Sentences with phrase «in test score levels»

Regardless of initial differences in test score levels, all schools appear to help their students make similar improvements in reading and math over two years.

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Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

Babies born to mothers who had higher blood levels of DHA scored better on the attention tests until 6 months of age, and they scored better on different tests designed to measure visual learning in older babies at 1 year and 18 months.

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The ten are those who scored highest in Level II [an aptitude test], that was organized on Saturday [October 21] at the British Council in Accra.

The people who were left behind were poor, and poverty is well - known to be strongly correlated to poor test scores and poor educational levels no matter what country you live in.

I am going to run on a message that we created affordable housing, that we improved test scores in our schools, created pre-K and after school programs on an unprecedented level, reduced crime, reduced stop and frisk, created municipal IDs — now close to half a million people have them.»

«I'm going to run on a message that we created affordable housing, that we improved test scores in our schools, created pre-K and after school programs on an unprecedented level, reduced crime, reduced stop - and - frisk, created municipal ID's now close to a half a million people have them,» Mr. de Blasio said.

One third of all kids taking state tests in NYC are scoring at Level 1 As a parent in New York City, I know that some schools here are failing.

The mayor would no doubt say this has brought major results — he most frequently cites an increase in graduation rates, but critics point to indicators that would say otherwise, including relatively flat test scores and the small percentage of city graduates who are prepared to do college level work.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

Children exposed to higher levels of PCBs in the womb, score lower on focus and concentration tests

In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.

For example, in the study on summer school, Matsudaira compared students whose test scores were just above the level that made them eligible for summer school with those who were just below it to see if the extra schooling improved students» test scores.

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In the conventional approach to measuring IQ, a person is given a standardized test, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, and their score on the test is assumed to reflect their level of intelligence (with some amount of random error).

«Strikingly, further analysis showed a strong association between DNA methylation levels of these markers in monocytes and neuropsychological test function, measured using a composite score of multiple cognitive domains,» said Dr. Maunakea, Assistant Professor, Department of Native Hawaiian Health, JABSOM and co-senior author of the study.

Individuals having higher scores were also those who showed a slower rate of decline in cognitive tests, even when other factors, like education level, which could account for the result, were considered.

In a study involving dietary ketosis via a low carbohydrate diet (less than 10 percent of total calories), compared to subjects on a 50 percent carbohydrate diet, the low - carbohydrate subjects demonstrated better performance on memory tests, with higher scores being correlated to higher serum KB levels.14 A study using cultured mouse hippocampal cells showed that addition of the KB β - hydroxybutyrate (β - OHB) to cells exposed to Aβ resulted in no decrease in the numbers of dendrites or total neurons — two of the noted pathological changes in AIn a study involving dietary ketosis via a low carbohydrate diet (less than 10 percent of total calories), compared to subjects on a 50 percent carbohydrate diet, the low - carbohydrate subjects demonstrated better performance on memory tests, with higher scores being correlated to higher serum KB levels.14 A study using cultured mouse hippocampal cells showed that addition of the KB β - hydroxybutyrate (β - OHB) to cells exposed to Aβ resulted in no decrease in the numbers of dendrites or total neurons — two of the noted pathological changes in Ain no decrease in the numbers of dendrites or total neurons — two of the noted pathological changes in Ain the numbers of dendrites or total neurons — two of the noted pathological changes in Ain AD.

In one study, elderly patients with vitamin D deficiency scored lower on cognitive tests than those with adequate levels of the vitamin.

The largest gains for the test — the Kentucky Instructional Results System, or KIRIS — came in reading and mathematics, with fewer students scoring at the «novice,» or lowest, level and more students scoring at the «proficient» and «distinguished» levels.

Ferguson noted that the quality of the teacher (as determined by test scores, level of education, and experience) accounts for 43 percent of the difference in math scores of students in grades 3 to 5.

Sources might include reading and math achievement test scores, IQ scores, benchmark and state test results, and grade level progress in the curriculum.

Because these low - scoring students are either exempted from taking the standardized test, or re-take the same grade - level test two years in a row, the districts test scores appear much higher overall than they actually are.

Gains in student test scores also outpaced previous levels as well as the increases in district scores, he added.

Unfortunately, the United States educates only a little more than 6 percent of its students to an advanced level in math according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a small percentage when compared to the proportion in many other countries that score at a comparable level on the international PISA test.

«Eventually the two schools in our project achieved the third and fourth highest - level mathematics and language arts test scores and the best attendance in the city.»

In the first year of the program, the bonus program boost to math scores was, by our estimates, 3.2 points on the New York state test, or 0.08 student - level standard deviations.

We ran a regression analysis to estimate the relationship between states» absolute and relative poverty levels and student achievement, and the result was clear: absolute poverty is a powerful predictor of achievement, while the relationship between relative poverty and test scores in the U.S. is weak and not statistically significant (see Figure 5).

Even if two students from different colleges score similarly on a given placement test, one may be placed in remediation at her school, while the other passes into regular college - level courses.

The survey found mental disorders affected one in seven students in the previous 12 months and students with mental disorders scored lower on average than students without mental disorders in every test domain and year level.

Rick Hess and Paul Peterson, for example, have compared state cut scores for proficiency on their state tests to results on the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to show that the level of achievement required to be declared proficient in many states has been dropping over the last decade.

In 1998, Florida scored about one grade level below the national average on the 4th - grade NAEP reading test, but it was scoring above that average by 2003, and made further gains in subsequent years (see Figure 1In 1998, Florida scored about one grade level below the national average on the 4th - grade NAEP reading test, but it was scoring above that average by 2003, and made further gains in subsequent years (see Figure 1in subsequent years (see Figure 1).

University of Washington researchers use state test scores, rates of free and reduced lunch, and the number of AP classes that students enroll in to determine the general level of school achievement for comparison.

Among the districts in the data, one standard deviation in percent free / reduced lunch is 21 percentage points and one standard deviation in average test scores is 0.35 student - level standard deviations.

In 1999, Michigan increased the reward for good academic performance by offering the Michigan Merit Award, a one - year $ 2,500 scholarship for any student who scores at Level I or Level 2 on the Michigan Educational Achievement Program (MEAP) tests in reading, mathematics, science, and writinIn 1999, Michigan increased the reward for good academic performance by offering the Michigan Merit Award, a one - year $ 2,500 scholarship for any student who scores at Level I or Level 2 on the Michigan Educational Achievement Program (MEAP) tests in reading, mathematics, science, and writinin reading, mathematics, science, and writing.

This statistically significant difference of -0.23 standard deviations is in the opposite direction of that expected, based on the student - level relationships between self - control and test - score gains displayed above.

We measure FCAT performance using developmental - scale scores, which allow us to compare the test - score gains of all the students in our study, even though they took tests designed for different grade levels.

In addition, if they describe a plan for generating student - level scores as workable, they risk alienating the organized interests in California who relish the prospect of a year without test scores (even if it's not a year a without testing!In addition, if they describe a plan for generating student - level scores as workable, they risk alienating the organized interests in California who relish the prospect of a year without test scores (even if it's not a year a without testing!in California who relish the prospect of a year without test scores (even if it's not a year a without testing!).

Hanushek et al. attribute this widening, in part, to states» differing levels of knowledge capital, measured as workers» educational attainment combined with their test - score performance.

Our estimates indicate that, for each teacher who left under the ERI, test scores increased by 0.01 and 0.04 student - level standard deviations in math and reading, respectively.

With a few exceptions, our analysis sample closely resembles the nation in terms of student demographics (e.g., percentage African American and percentage Hispanic), observed socioeconomic traits (e.g., the poverty rate), and measures of the levels and pre-NCLB trends in NAEP test scores.

Sommers notes that in intelligence tests, the normal distribution for boys spreads out wider at the tails than for girls — more scores at very high and very low levels, which is consistent with what President Summers was suggesting.

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The report from the Learning First Alliance, a permanent partnership of a dozen education groups, says the districts were selected in part because they showed three or more years of improvement in student test scores that crossed subjects, grade levels, and racial and ethnic groups.

Studies have long demonstrated that parental involvement in a child's education at home and school results in higher grades and test scores, enrollment in higher - level programs, and higher graduation rates and college attendance.