Adoptees adopted after age 4 years had
lower test scores if they were not of Korean ethnicity, while age did not influence test scores in South Koreans or those adopted from other non-European countries before the age of 4 years.
However, black children had
lower test scores if they lived in a single parent home than if they lived in a married home.
Not exact matches
Lower average
test scores might not be a problem
if you can find out that kids are rapidly improving over time, making that cute house in the cheaper part of town not only good for your wallet, but good for your child's education too.
Don't sweat it
if your GPA is
low; instead, look for other ways to get an edge, like earning a great
score on your Graduate Management Admission
Test (GMAT).
If so then you are probably like me and always looking for ways to improve your accounts, whether it is trying to increase your CTRs, A / B
Testing ad extensions, improving quality
scores, or weeding out the
low... Read more
If you don't want to remove them completely, then I recommend you create a new campaign where you continue to
test these
low quality
score keywords without «rotting» your other campaign.
If you want to test my theory, have your spouse, or parent add you as an A.U. on a couple of their cards without even giving you the physical card (to avoid risk if they worry about abuse) watch your scores go through the statosphere if the balances are low because it increases your presumed available amount of credit and expands your ratio of credit vs balanc
If you want to
test my theory, have your spouse, or parent add you as an A.U. on a couple of their cards without even giving you the physical card (to avoid risk
if they worry about abuse) watch your scores go through the statosphere if the balances are low because it increases your presumed available amount of credit and expands your ratio of credit vs balanc
if they worry about abuse) watch your
scores go through the statosphere
if the balances are low because it increases your presumed available amount of credit and expands your ratio of credit vs balanc
if the balances are
low because it increases your presumed available amount of credit and expands your ratio of credit vs balances
The study, similar to research conducted at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota, would examine
if serving a morning meal is linked to improved
test scores,
lower absenteeism or fewer behavior problems.
Many people believe part of the
low test score issue is that kids can't learn
if they aren't there and anecdotal evidence is reporting massive truancy.
But Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, who remained cool and collected throughout the hearing, argued that it wasn't right to keep schools open
if they are failing kids with consistently
low test scores and graduation rates.
Similarly,
if replacing the
lowest - ranked school in the survey with a top - quintile school, student
test scores would improve by 0.39 of a standard deviation using a conventional VAM, and 0.53 of a standard deviation when using the MIT team's own VAM method.
So what
if you get the CAC
test and your
score comes back high... would a keto diet help to
lower that
score?
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.
Moreover,
if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of
low performers in countries with average
test scores similar to the United States.
If parents no longer thought of non-White, majority Free Lunch schools as synonymous with
low test scores, they would be more open to desegregation.
If charter schools were primarily established in response to dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, they would tend to be located in areas with
low - quality traditional public schools where students would tend to make below - average
test -
score gains.
If you start bringing in college representatives during freshman and sophomore years, your students can introduce themselves one - on - one, explain that they may have
lower tests scores or GPA, and the college representatives can give them advice on ways to increase their
scores and grades, what they can write about in their essays, and «what they can actually get in the habit of doing in hopes of getting accepted into their college,» says Cole.
If minorities are benefiting, why do black students
score 20 points
lower than white students on those
tests?
If teachers find it easier to teach a homogeneous group of students, tracking could enhance school effectiveness and raise
test scores of both
low - and high - ability students.
The parents who choose them may not care
if they have
low «value added» on
test scores.
In California,
if you are a
low - income Hispanic or African - American child, you are more likely get a better education (as measured by
test scores and parent demand)
if you attend a charter school.
If we could fire the bottom 5 to 10 percent of the
lowest - performing teachers every year, says Hoover Institution economist Eric Hanushek in the film, our national
test scores would soon approach the top of international rankings in mathematics and science.
For example,
if a student
scores an 84 on a
test that has a standard error of measurement of three, then his or her performance level could be as
low as 81 or as high as 87.
Or, put another way,
if teachers were generating high
test score gains from their students by creating a climate of abject fear in their classrooms, their observation
scores should be
low and that information is useful.
If Adele's SGP is 50, it means that her growth in
test scores is right in the middle: Half of the similar students who
scored 263 last year
scored higher than she did this year, and half of them
scored lower.
If this were true, one would expect the patterns of
test -
score gains across items to differ for
low - versus high - performing students and schools.
And
if a school's
test scores are
low, according to another sponsor for charter schools across Indiana, it likely wouldn't take as long as six years for the charter to be revoked.
We do not know
if children's
low test scores are actually due to lack of skills in that area or simply a case of not finishing the
test — a problem that plagued many students.
State accountability systems focus attention and resources on
low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned,
if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency
scores on standardized
tests.
Few charter schools are shut down
if they show
low student
test scores, as was originally promised.
That's perhaps a clue that even
if you could magically get
low - income children in other countries to do as much homework as their high - income peers, as the OECD researchers are suggesting, you might not raise their PISA
test scores very much.
Listen to Thomas, a white Harvard student who admits to feeling «personally disadvantaged at times,» and goes on to explain, «
If you're Latino or if you're black you could have a lower GPA and lower test scores and get in and then I could have the same test scores and maybe not get in.&raqu
If you're Latino or
if you're black you could have a lower GPA and lower test scores and get in and then I could have the same test scores and maybe not get in.&raqu
if you're black you could have a
lower GPA and
lower test scores and get in and then I could have the same
test scores and maybe not get in.»
Chronic absenteeism in kindergarten, and even pre-K, can predict
lower test scores, repeated patterns of poor attendance and retention in later grades, especially
if the absences persist for more than a year.
Not only would this
lower the quality of the data, but it would also raise the stakes of the
tests:
If you think the stakes are too high now, imagine being a fifth grader in a school where your
score determines the results of the entire school.
Students will need to gain as many points as possible on the RLA ER item, but even
if a
low number of points are obtained, all of those points will be counted towards the
test - takers»
score, unlike on the current writing
test.
Students will not be turned away from community colleges because of
low scores but would have to take remedial classes
if they don't do well enough on the
test.
In
low - wealth districts, officials are warning the public that they should expect
low grades for their schools, even
if they have succeeded in bringing students up on
test scores over time.
Translation:
If funding increases helped build students» social - emotional skills, then
low test scores wouldn't necessarily mean the money was wasted.
If you look at the page to which I linked, you'll see that elementary teacher candidates, in particular, had very
low achievement
test scores.
Middle School, said some instructors might be more reluctant to take on
low - income minority students
if they are evaluated on
test scores, which do not account for poverty and other factors teachers can not control but that are known to affect learning.
He says the Committee will likely consider Bennett's proposal to shorten the timeline the state uses to determine when to intervene in schools with chronically
low test scores — even
if the legislature doesn't create a timeline for district - level takeover.
«We don't know what heft
test scores should have in performance reviews — no one does because the concept is too new and untested — but
if the
scores will indeed prove helpful, [LAUSD Superintendent] Deasy would do better by starting with a
lower figure until the evaluation system proves its worth.»
Chronic absenteeism in kindergarten, and even pre-K, can predict
lower test scores, repeated patterns of poor attendance and retention in later grades, especially
if the problem persists for more than a year.
New arrivals with little
if any fluency in English, have
lower test scores than English Language Learners (ELLs) who are close to exiting services.
She said: «We need to look at, for example, should children on free school meals be able to enter grammar schools
if they have
lower than the average [
test score] that is required in Kent?
Hey,
if you can't get the
test scores up high enough, just don't have the
lower performing students take the
test.
Worse, the attitude that
if a child fails a
test she should take comfort that it is only a «brief failure» is completely out of touch with the severely punitive nature of high - stakes
testing these days, in which a
low test score can mean a student does not graduate, teachers are fired, and whole schools are shut down.
If I graded a set of assessments with surprisingly
low scores, I would be able to look at my chart and say to myself, «Huh, I wonder why they missed that question about exponents on the
test.
This is also the main way points are awarded, so
if a school has
low test scores, they'll end up with a
low A-F grade.
If a
test does not contain a wide range of items, it will artificially limit the
scores of very
low and very high - performing students.