Sentences with phrase «scale scored by»

In fact, the largest positive change for a state in any tested subject area and grade level was a +10 change in scale score by California in eighth grade reading.

Average Point Difference is a measure that compares a school's SBAC scale scores by grade to the state standard for «met.»

Figure 9.9 Motor milestones and communication and symbolic behaviour scale scores by main carers» knowledge of early child development

Not exact matches

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

During the application process, I find out that my credit score is 600, which is at the bottom of the lender's qualification scale (pretty realistic for 2014, by the way).

Many people believe that a credit check will affect your credit score by less than 5 points on a scale of 850 points.

Meet Omada Health: With 87M consumers at risk of diabetes, 75,000 patients treated, 3 years of outcomes data, NetPromoter scores in the 90's, 70 + clients, and looming reimbursement by Medicare for its diabetes prevention online social network, Omada has «cracked the code» on integrating consumer technology, medical coaching and big data at scale.

We feel that it is our duty to tell you that Matthew had been blacklisted by the Greater Jerusalem Better Business Bureau; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus definitely have radical leanings, and they both registered a high score on the manic - depressive scale.

North Korea's total score was 94 (on a 100 - point scale), pushed above Afghanistan's 93 by a 0.6 difference in their violence rating.

The only question is how long before he begins to get wooed by major conference teams again if he succeeds at ASU; with a Jimmy Sexton client, a» 3» is about as good as you are going to score on the Long Term scale.

Obviously mid-majors are going to get graded on a slightly different scale — Malzahn going to a major conference team would have probably scored more like a 21 - 23 — but this truly was a knockout hire by Arkansas State.

But if the match had been scored by the scale in use when L.A. captured the first contest between these teams, the result would have been 96 - 94 in favor of New York!

More recently, researchers using variations on Anda and Felitti's ACE scale have found that growing up in a chronically stressful home, as indicated by an elevated ACE score, has a direct negative effect on the development of children's executive functions and, by extension, on their ability to learn effectively in school.

She emphasized, however, that King - Devick was only meant for use as an initial screen to identify athletes who should not be allowed to return to the game or practice and who should be referred for further, more comprehensive evaluation by a trained professional (e.g. assessment of balance, neurocognitive function, and scores on the Post-Concussion Symptom Scale).

Patients with suspected concussive injury are categorized as having mild traumatic brain injury, or mTBI if, when they are first seen by an emergency medicine provider, they receive a score of 14 - 15 on the 15 - point Glasgow Coma Scale, which is used to determine level of consciousness based on responses to various stimuli:

In terms of early infant behaviour, there is some suggestion that in the first few weeks of life breastfed babies may be characterized by improved alertness28, 29 and other aspects of neurobehavioural functioning.30 For example, Hart et al. 30 found that one - week - old breastfed infants obtained significantly higher scores on the orientation and motor scales on the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale.

Increased awareness of the nutritional and medical benefits of breastfeeding, including reduced incidence of infection and allergic reaction, 1 — 9 has led to its endorsement by medical and professional groups10 — 12 and to substantial increases in the number of women choosing to breastfeed.13, 14 A study of 300 British children showed that children who consumed breast milk in the early weeks of life also had significantly higher IQ scores at 7.5 to 8 years on an abbreviated version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) than those who were not breastfed.15 The sample was made up of preterm infants fed breast milk or formula by tube.

One final caveat: The scores of all the countries considered are between 65 and 85 on a scale designed to go from 0 to 100 (actual range: 35 - 87) and a dataset mostly restricted to countries considered «free» or «mostly free» by Freedom House.

The team identified procrastinators by asking student volunteers to fill in a questionnaire that assigns people a procrastination score, on a scale of 1 to 60.

English - speaking mothers living in the City of St. Louis who scored above 10 on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) were approached to join the study by members of the research team.

«After developing our scale, data from follow - up testing confirmed that students» engagement scores were positively correlated with indicators of performance, such as good grades and independent learning outside of school motivated by interest.

The test scores in each school were compared with the teachers» scores on a scale developed by Goddard that measured their sense of collective efficacy.

To gauge the level of pain inflicted by each species, the researchers offered their own forearms, and scored each bite according to a five - point scale, ranging from «could not pinch skin», to «sharper unpleasant pain and capable of breaking skin if persistent».

At the end of their stays, their scores on test called the brief psychiatric rating scale had improved by an average of nearly 20 per cent.

Next, the association between brain network organization and individual variation in intelligence was examined by correlating the full - scale IQ scores with the λ and γ values of the individual brain networks within the clear small - world range of 0.3 ≤ T ≤ 0.5.

An overall «distress» score is also calculated for each symptom on a scale from 0 — 16, by multiplying the frequency by severity scores [2, 27, 28].

PD - L1 signal was visualized by Cy5, compartmentalized and expressed as the average signal intensity within the assayed component (AQUA score), with scores on a scale of 0 - 255.

The scoring system for experiments two and three were developed by a replacement pathologist who preferred a scale of 0 to 3 which corresponded to a judgment of mild, moderate or severe (figure 4A).

Finally, there are a number of rating scales that have been used by physicians to score signs of HD, and these were measured as well, allowing the TRACK - HD scientists to compare their information to older trials.

Antioxidants are measured by the ORAC scale and while strawberries score a respectable 4302, pomegranates score a massive 10,500.

By day 60, the ashwagandha group experienced a significant reduction in all scores on the stress - assessment scales compared to the placebo group.

Of course, by NuVal's own system, a score of 16 or 20 is still on the low end of the nutrition scale, which is only to be expected with Doritos and ice cream sandwiches.

They used two measurements to gauge a drug's effectiveness and tolerability: the percentage of patients who showed at least a 50 % improvement in their symptoms as measured by one of two scales, or who scored «much improved or very much improved» after eight weeks of treatment (or from 6 to 12 weeks if eight - week data wasn't available) and the percentage of patients who dropped out of the study before eight weeks for any reason.

Percentages of adults with screen - positive depression (Patient Health Questionnaire - 2 score of ≥ 3) and adjusted odds ratios (AORs) of the effects of sociodemographic characteristics on odds of screen - positive depression; percentages with treatment for screen - positive depression and AORs; percentages with any treatment of depression and AORs stratified by presence of serious psychological distress (Kessler 6 scale score of ≥ 13); and percentages with depression treatment by health care professional group (psychiatrists, other health care professionals, and general medical providers); and type of depression treatment (antidepressants, psychotherapy, and both) all stratified by distress level.

We then went one further, and charted the top five states for travelling, by taking the states in which travelling had the highest average score on the 0 - 10 scale.

The results show that eHarmony couples scored significantly higher in regard to all four components of relationship quality measured by the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS): consensus, satisfaction, affectional expression and cohesion.

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The Metascore for iPhone and iPad games is an unweighted average of individual scores given by professional game publications on a scale of 0 (bad) to 100 (good).

The feeling is reinforced by the scaling - score multiplier pick - ups and the secondary top - down camera that shifts the default isometric view overhead.

Returning screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Dawn Treader, Prince Caspian) continue to score big with the Captain America character, and this time they outdo themselves by making a grand - scale action film with an undertaking that comes closest to rivaling the scope and intricacies of The Avengers as an event (Supporting player Anthony Mackie describes this entry adeptly as Avengers 1.5).

Tarantino's devotion to the cause never wavers though, and while some may quibble about its small scale, or about the point of it all by the time the credits roll, the experience of it, the cinematography, the acting, the dialogue, the score, so effortlessly washes over that it often feels impossible to resist its charms.

They scale the gain in black students» scores by the standard deviation of test scores computed for a select sample of students, and observe that the gain in their scores due to attending private school is «roughly one - third of the test - score gap between blacks and whites nationwide.»

Nations such as Germany raised boys» enjoyment of reading and increased their reading scores by about 10 points on the PISA scale.

In 2005 — 06, depending on the grade, a student's math scale score had to rise by an average of 32 points to go from the top of the Performance Level 1 range («failing» or not meeting learning standards) to the bottom of the Performance Level 3 range («proficient» or meeting learning standards).

The greatest improvements should be seen among schools that had already received one F grade from the state, since their students would become eligible for vouchers if they received a second F. To test this hypothesis, average FCAT scale - score improvements for schools were broken out by the grade they received the year before.

And depending upon which scale one uses, vouchers appear to reduce the black - white test score gap by either one - quarter or one - third.

States can accomplish this by measuring achievement via average scale scores or a performance index, and by giving substantial weight to a measure of academic growth for all students from one year to the next.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

Achievement: Student groups currently scoring below benchmark (scale scores below 750 on current state tests) will be expected to close the gap to 750 by 25 percent within 5 years.