Sentences with phrase «lower math»

Even borderline iron levels were linked to lower math scores among adolescent girls in one study.

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

There were no differences in math test scores among students whose parents had low math anxiety, and no differences in reading achievement for parents with different levels of math anxiety.

«These kids with low math achievement in kindergarten are likely to struggle throughout elementary school and beyond.

One especially striking finding was that African - American and Latino children with high third - grade math scores were not much more likely to become inventors than African - American and Latino children with low math scores.

Using a simple math app at home with parental involvement could break the intergenerational cycle of low math achievement, new research suggests.

Students who didn't score well on the image test tended to receive lower math scores, even after factors, such as IQ levels, were taken into account.

DCPS ELEMENTARY TEST SCORES DOWN — DECLINES IN READING AND MATH Michelle Rhee, unaccountable & unqualified Chancellor «The DCPS had lower math test scores in grades 4 and 8 in 2009, and District African - American test scores went down»....

Educational experts who would use the CCSS as a justification for lowering math fluency standards will only exacerbate the problem of trying to teach algebra to 7th - graders who have to stop every five seconds to calculate 6x8.

«If students have received negative feedback on assessments, if they've been placed in lower math tracks, or if they misunderstand the content, then oftentimes, they think they're bad at math,» Heller says.

In contrast, students who were rated proficient on the MCAS math exam had a significantly lower math GPA (2.39) than students scoring in the college - and - career ready group for PARCC in math (2.81); this margin is equivalent to the difference between a «C +» and a «B -.»

If you asked Lisa or Jenny why she was unhappy upon receiving low math grades, she would probably look at you quizzically.

Students who use the voucher to enroll in private schools end up with much lower math achievement than they would have otherwise, losing as much as 13 percentile points on the state standardized test after two years.

On this basis, LEP students should be expected to exhibit lower math scores than comparable non-LEP students, all else being equal.

Explicit Instruction Works Best for Struggling Math Students Consistently lower math skills are associated with unemployment and lower wages, a new study says.

On the negative side, the study found a low percentage of minority students, reduced - price lunch students, special education students and English learners served by charters, as well as overall low math scores.

The weak math performance echoed the results of a second national exam, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), on which 4th and 8th graders also posted lower math scores on the 2015 test.

I went through a similar process for math, where there was a 60 - point gap in 8th grade expectations between the top state — again New York — and the bottom state — this time Connecticut (which happens to be a very high - performing state, despite low math expectations).

Attending a high - poverty school lowers math and reading achievement for students in all racial / ethnic groups and this negative effect has not diminished over time.

Statewide access to Algebra Nation is made possible by funding from the Michigan legislature, which sought a powerful, proven resource to combat the state's persistently low math achievement.

Low math rankings place young Americans at a disadvantage as they grow and enter the international workforce.

Being that the school earned the second lowest math learning gains in in the state of Florida and severely underperformed in ELA, JSIA placed among the lowest 300 elementary schools.

Although the domain - specific construct of academic self - concept is well - established in the research (e.g., Marsh et al., 2007) there is a lack of studies addressing whether low math and verbal self - concepts were differently related to behavioral problems.

When peer rejection has been analyzed as moderating variables significant associations emerged between low math and verbal self - concepts, respectively, and high risk of behavioral problems.

When Alberto Cortes was held back in fourth grade because of low math skills, he thought his world had come to an end.

This is a study of senior - year math programs in Tennessee designed to «pre-remediate» students with low math achievement.

For example, if a teacher is assigned low - track students — those with weaker reading proficiency in English or lower math skills — negative peer effects will drag down student growth over the year, independent of the teacher's pedagogical skills.

The results suggest that a simple intervention that engages math - anxious parents to talk more about the subject with their children could help break the intergenerational cycle of low math achievement.

Agarwal discovered that those with low math scores were significantly more likely to make a balance transfer mistake.

Those who watched more TV had lower math and verbal test scores.

Entering Head Start, bilingual students had higher inhibitory control, but lower math scores, than English - only students did.

Studies show that school vouchers lead to lower math and reading scores.

Brief, high - quality parent - child interactions about math at home help break the intergenerational cycle of low math achievement.

(Because the state's math test was more difficult than its reading test, low math scores were almost always the main obstacle to improving a school's rating.)

The cluster of states in the lower left - hand corner of the graph — Alabama, Mississippi, Utah, Nevada — have suffered from both low math achievement levels on the part of their workforces and disappointing rates of economic growth.

Longwood's applicants, before applying to the charter school, had similar reading scores but lower math scores (5 percentile points lower) than other students in neighboring regular public schools.

Bucktown's applicants had similar reading scores but lower math scores (7 percentile points lower) compared with students in neighboring regular public schools.

Ladd tells us that states that have a high poverty rate — for example, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and Louisiana — have lower math and reading scores than states with low poverty rates, such as New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Utah, and Maryland.

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.

And officials believe that contributes to low math and science scores on achievement tests.

The study estimated that students using vouchers had lower math scores on the Louisiana state assessment — in fact, scores were quite a lot lower.

Four recent studies, four different programs, different research approaches, but the same general finding — using vouchers to attend private schools leads to lower math scores and, in one study, lower reading scores too.

A low math score may cripple an applicant's chances of getting into a selective school.

These low math scores have generated concern among British educators, who hope to see their rankings improve to match those of China.

High - or low - scoring principals, high or low math achievement, and elementary or secondary level provided a sorting mechanism by which to identify the specific schools where we could begin an exploratory analysis of the interview data.