Sentences with phrase «highest average test»

The hours of sleep correlated with highest average test scores are quite similar across the math and reading tests.

Late - term infants outperformed full - term infants in all three cognitive dimensions (higher average test scores in elementary and middle school, a 2.8 percent higher probability of being gifted, and a 3.1 percent reduced probability of poor cognitive outcomes) compared to full - term infants.

The relationship is apparent even among twins; heavier - born twins have higher average test scores in third through eighth grade than their lighter - born twin.

That raises another problem: Since the vouchers often go to students from the lowest - performing public schools, some arrive as much as two and three years behind grade level, Catholic school principals say, threatening to drag down those high average test scores and success rates.

The higher the average test score, the more competitive, and better the program.

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To become a Top Pick, a car must excel at the publication's track tests, offer average or better reliability, perform effectively in government or industry crash tests, and return high owner - satisfaction scores in Consumer Reports» surveys.

«The employees with the highest revenue per hour — an average of $ 208, compared with $ 138 for the full sample — were ambiverts who had a personality test score exactly between extroversion and introversion.»

So were the average GMAT scores of its entering classes, which tended to range near 600, more than 100 points below the best schools, which typically report scores in the 700 - plus range on an entrance test where the highest possible score is 800.

In controlled tests, researchers discovered that when waiters gave customers a small gift (such as a mint), tipping was on average 23 % higher for customers who were surprised by the gesture (source).

We are now monitoring $ FXE for a potential low - risk buy entry point on a pullback, especially if the price action can test the rising 20 - day exponential moving average, along with forming a «higher low.»

On the heels of the proposed tax reform, economic data, and good earnings, the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), and NASDAQ continued to test new all - time highs in 2017.

I haven't got the test but i believe I ll score higher than average and I completely agree that education is the key, unfortunately arogance does not coincide with knowledge.

A recent religious test showed that agnostics and atheists scored much higher on knowledge of the Bible than Christians did and had more education on average.

You get two bites at the cherry, CL then home and away games against the best, also you test your knowledge v the most expensive teams and the highest earning players on average.

Last season the 6» 8 ″ Anthony averaged 27.4 points, 3.1 assists and a career - high 8.1 rebounds per game but has decided to opt out of his contract and test the free - agent market.

Proposal 48 holds that entering athletes can be eligible as freshmen only if they have a minimum score of 700 on the combined college board SAT test (or a 15 of 36 score on the American College Test) and a 2.0 high school grade - point average in 11 core courtest (or a 15 of 36 score on the American College Test) and a 2.0 high school grade - point average in 11 core courTest) and a 2.0 high school grade - point average in 11 core courses.

In most studies, breastfed kids score on average three to five points higher on IQ tests than formula babies, regardless of PUFAs they consume, which Willatts said can't easily be explained.

These high - risk kids then get routinely screened for diabetes, including a hemoglobin A1C test, a test which gives an average reading of blood sugar over a period of weeks to months.

In first - ever tests of new, non-rice infant cereals, Healthy Babies Bright Futures and our partner organizations report that average arsenic levels in infant rice cereals are six times higher than in other infant cereals.

Breastfed babies score an average of 6 points higher on IQ tests than formula fed babies.

Homeschooled students have been shown to have higher average scores on the ACT test (26.5) than their public school peers (25).

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

We tested Persephone Pumpkin in February where the high was an average of 76F (24C) and as warm as 85F (29C).

He said he continues to follow a high school student he met who didn't do well on tests, but had a consistently high grade point average.

Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign reported in 2013 that on average, students who eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests; when combined, these factors translate into a student being twenty percent more likely to graduate high school.

The study showed that the states that spent the most did not have the highest average ACT test scores, nor did they have the highest average graduation rates.

The percentage of children six and under testing positive for high lead levels is more than twice the state average, excluding NYC, according to the report.

That's higher than the state and national averages as well as the water tested in Syracuse and Rome.

Two months ago, the health department revealed that 2,000 blood tests from the wider region, which includes residents who moved away years ago and those not drinking from polluted wells, had blood levels 15 times higher than the national average.

The average person today scores 30 points higher on IQ tests than his or her grandparents did.

Results suggest that while isotretinoin was associated with a change in the average value of some laboratory tests (white blood cell count and hepatic and lipid panels), the average change across a patient group did not meet the criteria for high - risk and the proportion of patients with laboratory abnormalities was low, the authors report.

Her risk for celiac disease was higher than in the average population, so she asked her doctor for follow - up testing, which showed she did have the illness.

The small increase in the high - dose group did not translate into beneficial effects because authors found no difference between the three study groups for changes in spine, average total - hip, average femoral neck or total - body bone mineral density, trabecular bone score, muscle mass or sit - to - stand tests.

Scaled across Titan's 18,688 GPUs, MENNDL can test and train thousands of potential networks for a science problem simultaneously, eliminating poor performers and averaging high performers until an optimal network emerges.

So ecologist Henry Adams, a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona (U.A.) in Tucson, and his colleagues decided to test the effect of higher average temperatures on the pinyon, Pinus edulis.

Those with the highest exposures scored on average 5.3 points lower on a short - term memory test, and 2.7 points lower on an IQ test, than children with the lowest exposures.

On average, blood pressure taken in the O.R. was significantly higher than blood pressure taken during pre-surgical testing or while in a preoperative holding area.

The results reveal that, after a comparison at national level, the vast number of substances tested show a clearly higher average consumption — thus more contaminant emissions — by private households than health care facilities.

In baseline tests, the high - energy ankyrin - G mice usually swam longer, only floating for about 10 seconds of the 200 second test compared to the normal mice that floated about 50 seconds, but after several sessions with the bully mice, the ankyrin - G mice were quick to give up and float, remaining still for well over 100 seconds on average.

Researchers increased temperatures at the test plots by 3.4 degrees C, an increase that might happen by the end of the 21st century, and learned that plants grown and measured at those higher temperatures increased their leaf respiration by an average 5 percent, compared to plants in ambient temperatures.

Testing for those variants can identify men with a risk of the disease that is almost six times higher than average.

All our four study groups had test scores very close to the average, which is reassuring — and shows the high validity of the study.»

Testing for these variants combined with all 21 previously identified using genetic sequencing identified men with a 10-fold higher risk of testicular cancer than the population average.

If a patient tests positive for an abnormal BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene and have never had breast cancer, there is a much higher - than - average risk of developing the deadly disease.

When the researchers compared average cytokine levels in CFS patients versus the healthy control samples, they found that only 2 of the 51 substances they tested for were significantly different: One, called tumor growth factor beta, was higher in CFS patients, while the other, called resistin, was lower.

Vegetarians have the highest markers for glycine deficiency, but tests on the average omnivore also reveal a deficiency.

Also, we find even when her potassium is high (blood test) her pulse is often lower than average (they say high K causes racing heartbeat).

The following 4 diets were tested in this study: 1) a low - fat, average - protein diet (20 % fat, 15 % protein, and 65 % carbohydrate, 2) a low - fat, high - protein diet (20 % fat, 25 % protein, and 55 % carbohydrate), 3) a high - fat, average - protein diet (40 % fat, 15 % protein, and 45 % carbohydrate), and 4) a high - fat, high - protein diet (40 % fat, 25 % protein, and 35 % carbohydrate).

At the beginning of the class, each rider is put through an FTP test (Functional Threshold Power) to determine their highest average power.