Sentences with phrase «performance on a particular test»

Longer - term outcomes are especially desirable for such a line of inquiry, as there is greater agreement on the value of enrolling in college or finding success in the labor market than in performance on a particular test.

Not exact matches

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory tests.

Their program found a weak but positive correlation between how well any particular bird did on one test and its performance on the other five tests.

Interestingly, performance on the Eyes Test in males was not associated with genes in this particular region of chromosome 3.

And there is a responsibility on me as a teacher to know those tests and to know the concepts that will be on them and then to design the types of products and performances, the types of projects that will require students to use those particular skills.

In addition to examining the effect of teacher gender on students» test - score performance, I examined teacher perceptions of a student's performance and student perceptions of the subject taught by a particular teacher.

To take an example, imagine that a particular sub-group of students do more poorly than expected (based on their performance on other questions testing the same math skill) on a math item that uses the word «foyer,» while other groups of students do just as well as expected.

It should not be particularly surprising that student performance improved more dramatically on a test that was aligned with a particular state's curriculum (the TAAS) than on a more generic test of subject matter (the NAEP).

Moreover, there may be other factors, unrelated to class size, that lead to swings in classroom performance, such as a dog barking in the parking lot on the day of the test or special classroom «chemistry» reflecting a good match between a particular classroom of students and a particular teacher.

When deciding whether to admit a student, colleges more heavily weigh grades over standardized tests like the ACT and SAT, because they show a student's performance over a period of time rather than on a particular day.

This suggests an alternative criterion by which to judge changes in student performance - namely, that achievement gains on test items that measure particular skills or understandings may be meaningful even if the student's overall test score does not fully generalize to other exams.

They should allow parents and others interested in a particular school or district to see trend lines in student performance on these standardized tests,» Freedberg said.

Each test provides specific information about a student's performance on particular standards and on the concepts and skills associated with each standard.

Instead, districts might find ways to reward a particular school or group of teachers that meets a goal, such as improved attendance, discipline or performance on standardized tests.

Each state's success or failure under NCLB hinges on the particular cut score that a state's officials have selected, often arbitrarily, to determine whether a student's performance on a state accountability test classifies that student as proficient.

Value - added models generally use statistical methods to isolate the impact of a factor of interest (like being taught by a particular teacher) on an outcome (like a test score) by mathematically removing the effects of other factors (like student family income or prior performance levels).

Evaluating the performance of a group of students (e.g., classroom, grade level) on a test question may provide evidence of the effectiveness of instruction of specific knowledge or of a particular skill.

The first graph below, in which each data point relates the average socioeconomic index score for a decile of a particular OECD country's students to that decile's average performance on PISA's math test, depicts this relationship.

Realistically we'd knock up to 10mpg off those figures, and the 640i in particular seemed to like a drink when using the performance whereas the 630d was a little more parsimonious while on test.

This is the only test that we run on all system, from laptops to desktops to hard drives, so it provides a good relative sense of performance even if the benchmark doesn't directly relate to a particular real - world use.

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