Sentences with phrase «lower average readings»

Effect sizes tended to be larger in schools where students had lower average reading performance overall.

Not exact matches

A few things stand out about this particular rate change: first, the magnitude of influence that just a quarter percentage - point change had on the stock market; second, the current rate with an upper range of.50 % compared to the various long - term averages of about 5 %; and third, the rate remains historically low, with only minute incremental changes, despite the relatively good news we continue to read about the economy.

The lower lows and lower highs, along with the break below the 200 - day moving average, presently situated at 1.3645, Domestic focus for the pound is now on today's release of the April services PMI, where we expect a 53.5 headline after a weak, weather - impacted 51.7 reading in March.

And as an added bonus, by reading and reading (and my moving averages converging) I was able to avoid most (got hit for about 5 %) at the market melt and even made up for the losses by investing even more when the market was at it's lowest.

With the second straight week of sub-225K readings, the four - week moving average also made a new low this week falling from 229.25 K down to 221.5 K.

I just read online that 1/3 cup mashed = 1 average banana, but that sounds a touch low to me.

I have been reading comments of fans on here, especially those who have chosen to appreciate the average in ability that a striker like giroud possess, my question for ya all is, when did arsenal become a team so low on profile to sing praise of a striker who no one can rank among the top 3 striker in the league, I have seen an arsenal team with a striking force with players like, anelka, Wright, Henry, v persie, no one can rank giroud or whatever his name is in the category of my mentioned strikers.we all have got to face it, giroud is not good enough to be leading the attack of a team dreaming of winning the league, and Henry is right saying arsenal can't win the league with giroud as our striker,,, check this out, man u won league titles with strikers like Rooney, van nisteroy, v persie, man city won with aguero, Chelsea with drogba and now Costa, giroud stand no chance against any of those.let's stop appreciating mediocrity, wenger should get us a good striker as giroud is damn too average for arsenal

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.

And in that condition, a simple equation relates the «difference frequency,» which can be read out like a clock's ticking, to the Compton frequency of the atoms and the much lower average frequency of the two lasers.

Most low - income schools don't receive enough money to help kids hit average math and reading scores, a new study shows

Although pulse rates and average blood pressure rose in both groups between baseline and the stress phase, in the recovery phase, individuals who had napped had considerably lower average blood pressure readings compared to individuals who hadn't slept.

To be fair, most dentists probably don't see many patients who are eating a specific diet to improve their oral health, and most of the studies and research they read is probably done on people eating a somewhat average diet (high in phytic acid and low in Vitamin D), so it is very logical that they wouldn't think that teeth could heal.

One study showed individuals with pre-hypertension taking 300 mg of MegaNatural ® - BP experienced a reduction in blood pressure.The participants took all 300mgs once a day for two months, and blood pressure monitoring averaged in systolic readings 8mmHg lower and diastolic pressure lower by 5mmHg.

Participants with a high (o. 67 % kcal) omega - 3 fatty acid percentage of their daily calorie intake had an average systolic and diastolic blood pressure reading that was 0.55 / 0.57 mm Hg less, respectively, than participants with lower intake.

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In these healthy UK children with below average reading ability, concentrations of DHA and other Omega - 3 LC - PUFA were low relative to adult cardiovascular health recommendations, and directly related to measures of cognition and behavior.

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If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

Drawing from math test scores from PISA 2009 in which the United States performed lower than the OECD average, the report argues that while demand for STEM labor is predicted to increase over the next few decades, a shortage of STEM labor in the United States, along with inadequate performance in science, math, and reading compared to other countries, endangers U.S. future competitiveness and innovation.

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.

The 309 schools included in the study differed from other city schools in the following ways: They had a higher proportion of English Language Learners (ELL), special education, minority students, and students eligible for the Title I free or reduced - price lunch program, as well as lower average math and reading scores.

On average, participating low - income students are performing better in reading because the federal government decided to launch an experimental school choice program in our nation's capital.

Results from the 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), released on 5 December, show Australia's average score was lower than those of 13 other countries, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Northern Ireland and England, which all tested in English, as well as other top - performing countries the Russian Federation, Finland and Poland.

NCLB required that states test students in math and reading each year, that average student performance be publicized for every school, and that schools with persistently low test scores face an escalating series of sanctions.

For me, one thing that really jumped out of your report was that while Australia's average scores are declining in all three domains — that's scientific literacy, reading literacy and mathematical literacy — the proportion of low performing students is increasing.

Students with multiple teachers scored, on average, slightly lower in both math and reading relative to students with one teacher.

A translation of the results finds that being surrounded by peers who score 1 point lower on average has the following effects: it lowers a Hispanic student's own score by 0.439 points in reading and 0.587 points in math, and it lowers a white student's own score by 0.176 points in math.

A translation of the results shows that being surrounded by peers who score 1 point lower on average has the following effects: it lowers a black student's own score by 0.676 points in reading and 0.402 points in math; it lowers a Hispanic student's own score by 0.266 points in reading and 0.185 points in math; and it lowers a white student's own score by 0.168 points in reading and 0.092 points in math.

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.

Pupils from low income families had a 29 per cent chance of being rated below average at reading by teachers, compared to 20 per cent of equally able classmates from high income backgrounds.

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.

Previous reports (most recently «States Raise Proficiency Standards in Math and Reading,» features, Summer 2015) show that states, on average, established proficiency benchmarks that were much lower than those set by the NAEP and that state standards varied widely.

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.

Approximately 95 percent of CSGF's member schools enable students to outperform comparable district schools in both math and reading; nearly 70 percent of schools enable their students to outperform state averages in both math and reading, although they serve much higher than average percentages of low - income and minority students.

Launching Principals Pursuing Excellence in partnership with our districts and watching those 84 schools, all historically low - performing, double and triple the statewide average in math and reading growth... and seeing entire districts in the northwest corner of the state be transformed because of their local leadership embracing change.

The difference between the average reading literacy score for the highest - performing state or territory (ACT) and the lowest - performing (NT) was the equivalent of around one - and - a-half years of schooling.

Some countries, such as Portugal and Kazakhstan, recorded higher proportions of students who very much like reading, while others, including countries who performed higher on average than Australia, had much lower proportions of students who very much like reading compared to Australia.

Looking at the global situation: 23 per cent of students, on average, are low performers in Mathematics across the 64 OECD countries and economies that participated in PISA 2012; and, 18 per cent of students are low performers in Reading and Science.

Australia's Indigenous students achieved an average score 97 points lower than non-Indigenous students — a larger gap than in scientific literacy (76 points), mathematical literacy (70 points) or reading literacy (71 points).

And the NAEP data are clear, if not as dramatic as some selected state data: boys, on average, perform less well than girls on tests of reading and writing skills and low - income boys do less well than higher - income boys.

Despite the government's claims to be concerned about underfunded areas, some of the largest staffing cuts are in the areas with the lowest average funding per pupil such as: Reading, Isle of Wight, Central Bedfordshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, York, Derby and Milton Keynes.

After collecting a century's worth of academic studies, summer - learning expert Harris Cooper, now at Duke University, concluded that, on average, all students lose about a month of progress in math skills each summer, while low - income students slip as many as three months in reading comprehension, compared with middle - income students.

The results indicated that children on average identified peers with stronger reading skills and the positive association between peer reading skills and children's own reading achievement was strongest for children with lower initial levels of reading skills.

In this case, those were students with only moderately low math skills but below - average reading skills.

An analysis comparing the engaged reading time and reading scores of more than 2.2 million students found that students who read less than five minutes per day saw the lowest levels of growth, well below the national average.2 Even students who read 5 — 14 minutes per day saw sluggish gains that were below the national average.

Mindful of problems with permission, attrition, and absences, we asked each teacher, in the fall, to select four average - achieving and four low - achieving children, based on teachers» perceptions of reading performance (or emergent literacy performance), to complete pretests.

There was more variation with the middle reading tercile, whose average percent correct decreased by 3 % between low reading demand and high reading demand questions.

Children in between, who read 15 — 29 minutes per day, will encounter an average of 5.7 million words — less than half of the high - reading group but nearly four times that of the low - reading group.1