Differential effects of stimulant medication on
reading performance of boys with hyperactivity with and without conduct disorder
The reading performance of Virginia eighth graders was flat compared with achievement in 2009 and since 2003.
School mobility improved
the reading performance of white and more advantaged students, but had no effect on
the reading performance of minority students.
For example, the National Assessment of Education Progress» (NAEP) reading report card shows very little change in
the reading performance of fourth graders since 1992, and a decrease in performance by eighth graders (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2006).
To compare achievement in states with each other and with other countries, we use newly available data for student mathematics and reading performance in U.S. states from the 2011 TIMSS and 2012 PISA, as well as several years of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).4 In particular, we use information on mathematics and
reading performance of 15 - year - olds from the PISA data, information on mathematics performance in 8th grade from the TIMSS data, and information on mathematics and
reading performance of students in 4th and 8th grade from the NAEP data.
The reading performance of students at the five schools was, on average, 18 percent of a standard deviation below what could have been expected had the schools been under district management, a difference that is statistically significant in three of the six years.
The estimated average annual impact on
reading performance of for - profit management relative to district management is a positive 10 percent of a standard deviation, approximately 36 percent of a year's worth of reading.
This was the second time Australian students participated in PIRLS and the results indicated that the average
reading performance of Year 4 students had improved significantly since students were last tested in 2011.
In this paper, we use an extensive student - level data set to evaluate the impact of charter schools in North Carolina on the math and
reading performance of students in grades 4 through 8.
Literacy rotation offered indirect benefits as well, since it created an efficient forum for teachers to learn about
the reading performances of a variety of students and a mechanism for communicating with each other about struggling students.
It spat out sequential
read performance of 1,826 MB / s, and sequential write performance of 1,289 MB / s.
Not exact matches
When I look at the truly horrendous numbers from United Parcel today, when I
read once again about how McDonald's knows it has problems and will address them with alacrity, I can't help but wonder: when will someone finally be held accountable for this kind
of subpar
performance?»
In 2009, for example, the German government amended its rules so that inspections
of emissions
performance would be based solely on
readings from a car's own «onboard diagnostic» system, effectively ceding total control to the automakers.
The company's AI product, Quill, can essentially turn numbers into stories: The box score from a baseball game becomes a written report
of that game, for example, detailing player
performance as if you were
reading a sportswriter's coverage in the newspaper.
He mentioned he had just
read one
of my articles (one
of the first ones I had written for this column) and was fascinated by the correlations I made between the culture
of the U.S. special - operations community and building high -
performance teams in the business world.
Maybe you've
read a couple
of posts or articles before noting that naps actually boost employee
performance and that it would behoove rational employers to let their tired employees snooze.
A large and growing body
of research indicates that the right mix
of praise (
read: more praise, less criticism) has a demonstrable positive effect on the
performance of the individual and the team.
Lemmy not only introduced Twisted Sister to the crowd
of 80,000 metalheads in their
performance at the hugely important 1982
Reading Rock Festival, he also joined them onstage in a widely seen national TV
performance on the popular music program «The Tube».
Jonathan Long is the founder
of Market Domination Media ®, a
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I gathered data for both groups regarding their careers / employment, the percentage born to wealth, poverty or the middle - class, spending habits, academic
performance, education, perceptions
of wealth / poverty, various health data, inherited money data, gambling habits, home ownership, car ownership,
reading habits, relationship management, savings habits, self - improvement habits, time management habits, beliefs, vacation habits, volunteering habits, networking habits, voting habits and work - related data.
Buffett spends hours each day
reading reports and researching companies, industries, the economy and the
performance of the more than 80 companies Berkshire owns outright.
For daily musings on how to improve your health and
performance follow me on Twitter and Facebook, where I share the best
of what I've written and
read along with general advice and tips.
Further
Reading: The Danger
of One Year
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of the Perfect Portfolio The Robo - Advisor Challenge
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performance of REIT companies in the S&P / TSX Composite,
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The U.S. stock market is in a 9 year bull market which makes many investors skeptical
of the continued likelihood
of market out
performance.
Anyone
reading the book will understand how they can improve the
performance of every team they work with, any company they run, or any company they want to start.
Using survivorship bias - free
performance, sales channel and holding data for active U.S. domestic equity funds with at least five years
of history and substantial holdings / assets during 1980 through 2014, they find that: Keep
Reading
Using annual
performance data from his 2017 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders for 1965 through 2017 (53 years) and the investing approach / outlooks described in his letters
of 1977 through 2017, we find that: Keep
Reading
Using monthly stock returns and balance sheet data for a broad sample
of U.S. stocks and quarterly Berkshire Hathaway SEC Form 13F holdings during 1976 to 2011, along with open - end active mutual fund
performance data during 1980 through 2009, they find that: Keep
Reading
Based on prior research / experience and
performances of the top ten (long) holdings from quarterly Form 13F filings for selected fund managers during January 2000 through December 2014, he concludes that: Keep
Reading
As a spreadsheet lover, I keep multiple spreadsheets tracking various metrics and other
performance aspects
of... [
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The S&P Indonesia Bond Index tracks the
performance of local currency denominated government and corporate bonds from Indonesia and with a
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Past
performance is no guarantee
of future returns - please
read individual scheme related documents carefully before investing.
Investor interested in investing in any
of the programs on this website are urged to carefully
read these disclosure documents, including, but not limited to the
performance information, before investing in any such programs.
All
of these books are great
reads and can add tremendously to your trading knowledge and
performance.
An extension
of the spoken introductions, perhaps, the song - cycle even includes a spoken word
performance, a
reading of Robert Service's grimly comic poem, «The Cremation
of Sam McGee.»
Richard Beck has described the book as a sort
of «hermeneutical
performance art» and explains that «by refusing to pick and choose, Evans reveals to anyone
reading her book just how much picking and choosing is actually going on.
Similarly, the virtuosic exegetical
performances offered by Hays in this book will, I think, inform and illuminate their subsequent
readings of the Gospels and provide fresh inspiration to
read and reread the Old Testament.
The persuasive way to
read Pascal's original is as a
performance argument and a prayer, but, taken as a flat set
of logical possibilities, it has an answer in the extremely unlikely possibility that God rewards disbelief or that God punishes belief.
Performance studies uses some of the raw materials of incarnational theology to imagine human speaking; preaching approaches the disciplinary terrain of performance theory by emphasizing relationships between orality and writing, between reading and speaking, and the evocative power of ritual speech a
Performance studies uses some
of the raw materials
of incarnational theology to imagine human speaking; preaching approaches the disciplinary terrain
of performance theory by emphasizing relationships between orality and writing, between reading and speaking, and the evocative power of ritual speech a
performance theory by emphasizing relationships between orality and writing, between
reading and speaking, and the evocative power
of ritual speech and gesture.
The suffering
of a beginner learning to play the piano is not the same as the suffering
of the accomplished artist playing a recital, or
reading critical reviews after a
performance.
Not the other as a psychic life that is to be re-experienced and reconstituted, but the other as a vision or a truth conveyed by the speech
performance of an author in terms
of a potentiality structured in the text that can only be actualized through the process
of reading.
Amos Wilder adds a piece to our understanding
of what these
performances might have been like: When we picture to ourselves the early Christian narrators we should make full allowance for animated and expressive narration... oral speech also was less inhibited than today... when we think
of the early church meetings and testimonies and narrations we are probably well guided if we think
of the way in which Vachael Lindsay
read or
of the appropriate
readings of James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones (56).
First, we have a letter and we know from our knowledge
of performance history that such letters were written to be
read aloud.
The event will include a welcome address by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, a specially commissioned poem
read by Scotland's Makar, Jackie Kay, and live
performances showcasing a cross-section
of Scotland's rich musical talent.
On an old disc
of line
readings for a
performance he once auditioned for, however, he discovers that one session became intimate while the camera rolled.
- Comment Following on from just - drinks» analysis
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performance over the last five years, just - drinks» beer commentat...
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Constellation Brands sees growth continue into H1 2018 - results A good
performance in the second quarter has helped drive Constellation Brands» sales to new heights in its fiscal first - half
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The patent pending process developed with the University
of Lincoln enables machine
reading close to the
performance of the human eye.