Sentences with phrase «more gain scores»

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Scoring a gain of more than 50 % on a stock trade of only a few weeks duration may seem unusual, but it actually is not.

As such, the ETF and stock picks in the model trading accounts of our Wagner Daily swing trading newsletter scored a solid combined gain of 4.8 % during that same two - month period (an outperformance of the main stock market indexes by more than 11 % for the months of April and May).

Recently, we scored more than a 20 % gain from trading a high - momentum semiconductor stock.

Georgia Tech and UNC both have top - 25 units, but those two teams combined to gain 901 yards (5.6 per play) and score 53 points; the only reason they didn't score more was because they turned the ball over five times.

I would like that to continue and see him gain enough confidence to shoot and score more when in a promising position.

As they gain more experience so will they acquire better skills and score more goals.

More grist for the calculator: Woods leads the tour in several categories, including putting (strokes gained and total), eagles, and scoring average.

Kane's 86th - minute winner means that Tottenham have now gained 12 points from goals scored in the last five minutes of Premier League matches this season — six more than any other side.

Barkley was loaned out to Sheffield Wednesday in 2012/13 season for gaining more first - team experience but his loan - term, in which he scored 4 goals in 13 appearances, was cut short, despite being awarded Sheffield Wednesday's Player of the Month award for October.

According to Tiffany Field of the University of Miami's Touch Research Institute, a center devoted to studying the effects of touch on health, children who receive massage «gain more weight, score higher in development, are less irritable and go to sleep more easily.»

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

People who scored high on standard tests for creativity were also more likely to be willing to cheat for personal gain.

The youngest of them made the most dramatic gains: On average, these first - graders increased their IQ scores by more than 27 points.

This split is based on alternating pushing and pulling movements, which allows you to work different muscles at different rates, train more often and score some insane gains in no time.

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Soon turning up in such features as The Long Kiss Goodnight and Rounders, the natural beauty began to gain even more footing in her feature aspirations with her turn in the Robert DeNiro heist - thriller The Score in 2001.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

The unique marriage worked: Zimmer won his first and only Oscar in 1994 for The Lion King before gaining more renown with scores for a battery of action movies for directors Ron Howard (Backdraft), Tony Scott (Crimson Tide), and Michael Bay (The Rock).

The largest gains for the test — the Kentucky Instructional Results System, or KIRIS — came in reading and mathematics, with fewer students scoring at the «novice,» or lowest, level and more students scoring at the «proficient» and «distinguished» levels.

The estimated gain from being offered a voucher is only half as large as the gain from switching to private school (in response to being offered a voucher), so the estimated impact of offering vouchers is no more than one - eighth as large as the black - white test score gap.

To produce the same gain in writing scores, per - pupil spending would have to be increased by $ 2,805, more than a 50 percent increase.

While these schools succeed in generating test - score gains for students of all cognitive abilities, it is still the case that students with strong fluid cognitive skills learn more.

In the school with more teachers, the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classroom.

These strong long - term outcomes — which tend to be much more significant than any short - term test - score gains — likely reflect Catholic schools» focus on discipline and character as much as their excellent academics.

Focusing only on charters making the biggest achievement score gains would miss those charters with more modest achievement results but truly impressive attainment outcomes.

Since the passing percentage does not reveal what happened to all students, the graph reports average scores for the two years, a more conservative presentation of the gains than one based on passing rates.

Several studies, including our own, clearly demonstrate that teacher evaluation systems that are based on a number of components, such as classroom observation scores and test - score gains, are already much more effective at predicting future teacher performance than paper credentials and years of experience.

Third, the student responses were more correlated with teachers» student - achievement gains in math and ELA than the observation scores were.

In our study, the teachers with larger gains on low - cost state math tests also had students with larger gains on the Balanced Assessment in Mathematics, a more - expensive - to - score test designed to measure students» conceptual understanding of mathematics.

Either could explain why 4th - grade scores were up throughout the state, and student gains in Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers were even more impressive than in Gotham (see Hanushek, «Pseudo-Science»).

The council's Beating the Odds VI report, a city - by - city analysis of student performance, recently revealed that urban students» scores on state assessments in reading and math as well as on the more rigorous federal test — the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- are rising, with urban students making the most gains in mathematics.

When Mr. Obama first moved to phase out the D.C. voucher program in 2009, his Education Department was in possession of a federal study showing that voucher recipients, who number more than 3,300, made gains in reading scores and didn't decline in math.

Some think gains are more easily realized if students are already accomplished, while others think those with high scores have neared a ceiling, making it difficult to raise their scores further.

The presumption is that the higher the initial scores, the more difficult it is to elicit substantial gains; in other words, the state's scores were approaching a «ceiling.»

They suggest that in a school with more teachers, «the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classroom.»

So I would expect more steady - state on NAEP scores for the time being, with our next big chance for major gains coming in 2015.

Under the new rules, private schools with 30 or more FTC scholarship students must release to the public gain scores on standardized tests for those students.

It's true that students from those schools who did enroll in post-secondary schooling were more likely to go to a 4 than 2 year college, but it is unclear if this is a desirable outcome given that it may be a mismatch for their needs and this more nuanced effect is not commensurate with the giant test score gains.

The study also found that those colleges that responded by graduating more low - scoring students have suffered the least and are gaining a larger share of the shrinking market.

Given this simple dichotomy, the public says test - score gains should be given more than half the weight (62 percent) in making salary and tenure decisions.

More than 20 states now require that student test - score gains be used in key personnel decisions, often including tenure and salary determinations.

Notably, more low - income students gained access to government aid under gratuidad because the program does not require students to meet a test - score cutoff, unlike the system of grants and loans it partially replaced.

Then, we examine whether the test - score gains in tracking schools were concentrated among simpler or more complex tasks and whether this varied by students» initial achievement levels.

These effects are all larger than what would have been predicted based on the same students» test - score gains, leading the researchers to conclude that «high achieving charter schools alter more than cognitive ability.»

Posttests showed significant learning gains for both conditions, with the students in the QA condition scoring significantly higher than the students in the traditional condition, and retaining significantly more information at the time of a delayed posttest.

What's more, significantly improved predictive power from a mixture of classroom observations with test score gains could have made the case for why we need both.

It's time that people start paying a lot more attention to this pattern of a disconnect between short term test score gains and long term life outcomes.

After Virginia increased the level of difficulty of its tests in recent years, scores had fallen, but the gains in the 2014 - 2015 school year reflect an upward trend attributed in part to teachers and students becoming accustomed to the more rigorous tests.

Many would agree that these outcomes — college graduation, employment, wages, marriage and homeownership — matter more than test scores and the SAT, or gaining entry to college.

All schools with at least 30 students in grades 3 — 10 in two or more consecutive years will have standardized test score gains analyzed by state researchers.