several regions involved in Alzheimer's disease (such as the hippocampus) and with higher cognitive test scores on memory and executive function.

He had always been an excellent student — he had his 15 minutes of fame after scoring fifth among all high school graduates on Egypt's national college admissions test — and he was determined to succeed in academia.

After earning the fifth highest score in the nation on Egypt's annual college admissions test, Elsayed comes to California and overstays his 6 - month tourist visa.

Meanwhile, a second testing agency, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, has given the Chevrolet Volt a «G,» the highest safety score possible, after side crash tests on the front, side, rear and rollovers.

One 2013 paper found that, more than 7 years after the procedures, open - heart surgery patients scored slightly higher on cognitive tests than did people who underwent less invasive angioplasty, which requires only a local anesthetic.

However, after 24 months of continuous supplementation, the vitamin group scored higher on short - term memory tests.

After a year, the exercise group scored higher on memory tests.

After terrible test scores and some unsuccessful reshoots, Morgan Creek took control of the cut, leading Sheridan to go to the DGA to remove his name from the film (there were some suggestions at the time that the «Alan Smithee» credit could have been revived)-- it's the most high profile recent example of a filmmaker disowning his own film.

Second, districts with lower test scores have higher opt - out rates after taking socioeconomic status into account.

More recently, Princeton economist Cecilia Rouse, after reviewing the research literature, concluded that «the overall impact of private schools is mixed, [but] it does appear that Catholic schools generate higher test scores for African - Americans.»

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

One must have data on school type (charter or public) and test scores of individual students prior to high school, individual - level high school attendance records and exit information, and college attendance after high school.

The study found that after multimedia technology was used to support project - based learning, eighth graders in Union City, New Jersey, scored 27 percentage points higher than students from other urban and special needs school districts on statewide tests in reading, math, and writing achievement.

They do have advantages: 100 percent of their families make an active choice to enroll; their students arrive with slightly higher test scores; and they don't have to accept new students after the school year begins.

The smallest differences after two years were observed in New York City, where the combined test scores of African - American students attending private schools were 4.3 percentile points higher than those of the control group.

[3] Hyman analyzed the test scores and college attendance of all public, high school students in Michigan, before and after the ACT was made universal.

Data from 22,000 children involved in this study of the kindergarten class of 1998 — 99 show that, after controlling for family income, children who attended more academically oriented preschools had significantly higher scores in reading, math, and general knowledge when tested in the fall of their kindergarten year than children in preschool settings without academic content.

The state's highest court ruled 5 - 2 that the ETS failed to weigh relevant information Brian Dalton submitted to explain the 410 - point jump in his scores after he took the Scholastic Aptitude Test a second time in 1991.

Second, Rick thinks there is an inconsistency in my suspicion that test - prep and manipulation are largely responsible for test score improvements by Milwaukee choice schools after they were required to take high - stakes tests, while I interpret research from Florida as showing schools made exceptional test score gains when faced with the prospect of having vouchers offered to their students if scores did not improve.

To construct this figure, we first define the top 5 percent of teachers as «high VA» and the bottom 5 percent as «low VA.» Figure 1 displays average test scores for cohorts of students in the years before and after a high - VA teacher arrives.

Based on their research, they developed the National College and Career Readiness Indicators, a multi-metric index that offers a truer picture of whether students are ready for life after high school than you get from simply looking at standardized test scores.

An earlier evaluation found that after two years, Higher Achievement had statistically significant positive impacts on both math and reading test scores.

On average, the children started out as high achievers but year after year lost ground on the state's standardized tests, according to a Times analysis of scores from the 2002 - 03 through 2008 - 09 school years.

Under Ms. Alexander's leadership, Yu Ying has become one of the most sought after schools in the District of Columbia with its standardized test scores in the among the highest in the city.

District - level data from New York suggest that relatively affluent districts tend to have higher opt - out rates, and that districts with lower test scores have higher opt - out rates after taking socioeconomic status into account

The district's superintendent of seven years, Jeff Travis, told Yahoo News that after years of high test scores, the community expects its students to excel.

(On the other three tests, the children achieved high or perfect scores both before and after.)

Poring over school records, he noted a pattern of significantly higher scores on tests of academic achievement and cognitive ability, including IQ tests, up to four years after the program's end.

After statistically controlling for several variables, the author concludes that nations with some form of merit pay system have, on average, higher reading and math scores on this international test of 15 - year - old students.»

Specifically, after using the tutorial, students in a beginning college algebra course scored significantly higher on a test on solving linear equations.

Race to the Top (RTTT) grants had been awarded after considering whether states would adopt high academic standards, implement prescribed strategies in low ‐ performing schools, and use student test scores to determine the effectiveness of teachers.

Year after year, students continue to post consistently higher math scores on Georgia Milestones testing and other assessments.

The WaPo reporters then claim, «But a U.S. Department of Education study released in June showed that students in the program generally scored no higher on reading and math tests after two years than public school peers.»

Compared to the bigger test prep companies, this is a steal of a deal, especially because the test prep comes with an extraordinary guarantee, too: score higher than a 508 on the MCAT after completing one of the 16 - week courses or you get DOUBLE your money back.

When parents get involved in their children's education, grades go up, test scores go up, children become more likely to pass and to attend better schools after high school, they have fewer discipline problems, and they're less likely to use drugs and alcohol.

Additionally, the Promising Afterschool Programs Study, concluded in 2007, found that disadvantaged students who regularly participate in high - quality after - school programs usually see significant gains in test scores and work habits, as well as a corresponding decrease in behavioral issues in school.

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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).

That report found significant benefits, particularly for high school students: After school participation was associated with higher test scores, and led to much higher rates of grade level progression for students in grades nine to 12.

Education advocates say that, looking beyond test scores, a more accurate measure of success for Workshop, or any other high school, should involve following kids in the years after graduation.

After creating value - added to student attendance, I further investigate how this new dimension of teacher effectiveness influences student high school graduation and dropout above and beyond teachers» impact on student test scores.