Sentences with phrase «low average grade»

If true, you would expect schools to exhibit high pass rates when looking at the five subject measure, but a low average grade when considering the broader eight range.

Not exact matches

The reason Canada scores an average «C» grade on this indicator despite being at the bottom of the list of peer countries is because of the extremely low score of the last two countries in the list.

Each account will contain investment - grade taxable bonds rated BBB − or higher at time of purchase.2 The investment team will seek to maintain an overall portfolio credit rating average of A −.2 Please be aware that lower rated bonds do carry additional risk compared to higher rated bonds.

For example, it does not include euro bonds («reverse Yankees») that are hot in Europe, where junk bond yields are at a ludicrously low 2.35 % on average, and the high - grade yield is just above zero.

The average investment - grade (high - yield) bond trades on less than 32 % (36 %) of days over the prior six months — liquidity in corporate bonds was considerably lower than in traditional listed equity markets.

◾ The average GPA for students who were frequently physically harassed because of their sexual orientation was half a grade lower than that of other students.»

The meta - analysis I conducted indicates that students with high Bible literacy earn a grade point average that is about one point higher than that of students with low Bible literacy.

He has one of the three highest academic averages in the history of Mansfield High — he received a B for one marking period in seventh - grade English but nothing lower than an A since — and will certainly become the fourth member of his family named most likely to succeed by his classmates at graduation.

However, some students at Princeton agreed with the article, and cited professors who had complained about the athletes in their classes for bringing down the average grade and for low attendance to lectures.

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.

Freshman Academy is a program for students who have not met the requirements for admission into university due to a low grade point average or missing academic courses.

Syracuse students» test scores were also low, with 10.4 percent of students» scores in third - through eighth - grade being rated «proficient» versus the state's 39.1 percent average.

Those who are most threatened achieve lower grade point averages and are twice as likely either not to finish high school or go on to college.

In the main study group, exposure to anesthesia for surgery before the age of 4 was associated with an average difference of 0.41 percent lower school grades and 0.97 percent lower IQ test scores.

A 2013 study in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that teens who went to bed later than 11:30 during the school year had lower grade - point averages and were more vulnerable to emotional problems than those who went to bed earlier.

Low - grade chronic inflammation annually kills between 184,000 to as high as 462,000 Americans, on average, in the form of sudden heart attacks.

I refuse to give this game a grade lower than 10 because I am really excited about avp, and it will raise the average rating.

Yes, we grade on a curve: the highest average Metascores get A's, the lowest F's, and everything else slots in between.

Maine earns lower - than - average scores in three of the four graded policy categories in Quality Counts.

Bangladeshi, Indian, black African and Pakistani pupils from poorer homes were also found to perform «well above» the national average, while white working class boys achieve the lowest grades at GCSE of any main ethnic group.

But the averages include the 30 percent of kids who dropped out, switched to a GED program, or left for some other reason, probably lowering the grades.

In fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schools.

Stricter attendance policies — with consequences for truancy ranging from lower grade point averages to fines and jail time for parents — are paying off in several school districts Education World contacted.

We find that students, on average, experience better outcomes when they are in a grade cohort that puts its school at risk of receiving a Low - Performing rating.

As can be seen in Figure 1a, states with higher percentages of students from low - income families report lower average scale scores in 8th - grade math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

The magnitudes are not trivial: they imply that students who take only online courses would have grade point averages about ten percentage points lower in the distribution than those who took only face - to - face courses, all else equal.

The immediate consequences of such decisions - higher taxes, more homework, lower grade point averages (GPAs), a greater risk of being denied a diploma - were negative.

Teachers, on average, give 13 % of their colleagues one of these two low grades, though they find 69 % worthy of an A or B.

By the 12th grade, male scores were on average 24 points lower than female scores — and...

This rate uses an average of three years of enrollment to smooth out the bump in ninth grade enrollment that happens because students are retained, but the rate is sensitive to migration trends — for example, if a state or district had more students move out than in, the rate will be too low.

The Secondary School Support Initiative was introduced in 2008 to provide targeted support for low - performing secondary schools where the pass rates in grades 9 and 10 target courses were significantly below the provincial average.

Despite widening gaps between highest - and lowest - scoring students, average scores in reading and mathematics were essentially flat from 2015 to 2017, with the exception of eighth - grade reading scores, where the percentage of proficient students increased by two percentage points.

We estimate that an 8th grader who attends school with 200 other 8th - grade students will score 0.04 standard deviations lower in both math and English than he would if he attended a school with 75 other 8th graders, the average cohort size for a K — 8 school.

Conversely, late entrants at district schools had dramatically lower average 4th - grade test scores than on - time enrollees: 0.30 and 0.32 standard deviations lower in reading and math, respectively (in both cases, 0.29 standard deviations below the district average).

Despite the higher average education level of their parents, charter school students exhibit lower levels of performance on end - of - grade tests in both reading and math.

In terms of academic performance, KIPP students» achievement in grade 4 (before entering KIPP) is lower than the district average by 0.09 standard deviations in reading and by 0.08 standard deviations in math, or roughly one - quarter of a grade level in each subject.

Finally, tuition in these schools is very low, averaging about $ 2.12 per month in recognized private schools at 1st grade and $ 1.51 in unrecognized schools.

Within KIPP schools, students in early grades have lower entering achievement levels, on average, than those in later grades, a pattern that is not evident at district schools.

The results of this analysis confirm that the relationship between higher teacher turnover and lower average valueadded in a given grade is stronger as principal quality rises.

With those assistants, instructor - to - student ratios are lowered to an average of 1 - to - 18 for kindergarten and 1st grade, and...

This is why we want to lower the average class size to 18 in grades one through three.

We observe that there is virtually no relationship between the relative affluence of the overall student body of the school and the SES test score gap in that school: schools serving primarily high - SES students and those serving primarily low - SES students have the same average SES test score gaps (around 0.8 standard deviations) in both third and fifth grades.

The typical high - SES student in this sample scored about 0.6 to 0.7 standard deviations above the state average (depending on grade considered), while the typical low - SES student in the sample scored about 0.1 to 0.2 standard deviations below the state average.

For example, in 2012, Long Beach City College (LBCC) in California was one of the first to develop and pilot an alternative placement algorithm based on high school coursework and grades, which increased the proportion of students placing directly into college - level coursework by 21 percentage points in math and 56 percentage points in English, without significantly lowering the average performance of students in these courses.

Among schools where high - SES students fall back around 0.2 standard deviations relative to the state average between third and fifth grades, there are some schools where low - SES students lose only around 0.1 standard deviation of relative ground, and others where low - SES students lose nearly 0.4 standard deviations of relative ground.

1) While Americans asked to evaluate the quality of teachers» work think, on average, that about half of the teachers in their local schools deserve a grade of A or B, they think that more than one - fifth deserve a D or F; even teachers give these low marks to more than 1 in 10 of their peers, on average.

Students in grades 4 and above might figure the week's average high, low, and average temperatures.

The average eighth - grade score was 282 in 2015, compared with 285 in 2013; that score was the lowest since 2007.

Here, the Common Core is being piloted in grades K through 2 and it's crystal clear that many kids - not just disadvantaged students (English Language Learners, low - income kids, students with disabilities), but also just kids with low average abilities, will not meet these standards anytime soon.

A lower grade - point average will limit which schools consider you for admission.