Sentences with phrase «on test scores at»

The peer - reviewed paper focuses on test scores at public middle schools near a state boundary.

But with noteworthy improvements on test scores at the schools using the program, as well as some gentle encouragement from the district and support from MIND Research Institute, the number of DCPS schools using the program is steadily increasing.

And lead a campaign against high - stakes decision - making based on test scores at the same time she firms up her union's support of the Common Core.

Critics fear that parent triggers will transform the school system into an assembly line of identically run schools that focus on test scores at the expense of teacher autonomy in the classroom.

And she wants to lead a campaign against high - stakes decision - making based on test scores at the same time she firms up her union's support of the Common Core.

Gormley finds that Tulsa's pre-k program has significant effects on test scores at kindergarten readiness for all three groups.

Not exact matches

Among the 18 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's assessment, the U.S. ranked at best eighth and at worst 12th, based on the range of scores from its 1,133 students tested.

In order to be eligible for the Army's Loan Repayment Program, the applicant is required to enlist in the Army with at least a high school diploma, score at least a 50 on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, hold a loan that is guaranteed under the Higher Education ACT, agree to serve in a critical military occupational specialty, have a written contract, and decline Montgomery GI Bill enrollment.

Judge and co-author John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the Warrington College of Business looked at data collected as part of a multi-decade study that followed more than 1,500 California children who had scored high on intelligence tests.

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After scoring a 10 out of 10 on this «Religious Test», I found it did not test my knowledge at Test», I found it did not test my knowledge at test my knowledge at all.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

Beginning in 1986, the rule stipulated, entering freshmen would be eligible for scholarships only if they had achieved a grade point average of at least 2.0 in a college - preparatory core curriculum and, when it came to the two standard college entrance examinations, attained a minimum score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or 15 on the American College Testing Program's exam.

Rahlves, meanwhile, has never been healthier, having scored PR's on fitness and power testing last month at team headquarters in Park City, Utah.

The bad news is that Kane is now well and truly over his early season struggles in front of goal and has scored four times in his last two Premier League games and got their Europa League opener last night, Hopefully Laurent Koscielny will pass his fitness test because we will need to be at our defensive best on Sunday to cope with the danger of Kane.

«It's false,» Slavin said, adding that Vander Esch scored a «4 out of 5» on his medical evaluations at the NFL Scouting Combine and was not asked to return for further tests.

The Tangerines have endeared themselves to everyone and on Tuesday will provide Sunderland with one of their most testing home encounters in the whole of 2010 simply because they aren't like other sides, they've never heard of the word fear at inside a stadium which has been nothing short of a fortress for the hosts, and Holloway's men will go their with an attacking intent and a purpose to score goals, plenty of them as well.

I am with you on that Pablo, in theory we should have 75 — 80 mill to spend, I wouldn't put Zabaletta in the 2 or 3 quality players, he is decent offensively but plays in a team that rarely has to defend, Moses looks decent doing that at Chelsea, all too often Byram has been exposed by not having any defensive assistance if we sign him will be interesting to see how he is defensively because he will be tested in our team, Batshuayi would be a quality addition but he is still only a reserve for Chelski and I don't think he could do what Costa has for them or for us, imo we would still need another striker to lead the line, maybe Josh King if the rumours are true, what hasn't been mentioned too much is the left wing slots, none of ours are particulary great most of them seem to prefer the right side, if we don't go for Nolito maybe have a punt on Grosicki from Hull, we were interested in him previously and he is a very quick player that can create and score goals.

At Challenge Success, we believe that our society has become too focused on grades, test scores, and performance, leaving little time for kids to develop the necessary skills to become resilient, ethical, and motivated learners.

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

I couldn't help but see in him a personification of education these days — our focus on test - scores, assessment, standards, ranking and comparison, as well as a correlating misunderstanding of the importance of play (at one point in the film, a boy confronts this adult: «But they are toys!

46 % had at least one score on the ImPACT computerized neurocognitive test which decreased by a statistically significant amount from their baseline;

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine studied eighth grade math students and found gum chewers scored 3 percent better on standardized math tests and achieved better final grades (Wrigley Science Institute, 2009).

Studies show that children who eat breakfast at the start of their school day have higher math and reading scores, and demonstrate a sharper memory and faster speeds on cognitive tests.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

Duckworth was a co-author on a paper published last year that compared self - reporting on grit, self - control and conscientiousness with actual test scores and behavior data of students at 32 Boston schools.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

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However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

They found that the babies of nursing moms who had consumed at least one alcoholic drink each day did not differ in measures of cognitive development from babies of teetotaling moms, but that they did score lower on tests of motor skills.

Results Adjusting for sociodemographics, maternal intelligence, and home environment in linear regression, longer breastfeeding duration was associated with higher Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test score at age 3 years (0.21; 95 % CI, 0.03 - 0.38 points per month breastfed) and with higher intelligence on the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test at age 7 years (0.35; 0.16 - 0.53 verbal points per month breastfed; and 0.29; 0.05 - 0.54 nonverbal points per month breastfed).

Studies have shown that students who eat breakfast at school score better on standardized tests and skip school or are tardy less often.

Parents should, of course, help kids reduce the sources of stress — not over-scheduling them or excessively focusing on grades and test scores — but they can also dramatically reframe stress, away from avoiding it at all costs to trying to manage the bad and leverage the good.

Children who were breastfed in infancy had significantly higher scores on IQ tests at both ages, even after adjusting for social class and education, confirming the earlier findings and extending them to a predominantly full - term sample.

For motor development, we can not reject the null hypothesis, even though we found borderline significant trends towards lower scores on motor developmental tests both at 13 months, and at 5 years of age (balance score).

Instead we found that a shorter duration of breast feeding was associated with lower scores on mental developmental tests both at 13 months and at 5 years of age.

Babies born to mothers who had higher blood levels of DHA scored better on the attention tests until 6 months of age, and they scored better on different tests designed to measure visual learning in older babies at 1 year and 18 months.

New York education policymakers will begin looking at ways to measure school success and failure based on factors other than test scores.

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In schools that are focused on achieving high scores on the state tests, she said, the curriculum becomes geared towards test day at the expense of deeper learning.

At least going by his rhetoric, he seems to have almost declared war on the teacher unions and he has proposed a new system of evaluation, which is more heavily based on students» tests scores than the one currently in use.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

Some real - life changes, however, are being made in a number of schools around the country that focus on the critical - thinking skills of one student at a time instead of the collective test scores of a class, or a whole school, or a state.

The ACT has scheduled a makeup exam on Jan. 14 for 53 students whose answer sheets went missing after taking the test at Roslyn High School in October, which has left them lacking scores to submit on their college applications.

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

The ten are those who scored highest in Level II [an aptitude test], that was organized on Saturday [October 21] at the British Council in Accra.

Does anyone recall that the Governor came in at the last minute of the SED regulation development process on teacher evaluations and asked the Regents for changes in the proposed regulations to include greater emphasis on test scores than the original legislation prescribed?

In fact, after last year's Open House at which scores of parents signed up for the G&T test on site, the number of Bronx children taking the G&T test for entry to Kindergarten increased by over 13 percent whereas in other boroughs the testing rate stayed flat or even decreased.

De Blasio spokesman Dan Levitan wouldn't comment on the possibility of running against Donovan, but cited a record the mayor will run on next year that includes, «crime just hit another all - time low, jobs are at record highs, the city is building and preserving affordable housing at a record pace, while graduation rates and test scores continue to improve.»