Sentences with phrase «significantly higher literacy»

Studies have shown that children of wealthier, more educated parents hear far more words and engage in more dialogue than their low - income counterparts almost from birth, and they enter school with significantly higher literacy skills.

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The children in the REDI - P program showed significantly higher retention of literacy and learning skills and sustained improvements in academic performance and social interaction.

In Pakistan, progress of educational indicators have been hampered by a range of issues like negligible budgetary allocations to education, low literacy and enrolment rates, significantly high dropout rates, and acute regional and gender inequalities (Shaikh, 2006).

PISA results show that when students discuss money matters with their parents, they have significantly higher financial literacy skills, even after accounting for differences in socio - economic background and their performance in other subjects.

The results showed that both approaches significantly improved students» literacy skills, but one framework that utilized authentic texts and implemented specific reading strategies did more to improve students» reading comprehension and vocabulary and increase literacy in high school CTE classrooms.

Overall, students with high reading engagement scored significantly above the international average on the combined reading literacy scale, regardless of their family background.

* Recent analyses indicate that environmental factors associated with vocabulary development and emergent literacy skills are already present among children as early as 15 months of age.2 By first grade, unfortunately, the repercussions become all too clear: children from high - income families are likely to know about twice as many words as children from low - income families, putting these children at a significantly higher risk for school failure.3

1) Girls who receive the intervention compared with a control group of girls who do not, will show significantly lower levels of depressive symptoms, body dissatisfaction, unhealthy dietary restraint, bulimic symptoms, internalisation of the thin ideal, body comparison, appearance conversations, expectancies of thinness, and higher media literacy and self - esteem;