Sentences with phrase «on poor test results»

Not exact matches

Blackburn Rovers put their strong home record of just two Ewood Park defeats well and truly to the test on Saturday against a Birmingham side whom, despite some poor recent away results, have been a difficult team to overcome on the road this season.

Inconsistency, a poor defence, a friendly fixture list — these arguments have been crushed by impressive results in the most testing period of the season thus far — so instead the focus is placed on the fact we are yet to face our two most likely rivals — Chelsea and Manchester City.

On the other hand, estimates put the North Korean alleged H - bomb detonation in just six kilotons, a poorer result than the 2013 atomic test.

But she admitted there is still a large gap in the test scores of children from richer schools, where around two - thirds scored highly on the tests, and the results in poorer schools.

As many Nigerians trooped out onto the streets of Lagos, Abuja and other cities on Monday February 6, 2016 protesting poor governance, a worsening economy, increasing poverty and degenerating standards of living in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari's spokesmen had late the previous evening informed Nigerians that the holidaying leader, who they had till then insisted was «hale and hearty» would no longer be returning on Monday due to «some tests» which results he would have to await.

But she admits there's still a large gap in the tests scores of children from richer schools, where around two thirds scored highly on the tests, and the results in poorer schools.

But if your heart is set on being a concert violinist, and your test results suggest this is a poor match, go with your heart.

Regardless, the results are worrying, she said, because children who live in poor neighborhoods are, on average, a year behind academically, according to standardized math, reading and writing assessment tests of the students.

The results of eye tests carried out as part of last year's annual survey of the health of schoolchildren were the worst on record, with the highest ever number of children having sight classed as «extremely poor».

Although recent studies suggest an association between erectile dysfunction and atherosclerotic vascular disease, this is the first study to link ED with abnormal results on cardiac stress testing, including evidence for severe coronary artery blockages and markers of a poor cardiovascular prognosis.

For instance, physical inactivity is linked to poorer results on standard neuropsychological tests as well as academic performance, though exercise appears to improve attention, decision making and memory.

Given such weak links, an economic system that depended on test results for job selection would be massively inefficient: it would simultaneously reject many capable applicants and accept many poor performers.

With states now appropriately crafting accountability frameworks that focus not just on test scores but on multiple measures, we also will hear less heated rhetoric about the consequences of poor results.

The bottom line: reading comprehension is a slow - growing plant, and the demand for rapid results on annual tests may be encouraging poor classroom practice — giving kids a sugar rush of test preparation, skills, and strategies when a well - rounded diet of knowledge and vocabulary is what's really needed to grow good readers.

But she admitted there is still a large gap in the test scores of children from richer schools, where around two - thirds scored highly on the tests, and the results in poorer schools.

That number is small compared to the Atlanta and Philadelphia scandals, yet with more state policies — like teacher evaluations, merit pay, and takeovers of schools with poor ISTEP + scores — riding on students» scores on state tests, state officials, education experts, and parents told StateImpact Indiana they see these pressures to get results as incentives for teachers who can't hack it to bend the rules on state tests.

However, if the NAEP results are accurate, it is not true that poor children are now at least getting the basics: the score increases on state (or local, as in Chicago) tests simply indicates that somewhat different particular things are taught, but overall NAEP results show there usually is no improvement in states which test the most and use tests for high - stakes decisions about students.

Poor test results can trigger an avalanche of interventions, based on a presumption of school failure, which are distracting at best and career ending at worst.

Northern had gone from being predominantly white and high performing to having mostly black students and poor academic results — three quarters of the sophomore and senior classes scored below the national average on math, science, and reading tests.

If «proficient» and «highly proficient» are achievement labels that should be reserved for students likely to go to a four year college or university, then education reform advocates have never effectively made that case to the public, preferring instead to point to the results on state testing that have been designed with this specific result in mind and declaring themselves correct about how poor a job our nation's schools are doing.

Faced with American students» poor results on international tests, a state - based movement arose several years ago to try to raise education standards through a program known as «Common Core.»

From the results of the studies mentioned above, we might at first conclude that value - added on one test is a poor measure of a teacher's effectiveness at teaching the content and skill measured by other tests.

Given the findings of our report on the Smarter Balanced tests, it is our firm belief that an examination of the results from Smarter Balanced would mirror the findings on PARCC: A substantial factor in the failure of many students on the Smarter Balanced tests in 2015 was poor test design and implementation.

As a result, schools have been turned into testing factories and thousands of low - scoring public schools that serve the poorest students have been closed and replaced by corporate charter schools that, on average, perform no better than the underfunded schools they replace.

The disparity for students in the Latino subgroup with poor test results is especially stark: More than 95 percent are missing out on extra state support.

On Youtube there is a 23 min long CR video talking about the latest CR reliability report that is pretty interesting # 18 I believe it has to do with the poor results of the crash tests, ditto for the new Corolla.

However, in the side barrier test, the head of the 10 year dummy contacted the metal frame of the folding roof and protection was rated as poor, based on the resulting high decelerations.

The surface of the bonnet provided good protection to the head of a struck pedestrian in almost all areas tested, with some poor results only on the stiff windscreen pillars.

Putting aside concerns about some of the assumptions in Deap — for instance assuming air permeability of homes without airtightness test results, when the evidence indicates that homes built in the second half of the 20th century may be much leakier than pre-war homes — HPAI's SEAI liaison officer John O'Shaughnessy said: «Deap is the preferred tool of the department and has proven to work on a lot of social and fuel poor energy upgrades in the past.»

For example, a student who worries about not doing well on a test may not study at all and then blame a resulting poor grade on that lack of studying.