Sentences with phrase «highly on achievement tests»

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Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

He was a powerful contributor to Massachusetts» preeminent education achievements and a highly respected leader among chief state school officers nationally,» said Professor Paul Reville, former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, noting Chester's impressive ability to find constructive middle ground on tough issues in the Commonwealth, such as the controversy over assessment tests PARRC and MCAS.

«Students who have highly effective teachers three years in a row score as much as 50 percentile points higher on achievement tests than those who have ineffective teachers for three years in a row.»

Phone call # 4: The mother of a highly gifted girl who does algebra in her head «for fun» and consistently scores four years above grade level on tests of mathematics achievement called to ask me how she could convince the classroom teacher and the gifted coordinator that her young daughter did not need to keep adding and subtracting one - and two - digit numbers with the rest of the third grade class.

The picture is very different in countries that rank highly in both the TALIS survey and in student achievement on international tests.

If «proficient» and «highly proficient» are achievement labels that should be reserved for students likely to go to a four year college or university, then education reform advocates have never effectively made that case to the public, preferring instead to point to the results on state testing that have been designed with this specific result in mind and declaring themselves correct about how poor a job our nation's schools are doing.

All of the models being assessed by the pilot must rely on student test scores and other achievement measures for up to half a teacher's grade, from «ineffective» to «highly effective.»

Because she attends a magnet school for gifted adolescents, scores at the 99th percentile on achievement tests, has an IQ that indicates superior intelligence, is highly creative, and has extraordinary writing ability.

Boys with highly involved fathers in their life receive superior grades and perform a year above their expected age level on achievement tests.