Sentences with phrase «scored at the achievement»

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Not long ago, Google spent more than $ 400 million to buy industry - leading startup DeepMind, and scored a major tech and marketing coup when the computer AlphaGo defeated grandmaster Lee Sedol at the possibility - lush game of Go — an achievement hundreds of times more complex than when Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess.

The former global operations CIO at Barclays landed on our 40 Under 40 list last year for his impressive background, quick achievements as CIO of Nike, and his advocacy and influence in the gay community (Watson is out, and was the first non-U.S. citizen to score a seat on the board of GLAAD).

Article does not mention that at charlton he scored a hat trick against reading, which is quite some achievement.

1:54 Mauricio Pochettino described a «fantastic game» as we toppled Southampton 5 - 2 at Wembley on Boxing Day and described Harry Kane's scoring feats for 2017 as a «massive achievement».

What's most important is that we don't dwell on Higuain's achievements while at Napoli, it will not be a colossal failure if he doesn't score 36 goals in Serie A this year.

Jody Morris's side mirrored their achievement of last season at Norwich City, scoring four goals at the Colney Training Centre in their second away game of the campaign.

We have found that eliminating valedictorian status and class rankings has reduced stress at certain schools — especially those where achievement in the form of grades and test scores and college admission rates is valued above all other traits.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

In a secondary analysis, the NSLY found that the achievement scores of children breastfed for at least 29 weeks were 1.5 points higher than those of children never breastfed (P =.01), but the authors considered their data about breastfeeding duration «less reliable» than data about whether a child was ever breastfed.

Significant relations between breastfeeding and Woodcock Reading Achievement scores at 11 years were also reduced to nonsignificant levels after the inclusion of maternal IQ and the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment.

In all, about 62 % of the individual differences in academic achievement — at least when it came to GCSE scores — could be attributed to genetic factors, a number similar to previous studies» findings, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A study matching newborn glucose concentration screening results with fourth - grade achievement test scores suggests that early transient newborn hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) was associated with lower test scores at age 10, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

In July 2012, physicists at CERN scored the field's crowning achievement by discovering the Higgs boson, the particle key to explaining how other fundamental particles get their mass and the last missing piece in a 40 - year - old theory called the standard model.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

The greatest achievement of the film's psychedelic roller coaster is the potent and passionate music of Junkie XL, whose previous scores on films like «300: Rise of an Empire» and «Divergent» could have never hinted at the masterpiece composition he would create for George Miller.

Actor Jeff Daniels is celebrating a new sporting achievement after scoring a hole - in - one during a round of golf at the Polo Fields Golf Country Club...

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Since tests can include cultural bias and handicap those with different languages and cultures, we need to look at assessment as a holistic approach that includes performance tasks, portfolios, achievement scores, creativity tests, and other measures.

The study by the Educational Policy Institute, released Aug. 11, examined the scores on the Stanford Achievement Test 9 or 10 given to 1,800 5th graders at 24 KIPP schools in the fall of 2003, and again in either...

The provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.

For admission, they must score at an 8th - grade level on standardized reading and math tests (the Richmond Tech PLC raised that to 9th grade because it had so many applicants), pass an interview, and sign an achievement contract that also commits them to attend a daily meeting called Morning Motivation.

Participants scored at least 10 points higher in achievement tests than students who did not participate.

Perhaps it's because white students score higher on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.

«Compared with their self - protective peers, selfless teachers saw significantly lower student achievement scores on standardized assessments at the end of the year,» the two reported.

The two achievement measures, SAT scores and dropout rates, have the benefit of reflecting student achievement at both ends of the ability distribution.

Researcher: Nation's Future Depends on Raising White, Nonwhite Test Scores Observer & Eccentric, August 21, 2011» «If we can't make it happen, we may have already peaked as a nation,» said [Senior Lecturer] Ronald Ferguson, faculty co-chair and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard.»

They suggested that, rather than measuring academic achievement based on proficiency rates alone, states should either look at scale scores or some sort of an index providing partial credit for getting students to a basic level (and additional credit for getting students to an advanced one).

In 1999, Michigan increased the reward for good academic performance by offering the Michigan Merit Award, a one - year $ 2,500 scholarship for any student who scores at Level I or Level 2 on the Michigan Educational Achievement Program (MEAP) tests in reading, mathematics, science, and writing.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

Students who attend middle schools at risk of dropping out of high school As compared to students in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievement tests.

Classroom «Crisis»: Many Teachers Have Little or No Experience MSNBC, September 26, 2011 «While education experts caution that lack of experience isn't necessarily an indication of a teacher's ability, student achievement scores do show that on average a first - year teacher is not as effective as a third - year teacher, said Susan Moore Johnson, an expert on teacher recruitment and retention at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

The high scores of students in a wealthy suburban New Jersey school will reflect the contributions of well - educated parents, a communal emphasis on academic achievement, a stable learning environment at home, and enriching extracurricular opportunities.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

Student achievement at schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as measured by scores on standardized tests is considerably lower than that of public schools, according to a report by the federal General Accounting Office.

This view would assign less importance to concerns about declining test scores at the elementary - school level, since the increasing skill of the workforce provides evidence that overall student achievement is not falling.

The issue of the relative quality of private and public schools was at the core of our research, and we relied on both data on school resources and day - to - day operations and on student achievement scores.

One way to estimate the possible size of peer effects at KIPP is to combine our findings with other research on how peers» prior scores affect student achievement.

Even if the largest estimates of peer effects are correct, however, the improvement in peers» prior test scores would appear to benefit KIPP students» achievement only by about 0.07 to 0.09 standard deviations after four years at KIPP.

The ideal assessment will be more nuanced, gathering student data over time but also looking at the small, yet significant improvements in achievement, such as higher grades or increased participation in class, which might not be immediately reflected in students» test scores.

In reading, the achievement gap has improved slightly more than in math (0.3 standard deviations), but after a half century, the average black student scores at just the 22nd percentile of the white distribution.

Since a teacher had to score at least 64 points to avoid the «ineffective» rating, according to the Regents» plan, it was conceivable, as the judge noted, that «the regulation allows for an «ineffective» rating based solely on poor student achievement results (the first 40 % category) without regard to the 60 % evaluation category.»

Among students assigned to different teachers with the same Overall Classroom Practices score, math achievement will grow more for students whose teacher is better than his peers at classroom management (i.e., has a higher score on our Classroom Management vs. Instructional Practices measure).

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

A study released earlier this month by Mathematica finds that students attending charter high schools in Florida scored lower on achievement tests than students in traditional public schools, but years later, the charter students were more likely to have attended at least two years of college and also had higher earnings.

And that's without resolving the policy paradox of whether achievement scores and graduation rates can realistically be raised at the same time, along with the level of student engagement, or whether those worthy goals tend to cancel one another.

The school board decided to require the two - hour reading block at 59 elementary and 12 middle schools where students average scores of 25 or less on the Stanford Achievement Test.

Their higher cut scores for proficiency will automatically widen achievement gaps, at least at first.