Sentences with phrase «only higher test scores»

We have seen not only higher test scores, but attitudes of the children have changed for the better.

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Both the High Veg Pots and Soup & Dippers achieved outstanding scores when tested with consumers, which is very promising for retailers as only 10 % of new products achieve this rating.»

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In the Houston study, when there was some minimal improvement in test scores, it was only among the highest - achieving students, not the low achievers.

If you only praise your child for getting 100 on a test, or for scoring the most goals in the game, your child may think your love is conditional on high achievement.

Only those with high incomes, stable jobs and high scores on language / integration tests can live with their family.

Although thousands of black and Hispanic kids take the admissions test each year, only a handful score high enough to get in.

The problem is that raw scores on intelligence tests actually peak in our teens, remain high for a few years, and then decline throughout life; iq remains fairly stable only because people decline at roughly the same rate.

Only laboratory tests can determine a food's glycemic index, and the results can be unexpected: Apples score low, but cantaloupe scores high.

One 2013 paper found that, more than 7 years after the procedures, open - heart surgery patients scored slightly higher on cognitive tests than did people who underwent less invasive angioplasty, which requires only a local anesthetic.

This vacuum stems not only from the difficulty of the endeavor but also from a persistent national clash between an obsession to train students solely for high scores on multiple - choice tests and an angry disenchantment with measuring progress of public schools, educators, or education schools.

Individuals are only included in the findings if they scored «high» or «very high» on the various domains during both tests.

Not only do the lottery students have higher test scores than students at the eligibility cutoff, but their test scores exceed those of the average G&T student in the district.

Of course, increased sleep is not the only possible reason later - starting middle - school students have higher test scores.

The authors caution that test scores are not the only way in which programs for high - achieving students should be assessed.

Only one in nine high - school students uses outside coaching courses to prepare for the Scholastic Aptitude Test, but those who do so rate them as helpful in raising scores, according to a new survey by the College Board.

Only 939 out of the approximately 1.4 million high school seniors who took the test this calendar year achieved that perfect score, according to the College Board, which sponsors the exam.

And, according to international comparative tests (PISA — Programme for International Student Assessment, PIRLS — Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, and TIMMS — Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study), «children with at least two years of preschool achieve much higher scores at age 15 than those who attend no preschool or only one year».

Using 2015 test - score data and comparing schools with similar percentages of low - income kids, charters outperform DPS - operated schools at the middle and high school level but not at the elementary level, where there are only 10 charters.

Since the Colorado Growth Model compares students only to those who had similar test scores in the past, a student can show «high growth» by gaining five months of learning a year if the comparison group is only gaining four months.

Last week, I argued that Hitt, McShane, and Wolf erred in including programs in their review of «school choice» studies that were only incidentally related to school choice or that have idiosyncratic designs that would lead one to expect a mismatch between test score gains and long - term impacts (early college high schools, selective enrollment high schools, and career and technical education initiatives).

Only 10 percent of parents identified higher standardized - test scores as one of their top five reasons for choosing a private school, and none identified it as their top reason.

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.

The Arkansas Department of Education has announced that students who score at level 3 or above on new Common Core tests will be deemed «proficient,» even though the makers of the test say that only students who score at level 4 or above are on track to graduate from high school with the skills they need to be ready for college or a career.

Yet even with the expansion of the AP program in recent years, only about a third of American students take at least one exam, and less than a quarter pass at least one test with a score of three or higher.

And despite having built many a bridge to literature for my students, they have been, at best, temporary structures, sturdy enough only to pass a test, score a bit higher on the SAT, or write an argument in a predictable form.

Notes: • We report ACT or SAT scores only if they are a state's only mandated high school test.

Although Skyline and Castlemont required students to apply and show that they had taken the necessary prerequisites to take AP courses, only 31 percent — or 61 of the 194 students who took AP tests in English, math or science subjects at both schools combined last year — scored a 3 or higher.

In a 2013 survey, only 10 percent of parents of students receiving tax - credit scholarships in Georgia listed «higher standardized test scores» as one of their top five reasons that they chose their child's school.

For juniors, the only incentive to take the test was the chance to skip a placement exam for Washington state colleges and universities if they scored high enough.

Specifically, we've called for giving teachers tools to use assessments to inform instruction, minimizing test prep (which research suggests does not necessarily lead to increased test scores), focusing on student growth rather than absolute proficiency, and using test scores as only one measure among many in high - stakes decisions.

If I had to bet on which intervention is most likely to work at scale, I'd be inclined to bet on a massive data set that found positive effects on test scores rather than a very narrow data set of three studies where only two study found higher degree attainment.

In a district like mine, with high poverty and minority representation in the schools and terrible academic outcomes, it is an unfortunate given among those middle class people who have succeeded in school (or think they have) that the only reason that the district has such lousy test scores and graduation rates is «the parents.»

The only justification for the pervasive policy of trying to increase test scores is that future national economic success will go to the nations with the highest scores.

But even if the was no question that the higher test scores actually reflected increased performance, it would still only be one study.

Moreover, ACT Inc., which began measuring college readiness as the American College Testing Program in the 1950s, reports that among the college aspirants who took its admission exams last year, only 21 percent of the graduating seniors attained scores high enough in all four subjects — English, reading, math, and science — to indicate that they wouldn't need to take a no - credit remedial course when they entered college.

In addition, the new report includes a broader range of student outcomes, examining not only state test results in reading and math, but also test scores in science and social studies; results on a nationally normed assessment that includes measures of higher - order thinking; and behaviors reported by students and parents.

On average, Finnish students do only about three hours of homework a week, yet in 2012 they scored sixth highest in the world in reading and 12th highest in math on the OECD's international test, known as PISA or Programme for International Student Assessment.

It didn't matter that assessment experts repeatedly said standardized test scores should not be used for high - stakes decisions and are only a narrow window into how well a student is performing.

Last year, it was one of only two schools in California to receive federal recognition as a Title I Distinguished School for its high test scores.

So is propagating myths about Harlem Success — that it only succeeds because it has smaller class sizes; or that its children's test scores are so high because it gets more money.

The following test prep books can not only help with learning the fine details of the new exam, they can give you the strategies you need to master each section and get the highest New SAT score you possibly can.

I've also be clear that I believe the reason the test scores are higher is that not only are classrooms sizes small etc. etc. but that AF and other charters are pulling those students that are less poor, speak primarily English, do not go home to households that don't have English as their primary language and have fewer special education needs.

On the eighth - grade science test, Arizona charter students would rank as the fourth highest - scoring state nationally, trailing only Utah, New Hampshire and Vermont.

Not only would this lower the quality of the data, but it would also raise the stakes of the tests: If you think the stakes are too high now, imagine being a fifth grader in a school where your score determines the results of the entire school.

«These findings support the view that high school performance is an excellent predictor of college success, and that efforts to recruit students from the full range of California high schools may help us fashion student bodies that are more socially diverse and more academically engaged than is possible when admissions criteria are based only on grades and test scores.

But last week, the same group of researchers produced a follow - up study on the Florida students, published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and it showed something startling: the charter students might not have produced higher test scores when they were in school, but years later, when they were in their mid-twenties, the charter school students earned more money, and were more likely to have attended at least two years of college (although still only half of them did so).

At Roberts, an alternative high school in Salem, Oregon, the focus is not only on boosting test scores but also on raising up the whole student — and the result is that academic success follows.

James Hubert Blake High School in Montgomery County, for instance, is similar in size and demographics to Jordan's school, Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J., yet Blake produced 660 students in 2013 with passing scores in AP tests compared with only 524 at Columbia.