Sentences with phrase «lower test scores compared»

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Odds ratio (OR) was calculated and used as an estimate of the relative risk of getting a low test score among children who had been breast fed less than three months, compared to children who had been breast fed at least six months.

The researchers then compared the results from the brain imaging tests for the serotonin transporter to those two memory tests, and found that the lower serotonin transporters correlated with lower scores.

However, the researchers noticed that women with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder who had a history of Candida infection had lower scores on the memory portions of this test compared to those women with no prior infection.

And so one scientist named Phil Shaw has been looking at whether there is a difference in how the brain in children who score high on intelligence tests developed compared to children who scored low, and it turns out there is.

In boys, exposure to chlorpyrifos in the womb was associated with lower scores on short - term memory tests compared with girls exposed to similar amounts.

According to the researchers, people with long - term low physical activity, as well as people with long - term high television viewing, scored much worse on the tests compared to those who were more active and watched less television.

In a study involving dietary ketosis via a low carbohydrate diet (less than 10 percent of total calories), compared to subjects on a 50 percent carbohydrate diet, the low - carbohydrate subjects demonstrated better performance on memory tests, with higher scores being correlated to higher serum KB levels.14 A study using cultured mouse hippocampal cells showed that addition of the KB β - hydroxybutyrate (β - OHB) to cells exposed to Aβ resulted in no decrease in the numbers of dendrites or total neurons — two of the noted pathological changes in AD.

On the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, 46 percent of the city's students scored «below basic» in mathematics, and 38 percent were below that low threshold in reading (compared with 33 and 28 percent for the nation, respectively).

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.

Students who attend middle schools at risk of dropping out of high school As compared to students in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievement tests.

The motivation for Mexican education reform is driven by high grade retention, high dropout rates, and low test scores — even when compared with children from other Latin American countries.

Using 2015 test - score data and comparing schools with similar percentages of low - income kids, charters outperform DPS - operated schools at the middle and high school level but not at the elementary level, where there are only 10 charters.

As compared to students in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievement tests.

Perhaps the most reasonable way to compare charters and DPS - operated schools is to analyze school test scores and percentages of low - income students together, on the same scatter plot.

To the contrary, when schools serving similar populations were compared across the state of Indiana, and poverty was controlled for, those schools with relatively low suspension rates had higher, not lower test scores

Test scores are low compared to schools with similar students.

For example, a low - SES school that is performing well can be encouraged to continue to refine and improve an already - effective instructional strategy (in terms of raising test scores compared to similar schools) but still be reminded that the students are not scoring sufficiently high relative to an absolute benchmark.

Data from the tracking schools allow us to estimate the effect of being taught with a higher - achieving vs. lower - achieving peer group by comparing students with baseline test scores in the middle of the distribution.

According to a 2002 study of children in Dane County, Wisconsin, by urban - policy consultant David Rusk, low - income children at schools with a middle - class majority scored 20 - 32 percent higher on standardized tests compared with what their scores would be at schools with a lower percentage of middle - class students.

Students with the lowest scores on the placement test benefited similarly from taking statistics when compared with students with higher scores.

To test for this possibility, we compared the gains made by F schools with the performance of an even smaller subset of schools whose 2002 test scores were similar but had never received an F (which we termed low - performing non-F schools).

The numbers are unlikely to give fodder either to educational cheerleaders or alarmists: The average score in both subjects was just one point lower in 2015 compared with the last time the test was given, in 2013.

Setting aside the question of whether 8th - grade tests can be compared with the lower - grade tests in the Prospects study and the higher - grade tests in the National Education Longitudinal Survey, a more basic problem with this measure has to do with the statistical properties of test scores.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

But when she compared the end - of - year test scores of low - income children who had attended preschool to those who hadn't, she found that low - income preschoolers who had attended preschool classes with peers from other economic strata performed the best.

Although Joyner's Smarter Balanced scores were low, Castellanos said they represented growth compared to the school's last performance on the California Standards Test, which was discontinued in 2014.

The U.S. Department of Education's massive «Prospects» study in the 1990s found exactly this when it compared test scores from a standardized test to student grades in high and low poverty schools.

As a result, the test score gaps between high - need students and white students are larger on the SBAC than they were on CST for both math and ELA (Figure 1).3 In particular, the gap in math between EL students and white students was 80 percent on the SBAC, compared to 38 percent on the CST — in other words, the share of EL students who met the standard for the SBAC was 80 percent lower than the share of white students who met those standards.

Achieve's report found that more than half the states had a gap of 30 percentage points or more between the higher percentages of students scoring proficient on state tests compared with the lower number hitting what the national assessment tests deem as proficient in 2013 - 14.

In her 2013 book, Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch — an education historian and former federal education official who originally supported but later became a critic of reforms like No Child Left Behind — cites surprising evidence that a nation's higher position on an international ranking of test scores actually predicted lower per capita GDP decades later, compared with countries whose test scores ranked worse.

If a charter school has lower test scores or other school metrics, try to find out if the students in the charter improve compared to their previous school experience.

The Low - income Rating looks at state test scores for students who qualify for free or reduced - price lunch compared to all students in the state.

February 2012 — The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research found that four years after undergoing dramatic reform efforts, including turnarounds, low - performing elementary schools in Chicago closed the achievement gap in test scores by almost half in reading and two - thirds in math compared to similar schools that did not receive intervention.

If a fourth - grade teacher was rated low - performing and removed, they compared the test scores of fourth graders before and after the removal in that same school.

Or they want to compare teachers according to their test score gains (Value Added Measurement) and pressure the low scorers or worse.

For example, CREDO compares two students with similar prior test scores both coming from low income and high parental education families, but one student now attends a charter school and the other attends a traditional public school.

It is critical that when looking at test scores, compare how different groups of students (low income, race, special education, etc.) are doing.

Low - income students generally score lower on rigorous tests, especially in subjects other than math, largely because they lack background knowledge and vocabulary when compared to their more affluent peers.

On the Jetstream 1.1 JavaScript test, the E4 Plus scored 18.9 compared with the G5 Plus score of 30.3, but the lower - end device trumped the comparably priced

In line with our mobile testing protocols, we test only in default mode, which may go some way towards explaining the Mi 5SPlus's lower score compared to its predecessor.

It scored four hours and 48 minutes on our most grueling Peacekeeper test, for example, which is low compared to some of our comparison systems but not egregiously so.

A Geekbench test, as we reported, also gave the Qualcomm processor a thumbs up as it scored 5,423 compared to the Exynos 8890's lower 5,946 rating.

Not the best of the scores out there, and lower when compared to even a few competitors with the same MT6592 processor, but these tests also rely on the specs, and the 1 GB RAM could be a reason for the low score.

In this test, the Erazer stands up well compared to affordable boutique rigs from Digital Storm and Maingear, both of which turned in much lower scores.

A slight indication of a weaker association between academic test scores and general health for the BCS compared with the NCDS cohort at the level of consistently low scores was observed (p = 0.01 and p = 0.02 for interaction in the individual and full models respectively).

Turkish immigrant children, on average, had lower HLE, cognitive, and speaking proficiency test scores when compared to their German peers.