Sentences with phrase «language scores»

The voucher students were more successful in part because of more efficient teaching, which maintained math and Telugu language scores on par with public schools while allocating more time for English, Science, Social Studies, and Hindu.
«Entering Educare as an infant appears to prevent the early decline in language scores often associated with poverty,» Noreen Yazejian, principal investigator of FPG's Educare Learning Network Implementation Study, said in a research summary.
Her poetic sound installations and experimental language scores often use the gap, space or breath in between speech — not as forms of negation, but as complex generators of meaning.
«In addition, the children who enter Educare schools as infants and remain through their preschool years demonstrate the highest English language scores at age 5, performing very close to the national average.»
This school is being punished by the school district because OTHER school are failing API language score Wilson is being forced to spend a mandatory 2 hour period in the morning doing low level language arts lessons which are far below grade level.
Forty - one percent had a significant disparity between their language scores and their nonverbal cognitive scores, which the researchers defined as a «language underperformance.»
They were scored for the number of total words they used, the number of distinct words used, and two indicators of narrative quality: story structure score (inclusion of appropriate story elements and sequence) and language score (clarity and complexity of grammatical features in the story).
For language scores, being homeschooled had an effect size of about 26 percentile points higher than if public schooled (i.e., a change in z - score of.65).
Over the last three years, only the language scores on the HSPA showed some significant narrowing of achievement differences.
Some research suggests that in infant child care, infants and toddlers with more responsive and sensitive caregivers have higher cognitive and language scores and greater social competence (Rubenstein & Howes, 1983).
Studies that examine children's development over time have shown that higher quality child care is a predictor of improvement in children's ability to understand spoken language, communication skills, verbal IQ skills, cognitive skills, behavioral skills, and attainment of higher math and language scores — all of which impact later school success.
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