Sentences with phrase «on verbal tests»

But it's harder for parents to stay involved when they work long hours: Young children whose mothers or fathers work more than 40 hours per week score worse on verbal tests than children whose parents work full time.

Because of these nutrients, some research suggests that school - age children eating meat perform better on verbal tests.

Since the right hemisphere is involved in spatial tasks and the left hemisphere is involved in verbal tasks, the researchers thought volunteers who received stimulation on the right side while training on spatial tasks would improve on spatial tests and those who received stimulation on the left side while training on verbal tasks would improve on verbal tests.

Because of these nutrients, some research suggests that school - age children eating meat perform better on verbal tests.

The researchers found that the reform had small positive effects on verbal test scores, but no effect on the mean performance in the arithmetic or logical reasoning tests.

Not exact matches

Based on the verbal and nonverbal data that can be acquired in therapy, the therapist must continually test out various hypotheses as to the real nature of the patient's illness in an attempt to help the patient better cope with his or her world.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

In addition, because it tests for verbal memory, the SAC can not identify athletes who may suffer measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI), resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the head.

As Dr. Leverenz told MomsTEAM after publication of the first Purdue study, the limitation of screening tools currently being used to assess neurocognitive function on the sports sideline, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC)[21] and the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3)[22], is that they test verbal memory, not the visual memory which he and the Purdue researchers found impaired in the functionally, but not clinically impaired, players who experienced at least short - term neurologic trauma from RHI.

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.

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).

In 2007, researchers reported in the journal Early Human Development that children who had received no DHA in formula or breast milk during the first 17 weeks of life had poorer visual acuity at age 4, and did worse on language tests showing verbal IQ, than those who fed breast milk.

People with mild cognitive impairment were defined as those who have a slight decline in cognition, mainly in memory in terms of remembering sequences or organization, and who score lower on tests such as the California Verbal Learning Test, which requires participants to recall a list of related words, such as a shopping list.

In the California Verbal Learning Test, on a scale of 0 to 80, with 80 reflecting the best memory, the healthy participants had an average score of 55.8, whereas those with mild cognitive impairment scored an average of 40.5.

The woman, a 59 - year - old former hotel manager from Italy, fared about average on verbal IQ tests and had a good memory, but when Butterworth's Italian colleagues asked her to count, she would start, «uno, due, tre, quattro,» and then stall.

Children were assessed on verbal cognitive abilities using standardized IQ tests during each assessment.

A slew of studies in adults have found that nonusers beat chronic weed smokers on tests of attention, memory, motor skills and verbal abilities, but some of this might be the result of lingering traces of cannabis in the body of users or withdrawal effects from abstaining while taking part in a study.

Like the original test, it will include exercises focused on naming objects and animals, verbal fluency, calculation, clock time, abstraction and memory.

«Despite the fact that the literature describes only correlation between verbal memory tests and hippocampal cell densities in patients with left hippocampal sclerosis, we found a correlation between right hippocampal cell densities and performance on visual memory tests, including both immediate and delayed recall,» says authors Sandra Mara Comper and Anaclara Prada Jardim, students in the laboratory of Dr. Elza Marcia Yacubian at the Federal University of São Paulo.

For a paper published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, the researchers observed the EEG measures of 13 autistic children and 13 neurotypical children (children with a mean age of 10 years old without an intellectual deficiency or sleep problem and who were not on medication) and found that disruptions in protective brain waves during sleep are associated with lower results on verbal IQ tests.

In terms of cognitive disability, the researchers found that in the subgroup of MS patients who underwent neuropsychological testing, those with more cerebral microbleeds had higher disability on verbal and other cognitive function tests.

The study analyzed parenting behaviors and whether they had an effect on verbal intelligence as measured by the Picture Vocabulary Test (PVT).

Hill claims that on the basis of these tests he was then subjected to extreme and prolonged verbal and physical abuse, the police claiming that «he was covered in gelignite».

Over a two - month trial, all six subjects in the control group showed a decline in the activation of the left hippocampus, which processes auditory memory, and on average deteriorated on tests of verbal recall.

This initial model was tested in a study where participants rated the funniness of verbal puns, as well as the funniness of variants of these jokes (e.g. the punchline on its own, the set - up on its own).

Believing that traditional psychometric tests are too abstract and crude to assess memory loss in normal people, Wesnes and Crook developed a battery of computerised tests based on everyday tasks involving verbal and visual recall.

Researchers found that people who engaged in more regular sexual activity scored higher on tests that measured their verbal fluency and their ability to visually perceive objects and the spaces between them.

Dr Bromley and her team performed tests on their children to measure IQ, verbal and non-verbal comprehension, and the speed at which they could process visual information.

Compared with uninfected individuals, people who tested positive for H. pylori performed worse on cognitive tests, including ones assessing verbal memory.

Between 2004 and 2014, 477 patients treated with BMT at City of Hope underwent standardized neuropsychological testing before their transplant, and at the six - month and one -, two - and three - year marks after transplant; testing was conducted on eight cognitive domains, including executive function, verbal fluency and speed, processing speed, working memory, visual and auditory memory, and fine motor dexterity.

Among veterans with predicted exposure to the Khamisiyah plume, smaller hippocampus volume was correlated with lower scores on a test of verbal learning and memory.

UA researchers considered survey respondents» self - reports of physical health and quality of life, as well as their scores on cognition tests measuring verbal fluency, word recall and delayed word recall.

On a test designed to measure verbal and mathematical reasoning, for instance, men who were 65 to 70 years old at the beginning of the study saw their scores decline by 10 %, on averagOn a test designed to measure verbal and mathematical reasoning, for instance, men who were 65 to 70 years old at the beginning of the study saw their scores decline by 10 %, on averagon average.

For example, while women could recall an average of 25.8 words on the verbal memory test at age 43, that figure dipped to 23.3 words by age 69.

You can measure verbal or math skills by determining whether a student is right or wrong on a test — in other words, whether they're learning or not.

But of the characteristics and attitudinal factors that were measured, «those that bear the highest relationship to pupil achievement are first, the teacher's score on the verbal skills test, and then his educational background — both his own level of education and that of his parents.»

The average verbal score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test hits an all - time low, the College Board reports.

To be defined as high - achieving, we required that students score in the top 10 percent of test - takers on the College Board's SAT I or the ACT (1,300 math plus verbal on the SAT, 28 on the ACT).

As Hanushek wrote in 1989, «Perhaps the closest thing to a consistent conclusion across studies is the finding that teachers who perform well on verbal ability tests do better in the classroom.»

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

However, Goldhaber notes (in an earlier Education Next article) that, in general, while teachers who perform well on tests of verbal ability tend to perform better in the classroom, «the things that make schools and teachers effective defy easy measurement.»

Students who score well on the verbal SAT invariably possess a broad vocabulary that represents broad general knowledge - which is hardly surprising, given that the verbal SAT is essentially an advanced vocabulary test.

Groups of students took tests comprising the most difficult items on the verbal GRE exam.

Studies have found that graduating from a good college and achieving high scores on tests of verbal aptitude are reasonable, though highly imperfect, indicators of teacher quality.

They have traditionally used questions based on verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning, and it is argued that those who have been intensively tutored tend to do much better in these tests.

For the teachers that don't teach a subject measured on the test, the state still uses the students verbal and math test scores.

On a verbally administered test, even profoundly dyslexic kids can score high on a verbal section if they are exposed to vocabulary in other wayOn a verbally administered test, even profoundly dyslexic kids can score high on a verbal section if they are exposed to vocabulary in other wayon a verbal section if they are exposed to vocabulary in other ways.

You might hear that a wide variation between verbal and performance scales on an IQ test (depending who you talk to, 2 or 3 standard deviations or 30 or 45 + standard scale points) for example, indicates a learning disability.

The Educational Testing Service's Official GRE Super Power Pack, available on Kindle and in print, includes three official prep books for the GRE: The Official Guide to the GRE, the Official GRE Quantitative Reasoning Questions and the Official GRE Verbal Reasoning Questions.

The researcher relied on verbal reports from the teachers regarding student outcomes and did not directly collect data on student testing or academic improvement.