Sentences with phrase «less improvement»

In some schools and districts, test score increases may reflect less an improvement in teaching and learning than a loss of weaker students from the test - taking pool.

While the data tells a story of some progress in adopting tools and programs to make justice more accessible, some of its findings show much less improvement.

Research has demonstrated that students just below the bar were most likely to make large gains in the NCLB era, while high achievers made lesser improvements.

The high - fat diet patients also showed less improvement in their lung function in response to the asthma medication Ventolin (generically known as albuterol) three to four hours after the meal.

Compared with regulatory capital ratios, however, the measures suggest less improvement in banking system resilience since the pre-crisis period.

«When we start looking at our older students, we see less improvement over time,» said Jack Buckley, who leads the U.S. Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics.

Unless you're just saying points relative to first place in a given season in isolation is all that matters and performances are meaningless and nothing can be extrapolated or projected, in which case our 14/15 side was closer to winning the league and subsequently required less improvement than our 17/18 one, a notion I'd call preposterous.

The gabapentin pill group reported less improvement than the sham acupuncture group, and the placebo pill group placed last.

After one month, both groups experienced improvements in physical function; however the delirium group demonstrated less improvement than its counterpart.

Analysis of key program elements demonstrated that integrating substance abuse, mental health, and trauma - related issues into counseling yielded greater improvement, whereas the delivery of numerous core services yielded less improvement relative to the comparison group.

On the contrary, poverty rates for various groups, including children, have seen much less improvement in London compared to the Northern regions; house price affordability and private rental costs have increased substantially in London but not in the North; homelessness has worsened in London but improved in the North; and overcrowding remains particularly acute in the capital.

Because they face no competition from vouchers and have lower chances of receiving an F grade, sometimes - D schools are expected to make less improvement than the voucher - eligible, voucher - threatened, and always - D schools.

Compared with regulatory capital ratios, however, the measures suggest less improvement in banking system resilience since the pre-crisis period.

Those who completed their lessons early in the year often showed less improvement than high implementers finishing later in the year.

It's such a shame that The Baconing ends up feeling like another expansion with less improvements than TOV had.

This seems to be less an improvement to the process than it is a jug of water he's carrying for NYCOM.

The study participants who guessed correctly that they were taking a placebo showed much less improvement, according to preliminary results presented at the Society for Endocrinology meeting in June.

Capital gain: The difference between the price at which you bought an investment and the price at which you sold it, less improvements made and other money in the investment.

The IPT and SWI groups clustered with similarly low outcome scores; CBT and SP also moved together but showed less improvement.