Sentences with phrase «predict lower test scores»

Chronic absenteeism in kindergarten, and even pre-K, can predict lower test scores, repeated patterns of poor attendance and retention in later grades, especially if the problem persists for more than a year.

Chronic absenteeism in kindergarten, and even pre-K, can predict lower test scores, repeated patterns of poor attendance and retention in later grades, especially if the absences persist for more than a year.

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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.

Drawing from math test scores from PISA 2009 in which the United States performed lower than the OECD average, the report argues that while demand for STEM labor is predicted to increase over the next few decades, a shortage of STEM labor in the United States, along with inadequate performance in science, math, and reading compared to other countries, endangers U.S. future competitiveness and innovation.

Some experts predict that the first year of a brand - new test may mean much lower scores.

Newton predicted the top group would score 90 percent on the test, the middle group 80 percent and the lower group 70 percent.

For example, Jyoti, Frongillo, and Jones (2005) found that food insufficiency in kindergarten girls predicted lagging social skills and lower test scores.

A fundamental shift in how a disability is identified, making diagnostic decisions only after intervention rather than simply because a student's achievement test score is lower than the score on an intelligence test would predict

The drawback of objective measures, such as test scores, is that they may be biased against students who are not good test takers, as well as against low - income and / or minority students, who tend to have lower scores that do not reflect actual knowledge or predict future success (Steele 1997; Rothstein 2004; Hoffman and Lowitzki 2005; Madaus and Clarke 2001).

In her 2013 book, Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch — an education historian and former federal education official who originally supported but later became a critic of reforms like No Child Left Behind — cites surprising evidence that a nation's higher position on an international ranking of test scores actually predicted lower per capita GDP decades later, compared with countries whose test scores ranked worse.