Sentences with phrase «line of test scores»

I believe that if we focus solely upon the bottom - line of test scores, we completely miss the more fundamental importance of positive learning environments and strong curriculum.

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I am with you on that Pablo, in theory we should have 75 — 80 mill to spend, I wouldn't put Zabaletta in the 2 or 3 quality players, he is decent offensively but plays in a team that rarely has to defend, Moses looks decent doing that at Chelsea, all too often Byram has been exposed by not having any defensive assistance if we sign him will be interesting to see how he is defensively because he will be tested in our team, Batshuayi would be a quality addition but he is still only a reserve for Chelski and I don't think he could do what Costa has for them or for us, imo we would still need another striker to lead the line, maybe Josh King if the rumours are true, what hasn't been mentioned too much is the left wing slots, none of ours are particulary great most of them seem to prefer the right side, if we don't go for Nolito maybe have a punt on Grosicki from Hull, we were interested in him previously and he is a very quick player that can create and score goals.

Differences in Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test — Second Edition Verbal Scores at Age 7 Years According to Duration of Any Breastfeeding, With Linear Trend Line

And being the oldest kid in your class, as it turns out, could not only raise test scores and improve your college odds but lower your chances of incarceration down the line.

The researchers also compared sugary ready - to - eat cereal to oatmeal and found oatmeal's nutritional advantage (more nourishing whole food meal) made it a better choice at improving brain power and encouraging better test scores.1 Additional stats show higher test grades and better school attendance in breakfast eaters than in non-breakfast eaters too.2 Bottom line: to excel in whatever we do, whether it be school, work, play or relationships, we need breakfast to be at the top of our mental game.

Although familiarity with the test can add a real boost to scores, the bottom line is students must understand and know how to use and apply their mathematical skills flexibly in a variety of situations.

Add to this the findings (from Bowen, Chingos and McPherson's Crossing the Finish Line) that high school grades have a more predictive value of college success than standardized tests, and you may just see a shift from standardized test scores to high school GPA by some college admissions officers.

Each dot represents a school, and the diagonal line shows the overall relationship between test - score gains and fluid cognitive ability across the full sample of schools.

Florida's scholarship students are among the most disadvantaged — the average household income of scholarship families was only $ 24,067 this year, 4.5 percent above the poverty line — yet on math and read tests, they still score near the national median among all students from all income ranges.

But the slopes are still far from the 45 - degree line, and at every level of the kindergarten readiness gap there exists a very large variation in test score gaps.

In the Chicago Public Schools, where 85 percent of the 400,000 - plus students live below the poverty line, test scores, attendance, and teacher retention all went up during Duncan's seven - year tenure, while the dropout rate declined.

A student who is using a voucher and is attending fifth grade, has family income near the poverty line, a particular race or ethnicity, and has low math and reading test scores, for example, would be matched to one or more students who are also attending fifth grade, have incomes near the poverty line, are of that race or ethnicity, and have low reading and math scores, but do not use vouchers.

So, he asks «whether regulators are any good at identifying which schools will contribute to test score gains» and then says this: «The bottom line is that none of the factors used by authorizers to open or renew charter schools in New Orleans were predictive of how much test score growth these schools could produce later on.»

For bona fide school choice programs, short - term test scores and long - term outcomes line up most of the time

«My experience over the years is that the majority of test scores are in line with classroom performance, within reason, of course.»

-LSB-...] among the most disadvantaged — the average household income of scholarship families was only $ 24,067 this year, 4.5 percent above the poverty line — yet on math and read tests, they still score -LSB-...]

Optimism, test scores on the rise at English High School November 30, 2015 In a fourth - floor classroom, students diligently scrawled notes across lined pages one recent morning as social studies teacher Frank Swoboda explained the role of politics in economic development, peppering his lesson with observations from students... read more.

It includes a margin of error line, which shows how a score might have changed if the student had taken the test again.

Critics fear that parent triggers will transform the school system into an assembly line of identically run schools that focus on test scores at the expense of teacher autonomy in the classroom.

While standardized test scores were put in place with the laudable goal of establishing standard expectations across schools, somewhere along the line tests replaced trust in teachers» ability to discern the skills of their own students.

Keep in mind, this lamentation of the lack of «honor» given to teaching as a profession comes from someone who has repeatedly taken the standard reformer line that all of the ills in our education system can be traced back almost entirely to teachers themselves and who has advocated for policy makers who diminish teachers» workplace protections and their autonomy and who want to tie opportunities for greater compensation to standardized test scores.

But when the researchers compared California schools districts, based on their English learners» standardized test scores and mastery of English proficiency, and then followed up with site visits and interviews with administrators, they discovered that many of the most successful districts viewed the Common Core as a means to higher achievement for these students, and used strategies in line with its goals to achieve their good results.

Nonetheless, there is substantial evidence to the contrary, especially from research in which organizational effectiveness is defined as the organization «s bottom line (some measure of productivity) and assessed using objective indicators, such as student test scores.

The XUV500 had earlier scored four out of five stars for passenger safety in the Australian NCAP crash tests and the top - of - the - line Indian version is no different either.

The «plus» in Top Safety Pick + is added if the vehicle scores an «acceptable» or «good» in their small overlap crash test, in which the vehicle is lined up so that 25 percent of it — a front corner — overlaps with a barrier during a frontal, 40 - mph (64 km / h) collision.

The Sunspider score of 766.1 ms is roughly in - line with all the other tablets that I have tested both on Android and Windows 8.1.

In fact, the tablet scored very well against other tablets on the benchmark tests, but its specs were top - of - the - line in 2011.

At certain points on each track, you'll encounter drifting, high speed, and racing line tests that pit your score against that of another online player — either a friend or a random.

SiSoft Sandra's Processor Arithmetic test turned in a combined score of 8.2 GOPS and 7 - Zip recorded a total of 2,742, which is, again, right in line with other Atom tablets.

The GeekBench scores are in line with other flagships with the phone scoring 1900 in single - core and 6000 plus in the multi-core tests, putting it above the older S7, S7 edge, etc in terms of performance.

On WebXPRT 2015, a nice synthetic benchmark that tests how well a computer browses the web, and how deftly it processes images and spreadsheets, the Yoga 720 pulled a score of 400, putting it right in line with pricier laptops like the $ 1400 Razer Blade Stealth (402) and $ 1200 LG Gram 14 (432).

Bottom Line: The D - Link AC5300 Ultra Wi - Fi Router (DIR - 895L / R) is a slick - looking, fully loaded tri-band router that delivers some of the fastest scores we've seen in throughput and file - transfer tests.

Running the standard GeekBench 3 benchmark tests, the Ascend G7 scored 1398, which is roughly in line with what I was expecting of the device considering its specifications.

Samsung's phone clocked a 3,580 score in the Geekbench 4 test of overall system performance, in line with the Moto G5 Plus (3,746) and ZTE»S Blade V8 Pro (3,018).