Sentences with phrase «scores than in reading»

This explanation would seem, however, to imply that we would see less persistence in math scores than in reading scores, because the skills required to master a series of mathematical skills are believed to change more rapidly over time than the skills required for reading.

Not exact matches

ECM: In the past few years, a person's credit worthiness has also been investigated via social media sites and other avenues (read more on that here via NPR), rather than just based on a credit score alone from the top three bureaus.

In your article around Baltimore's technology gap («Computer - based tests a challenge for low - income students, some Baltimore teachers say,» April 22), we read that students who took the PARCC scored lower when they took the test on a computer than when they used paper and pencil.

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

I have just read the most amazing stat that Arsenal have created more chances than any other team in the Premiership at a staggering 230, which is more than even Man City at 228 but just look at the difference in goals scored!

A 3 - 0 win over Reading stopped the rot, though they were then beaten 3 - 1 by Manchester United at Old Trafford, still they followed that up with a 1 - 0 away win at Southampton, and then even more impressively with a surprise 1 - 0 win at home to Manchester City, with none other than Adam Johnson scoring the winner against the side he left in the summer.

After reading some stats, in 2010, Crouch was the 3rd highest striker out of the top 100 strikers in the BPL to score more goals from headers than foot.

We shouldn't read any more significance in to that result than Sanogo scoring 4 against Benefica in the same competition.

was reading online somewhere today that barca were willing to let pedro go for about # 15 million this could be a bargain for a quality player and if corzola (who cost # 18miillion) decides he wants to go next year back to spain we have his ready made replacement in pedro he is hybrid of sanchez and corzola (great two footed player) skilled in the barca hard working style and energetic and at 27 he would be at his peak and can score goals from wide areas we would have added edge to our attacking play if we cant get reus he would be a great second chioce would be a better investment than aarons me thinks.

Mourinho said: «Paul is one of the best players in the world and will be a key part of the United team I want to build here for the future... He is quick, strong, scores goals and reads the game better than many players much older than he is.»

However, the Reds currently have four international strikers fully fit for the first time this season and the upturn in goalscoring form makes for good reading, as no Premier League side have scored more goals than the Reds since the turn of the year.

The Western Australian study, the results of which were published in the Jan 2011 issue of Pediatrics, which «studied more than 2900 children born between 1989 and 1991 from before birth to the age of 10» and «found that boys who were breastfed for the first six months of life received significantly higher scores in math, reading and spelling compared to formula - fed children with the same socioeconomic background.»

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However, teacher - rated reading, writing and subjects other than mathematics all scored lower in the exclusively breastfed group (all p ≤ 0.033).

Our students typically see up to two to three times more growth in their reading scores than their peers.

When Mr. King first walked onto the stage in the Eastport - South Manor High School auditorium, he was greeted with a large portion of the 1,000 - person crowd, mostly teachers, quietly holding up green and white signs that read, «We are all more than a score.»

Children who performed poorly in agility, speed and manual dexterity tests and had poor overall motor performance in the first grade had lower reading and arithmetic test scores in grades 1 - 3 than children with better performance in motor tests.

Especially children in the lowest motor performance third had poorer reading and arithmetic test scores than children in the other thirds.

By the fall of their kindergarten year, children who participated in Head Start and the REDI - P group scored higher than the children in the control group on several measures, showing greater increases in their vocabulary, literacy skills, reading fluency and academic performance upon entering kindergarten.

In a new longitudinal study, first - generation immigrant children who took part in a community - based intervention had higher scores on math and reading tests than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the prograIn a new longitudinal study, first - generation immigrant children who took part in a community - based intervention had higher scores on math and reading tests than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the prograin a community - based intervention had higher scores on math and reading tests than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the prograin the program.

First graders who learned to write in cursive scored higher on reading and spelling than peers who wrote in print.

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Third, at the end of the study, students who started the study in the MPCP had higher reading scores than comparable MPS students.

However, Houston's scores are significantly higher than those of Los Angeles in both reading and math, and the city has experienced greater gains in recent years.

Poland's males actually enjoyed reading less in 2012 than in 2000, but their scores went up more than 14 points.

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.

In fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schoolIn fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schoolin each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schools.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

For example, Florida State University's 2017 study of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program found that participants were four percentage points less likely to be white, one percentage point more likely to qualify for free lunch, and had prior math and reading scores that were two to four percentile points lower than eligible students that did not participate in the choice program.

Results from the 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), released on 5 December, show Australia's average score was lower than those of 13 other countries, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Northern Ireland and England, which all tested in English, as well as other top - performing countries the Russian Federation, Finland and Poland.

«While 62 per cent of our students performed better in collaborative problem solving than was expected based on their reading, Maths and Science scores, a focus on one skill shouldn't come at the expense of the others,» he said.

In 2011, the average SAT combined score for YES Prep African American students in reading, writing, and mathematics was 1556, far above the national average of 1273 for African Americans, and significantly higher than the 1500 national average for all studentIn 2011, the average SAT combined score for YES Prep African American students in reading, writing, and mathematics was 1556, far above the national average of 1273 for African Americans, and significantly higher than the 1500 national average for all studentin reading, writing, and mathematics was 1556, far above the national average of 1273 for African Americans, and significantly higher than the 1500 national average for all students.

Martin Carnoy states that «the treated students in Cohort 1 were concentrated in middle schools and the effect on their reading score was significantly higher than for treated students in Cohort 2.»

The results indicate that the effect of a later start time in both math and reading is more than twice as large for students in the bottom third of the test - score distribution than for students in the top third.

Retained students performed better than low - scoring students who were promoted by 0.13 standard deviations (4.10 percentiles) on the FCAT and 0.11 standard deviations (3.45 percentiles) on the Stanford - 9 in reading.

Between 2004 and 2014, the percentage of students scoring at or above grade level in reading, writing, and math increased from 33 to 48, far faster than the state average.

The OECD says students in Australia — along with those in New Zealand, Japan, Korea and the United States — performed much better in this assessment than would be expected, based on their scores in the PISA 2015 science, reading and mathematics tests.

The improvement in the median reading score for those students entering 3rd grade is smaller than the NAEP increase for 4th graders over the same time period.

«We had just received the results of last year's CTBS test,» says McCrory, «and our test scores in reading were even higher than the previous year's.

That is especially remarkable given that students in the South Bronx have a history of scoring lower on reading and writing tests than any other students in the country.

The average NAEP reading score for Hispanic students in Florida (on a test conducted in English mind you) is now higher than the overall average scores (for students from all racial and ethnic groups) of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

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.

The study by ctb / McGraw - Hill found that, in 1987, students in grades 1 to 8 who took its Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills scored an average of 6.63 percentile points higher in reading, 10.83 points higher in language, and 14 points higher in mathematics than a 1981 comparison group.

The 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Nation's Report Card, showed that nine - year - olds made «more progress in reading over the past five years than in the previous 28 years combined... and posted the best scores in math in the history of the report.»

The U.S. score in reading is tied for 23rd place, but its true ranking is more complicated than that: When statistical significance is taken into account, 14 systems scored higher than the U.S., 13 scored about the same, and a considerable 42 scored lower.

Consider the article in Education Week, which reported, «Movement in elementary - school reading scores was evenly split — better than the national average in half the states, worse in the other half.»

The correlation between ratings by principals and the average test scores of a teacher's students is significantly higher than the correlation between ratings by principals and the teacher's value - added rating in reading (0.56 versus 0.32), though not in math.