Sentences with phrase «percentile points during»

On average, students» performance improved by roughly 2 to 3 percentile points during their first year with a teacher of the same race.

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She didn't ask for the background before giving me this amazing advice: a) Child has two tall, slender parents, both of whom kept to the lower percentiles during childhood, and each of which, at one point, was underweight.

Due to the attrition and replacement of students during the course of middle school, however, KIPP's eighth - grade students had pre-KIPP test scores that were about 6 to 7 percentile points higher than the test scores of students in district schools.

Attending a classroom that increased test scores by one standard deviation (about 8.8 percentile points) during the initial year of the experiment was reported to increase college attendance, the quality of the college attended (as indicated by the mean adult earnings of its graduates), and earnings.

Harvard researcher Brian Jacob (2002), for example, conducted an in - depth analysis of test scores in Chicago Public Schools during a period (1993 — 2000) when student achievement increased by.30 standard deviations (12 percentile points) in mathematics and.20 standard deviations (8 percentile points) in reading.

This cutoff point corresponds to 80th percentile scores for community samples and has a 95 % sensitivity for diagnosing major depressive disorder (MDD) among low - income women, although the specificity and positive predictive value for MDD are low (70 % and 0.28, respectively).29, 30 The cutoff point of 16 has been used by many investigators assessing depressive symptoms in a variety of cohorts, including pregnant women.28 — 33 When studying depressive symptoms during pregnancy, some investigators chose to use a higher CES - D cutoff point (eg, the 90th percentile) to account for the possibility that symptoms of normal pregnancy may overlap with symptoms of depression.9, 18 There is no evidence that this approach is more accurate or preferable to using the cutoff point of 16, and the use of higher cutoff points increases specificity but decreases sensitivity for MDD.28 We used a consistent cutoff point of 16 to define depressive symptoms before and after parturition.