Sentences with phrase «percent on your test scores»

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Better yet, when tested on the same material thirty days later, the interleaving group scored 76 percent better than the block - taught group.

When the devices were tuned up and turned on, the patients» scores on memory tests improved by up to 30 percent.

The same help, he said, was offered to him by his own instructors when he first began a tour of duty in which officers are expected to score 100 percent on the monthly written tests, and anything below 90 percent is a failing grade.

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).

Some gifted children become perfectionists, expecting themselves to get 100 percent scores on every test.

Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign reported in 2013 that on average, students who eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests; when combined, these factors translate into a student being twenty percent more likely to graduate high school.

Cuomo and lawmakers approve stricter rules raising the portion of teachers» evaluations based on student test scores to approximately 50 percent.

Most academic studies find that teachers account for between 1 percent and 14 percent of variability in student test scores, while Cuomo wants to base 50 percent of teacher evaluations on test scores.

He proposed revising teacher evaluations with half their scores based on their students» scores on state tests, up from 20 percent, and half based on classroom observations.

Wednesday's decision states that although 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation can still be based on test scores, half of those tests must be chosen by local school districts through collective bargaining with their union.

Though the student bodies in her schools have an overall poverty rate of 77 percent, they regularly register among the highest - scoring schools on standardized math and reading tests.

Under the current teacher and principal evaluation system, students» growth scores — a state - produced calculation that quantifies students» year - to - year improvement on standardized tests while controlling for factors like poverty — make up 20 percent of evaluations for teachers whose courses culminate in the state tests.

About 38,000 teachers, or 20 percent, had one - fifth of their evaluations based on their students» scores in the fourth - through eighth - grade English and math tests.

The law, which bases as much as 50 percent of teachers» job ratings on student test scores, was strengthened during a time when more rigorous standardized exams, based on the national Common Core academic standards, were being introduced into classrooms.

Cuomo has proposed revising teacher evaluations with half their scores based on their students» scores on state tests, up from 20 percent, and half based on classroom observations.

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.

Fariña, meanwhile, also panned Cuomo's proposals to make student scores on state tests account for 50 percent of a teacher's rating and to bring in outside experts to observe the teachers.

EDUCATION Mr. Cuomo proposed a new teacher rating system that would base 50 percent of an instructor's evaluation on student test scores — an increase from 20 percent.

Under his reform plan, Mr. Cuomo is suggesting that 50 percent of teacher assessments be based on student test scores instead of the current 20 percent.

According to Read to Succeed Executive Director Anne Ryan, students who miss 10 percent of kindergarten and first grade scored an average of 60 points below similar students with good attendance on third grade reading tests.

Evaluations will be based 40 percent on objective measures like test scores and 60 percent on subjective measures like classroom observation.

Some 20 percent of the evaluation (25 percent after two years) would be based on student scores on standardized tests.

Whatever the parties negotiate or King decides, the evaluation system will be based 20 percent on standardized test scores when applicable, 20 percent on other evidence of student learning and 60 percent on classroom observation and other measures of teacher effectiveness, in keeping with the 2010 state law on teacher evaluation.

Contreras said no more than 30 percent of teacher evaluations should be based on student test scores.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

On the respective scales utilized to test anxiety and depression, 41 percent of graduate students scored as having moderate to severe anxiety while 39 percent scored in the moderate to severe depression range.

The first group also scored up to 17 percent lower than the control group on multiple - choice tests, evidence that engaging in messaging unrelated to the class hurts student learning.

Students who learned using symbols scored 80 percent on a test requiring them to apply their knowledge in a novel situation; the others scored between 40 and 50 percent.

On that test the interleaved students scored 74 percent, the blocked ones a paltry 42 percent.

The first group scored an average of 74 percent when tested on the material, while the second group scored only 41 percent.

In the early 1970s researchers identified a large sample of U.S. 13 - year - olds who were exceptionally talented in math — landing in the top 1 percent of mathematical reasoning scores on SAT tests.

Participants with previous strokes had lower baseline cognitive scores on all four tests and 78 percent died during follow - ups.

The results showed that people with MS scored 70 percent higher on the tests on cooler days.

A study from the University of Utah and the University of Kansas found that backpackers scored 50 percent better on a creativity test after spending four days in natural settings, disconnected from electronic devices.

In a study involving dietary ketosis via a low carbohydrate diet (less than 10 percent of total calories), compared to subjects on a 50 percent carbohydrate diet, the low - carbohydrate subjects demonstrated better performance on memory tests, with higher scores being correlated to higher serum KB levels.14 A study using cultured mouse hippocampal cells showed that addition of the KB β - hydroxybutyrate (β - OHB) to cells exposed to Aβ resulted in no decrease in the numbers of dendrites or total neurons — two of the noted pathological changes in AD.

'' a study of health - and - fitness professionals published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found that trainers who had five years of experience but no college degree scored an average of 44 percent on a test of basic fitness knowledge.

«trainers who had five years of experience but no college degree scored an average of 44 percent on a test of basic fitness knowledge.»

On the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, 46 percent of the city's students scored «below basic» in mathematics, and 38 percent were below that low threshold in reading (compared with 33 and 28 percent for the nation, respectively).

Using student - level data from two states, Harvard Professor Martin West and I found that 40 to 60 percent of schools serving mostly low - income or underrepresented minority students would fall into the bottom 15 percent of schools statewide based on their average test scores, but only 15 to 25 percent of these same schools would be classified as low performing based on their test - score growth.

A teacher in New York State is considered to be ineffective based on her students» test score growth if her value - added score is more than 1.5 standard deviations below average (i.e., in the bottom seven percent of teachers).

The 14 - member panel, which included Skandera, recommended a new teacher - evaluation system that weighted 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation on student test scores.

At Summit Prep, 82 percent of students scored proficient or above on that test.

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

Because most students enter charter schools before the 3rd grade when state - mandated testing begins, only 36 percent of applicants in our study have prior test scores on record and this group is not representative of all applicants.

Unfortunately, the United States educates only a little more than 6 percent of its students to an advanced level in math according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a small percentage when compared to the proportion in many other countries that score at a comparable level on the international PISA test.

The percentage of 10th - graders in four SIG schools scoring proficient or above on state tests in 2011 was 12.5 percent, compared to 0 percent in 2010.

Calling it the Bieber Challenge ~ I hung a poster of the celebrity on my white board an told my students that everytime they scored a 90 percent or higher class average on a test ~ I would tear a piece of the poster down.

Consistent with other research on school effects, we find that the school a student attends can explain a substantial share of the overall variation in test scores: that single factor explains 34 percent of the variation in math scores and 24 percent of the variation for reading.

The state wants 80 percent of all students and student subgroups to score at a level demonstrating that they are on track for postsecondary readiness by 2024 - 25, based on state tests; also wants all students and student subgroups to graduate at a 90 percent clip by the same year.

This strategy should raise their standardized test scores, since researchers estimate that «85 percent of achievement test scores are based on the vocabulary of the standards.»