Sentences with phrase «mean test scores»

That doesn't mean test scores are great — they're below average when they're compared to the state as a whole.

Cross-cohort changes in mean test scores from one year to the next were measured even more unreliably.

What does it mean that test scores have not risen much during the time of Obama's presidency?

The horizontal axis reflects the mean test score growth for high - SES students and the vertical axis reflects the mean test score growth for low - SES students.

Not exact matches

U.S. teens scored a mean 492 on the OECD test, eight points below the overall global mean of 500 — and more than 100 points below first - ranked Shanghai - China's 603.

I guess that just means you think you're special enough to your god that prayer would get you to have good test scores, but god will continue to let children around the world starve, get kidnapped, raped, and all sorts of horrific things, but it's a priority that you get good grades.

Eating breakfast improves academic performance, health, and behavior; that means better performance on standardized tests, improved concentration and memory, better math scores, better attendance and fewer tardies, as well as fewer behavioral referrals to the front office.

Officials say changes Illinois has made in how it categorizes student performance — called cut scores - on standardized tests mean parents and community members must look beyond the report to evaluate how well the...

Professor Luthar, among others, maintains that the pressure children are under to succeed — «and that means trophies and test scores and getting into the right college» — can also be counterproductive.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

A score of 4 or less means that further testing is needed.

Estimated cognitive test mean score differences according to breastfeeding status at age 6 months are given in Table 5.

Any indicator that does not score 10/10 on the report card means more needs to be done (the scores are not like a test result where a lower score is good enough for a pass).

ALBANY — A drive to repeal New York's legal requirement basing teacher job ratings largely on students» state tests scores ignited debate Monday over the question of whether repeal could mean «double testing» for students.

Jones added that «Their obsession with raising standardized test scores does not necessarily mean they are providing a great education.»

That has meant a steady watering down of tests and scoring systems that might expose incompetent teachers — even doing away with time limits on exams.

In this case, failing means student test scores are in the bottom 5 percent, test scores are getting worse instead of better, or the schools» graduation rates are below 60 percent for three consecutive years.

An older test group, he adds, would have a lower mean starting score and more variability in performance, leaving more room for training to cause meaningful improvement.

After recruiting more than 600 cohort members for their study, Ritchie and colleagues tracked their scores on a simple visual task three times over 10 years, repeating the test at the mean ages of 70, 73, and 76.

At the same time your score in standardised tests of learning and memory must fall at least one standard deviation below the mean score for 26 - year - olds.

Failing to correct for the Flynn effect can have even bigger consequences, as courts frequently consider IQ scores using tests introduced more than a decade earlier — meaning scores can be inflated by 3 or more points (see «Life or death ``, below).

First, the tests have a margin of error, which means that a score should be interpreted as lying within a range, not a hard - and - fast number.

We used the composite score (mean [± SD], 100 ± 16) to represent IQ, because it is similar to the IQ score of other intelligence tests.18, 19 A different examiner administered an abbreviated Stanford — Binet Scale at each age.

To determine whether expression of PD - L1 in nephrectomy specimens can be used as a surrogate for expression in the sites of metastases (and vice versa), we examined the correlation of marker expression (mean AQUA scores for all four cores) between the matched specimens using the Pearson correlation test.

Interpreting AQ Score Aspergers Test Quiz Results What does the AQ Score you got actually mean?

Does similarity mean there is a zero difference between you and the other person on a test score?

Local parents of elementary - age kids have set out to make Hogg a school they and their neighbors want to send their kids to, which means higher test scores, tighter discipline, and a college - prep curriculum - changes they believe will benefit all children, not just their own.

GreatSchools.org, through its GreatKids initiative, offers a Test Guide for Parents that walks families through score reports, what the results mean, and how they can help their kids do better.

«Using student test scores to sanction teachers and schools makes it more likely they will adjust their behaviour to protect themselves, which may mean leaving the weakest learners behind,» explains Manos Antoninis, Director of the GEM Report.

By good I mean that they score comparatively well on state tests, have a goodly number of students who receive passing scores on Advanced Placement tests, send a majority of graduates off to college, and enjoy the support of their respective communities.

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)

«Some supporters of the Act contend that early gains in state test scores mean that the Act is being administered effectively and is succeeding, so no changes are needed.

However, it would be a waste not to use the transition year to tell students, teachers and parents where they stand relative to the new standards, and that means giving all students the opportunity to participate in the test, scoring all their tests and providing them with a score.

I then use the improvements of the median reading test score for initial 3rd - grade students on the FCAT since 2001 in order to rescale the state's mean NAEP test score in the spring of the same year.

This means that in many of California's public high schools, students can graduate, but they won't be able to get into a UC or CSU college even if they have a good GPA and good test scores.

With respect to students and test scores, reversion to the mean suggests that students with scores in the upper or lower tail of the test - score distribution are likely to perform closer to the average when tested more than once.

By comparing each student's gain to gains among students who performed at a similar level and would have experienced a similar, natural shift toward the average score, I can better separate legitimate test - score gains and losses from change associated with mean reversion.

Both tests are scored on a scale of 0 - 1,000, with a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100; however, the true range of values lies between the 300s and the 600s.

Rather than provide the best means for confronting «difficult truths about the inequality of America's political economy,» such a pedagogy produces the swindle of «blaming inequalities on individuals and groups with low test scores.»

That means that all students are entitled to take the same test, with or without accommodations, flagged appropriately, to assure the requisite comparability of scores.

For our February 2003 survey of principals, that meant evaluating scores on the spring 2003 tests.

The chief issue confronting the panel was whether the scores of students taking the test under standard conditions and with accommodations are «comparable» — in other words, whether they have the same weight and meaning and predict freshman GPAs with the same degree of accuracy.

In other words, the standards require test administrators to note when a test has been taken under modified conditions unless there is «credible evidence» that the scores of students who took the test under standard and modified conditions are comparable — that is, that the scores carry the same meaning and weight.

Test scores indicate that the strategy is working, too, but that doesn't mean all parents have been thrilled.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

Does that mean that we shouldn't use test scores to hold individual schools accountable?

This all means that why test scores are going up is quite important.

[13] Our outcome of interest is the third or fifth - grade score on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT)[14] taken in the relevant year between 1999 and 2012, which we standardize statewide at the grade and year level to have a mean of zero and standard deviation of one.

While this means that some of the students, whose test scores are included in the school's performance measure, may have only been in that school for a relatively short time, it avoids problems associated with excluding the high - mobility students - typically the lowest - performing students - from the district's overall accountability measure.

Don't take test scores to mean more than they do.