Sentences with phrase «skills than their peers»

Some children this age may experience sudden growth earlier than others, and some may have stronger motor skills than their peers.

Children whose parents are more educated and have better jobs and higher incomes tend to have stronger math and reading skills than their peers.

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

Fifth graders in schools where teachers faithfully used the Responsive Classroom teaching approach performed better on statewide assessments of mathematics and reading skills than their peers at schools that did not use the social - emotional - learning program's strategies as much, according to new research presented at a national conference here last week.

Many children enter school with less developed language, motor and social skills than their peers.

A US Department of Education analysis of results from the 2011 national reading tests shows that Virginia students have larger vocabularies and stronger passage - comprehension skills than their peers nationwide.

There is no reason to believe that 11th - graders today are any less skilled than their peers who took the HSPA last year or who took the NAEP in 2013, but there are plenty of reasons to believe that a drop in scores on PARCC will be exploited for political purposes.

The results are even more staggering for low - income students, students with disabilities, and English Language Learners, who often enter elementary school with fewer pre-literacy skills than their peers.

December 16, 2014 - Students attending voluntary, school district - led summer learning programs entered school in the fall with stronger mathematics skills than their peers who did not attend the programs, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

A 2012 study by the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, found that children who attend Head Start make important gains during the program and enter kindergarten with better cognitive and socioemotional skills than their peers who do not attend the program.

Recent studies found that children who attend ECEAP have stronger kindergarten entry skills than their peers, and their success persists with higher math and reading scores in third, fourth and fifth grades.

Not exact matches

That actually works, too, because Minuum's prediction and autocorrecting skills are much more aggressive than most of its peers.

That player would be able to get into cardiovascular shape more quickly than his peers; knowing that would allow him to spend more of the off - season focusing on skills training.

Also of note is the finding that the best performing young footballers who will go on to play the sport professionally display superior dribbling skills, endurance capacity and tactical awareness compared to their peers, from as early as 14 years of age.9 17 These differences appear well before it is possible to accumulate 10 000 h of practice, but allow predictions of which players will go on to achieve best performances in adulthood, suggesting that the effectiveness of and response to training, rather than simply training, determines success.

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

An early - reading child may have poorer co-ordination or motor skills than his more active peers.

The idea is that your child sees this older, «cooler» kid focusing on school work and learns organization and focusing skills from a peer, rather than a parent.

They may compare themselves to their peers by saying, «He is better at drawing than I am» or «She is a better soccer player,» so it's important to teach your child that with practice and effort, she can improve her skills.

Years of research have shown that babies who use sign language develop verbal language skills sooner than their peers and develop a comparably larger vocabulary.

If a woman is pregnant, not only can substance abuse lead to a baby being born addicted to a substance, but baby can grow up suffering developmental delays with speech, learning skills, and be smaller than their peers.

Play with other children is especially important because children learn these large motor skills better from peers than adult instruction.

Ok, that's a very generous salary, but his peer group in the private sector are doing so much better than him, and he's gained all the skills and experience that make him very employable outside.

Children with poor motor performance at the school entry were found to have poorer reading and arithmetic skills than their better performing peers during the first three years of school.

He published more than 20 papers in peer - reviewed journals and won additional funding from KAUST in internal competitions designed to keep faculty members» grant - writing skills sharp.

Overall, the researchers report, students who learned metacognition skills scored around 4 percent higher on the final exam than their peers in the control section.

Now, a study that used noninvasive brain imaging to evaluate brain activity has found that simulator - trained medical students successfully transferred those skills to operating on cadavers and were faster than peers who had no simulator training.

The results suggest a need to study whether motor skills in older adults with autism decline more sharply than in their typical peers, she says.

However, even though an adolescent with good language and cognitive skills may experiment with drinking earlier than his / her less advanced peer, better verbal and intellectual abilities have [also] been found to be protective against developing severe problems with alcohol and other substances in adulthood.»

«We believe that the early superiority in the reading skills of the children who were screened may have enabled them to read more demanding material more frequently than their peers with later confirmed hearing difficulties, thus increasing the skill gap between the two groups.

And, in a genre that more often than not fetishizes or demeans its female characters, Saulnier crafts immensely enjoyable roles for two underrated (or sometimes underutilized) female performers, Alia Shawkat and Imogen Poots, women whose survival skills outmatch the wits of male peers.

Over the last 30 years, a large body of work has shown that children who are skilled at recognizing feelings, dealing with conflict, and exercising self - control are more likely than peers to succeed in school and to do well in life.

Neglected children are less likely to graduate from high school and more likely to have poorer reading skills than their cared - for peers.

Conversely, children from richer backgrounds with higher reading skills at the same age, will tend to earn ten per cent more than their peers.

ELs with strong native language skills are more likely to achieve parity with native - English - speaking peers than are those with weak native - language skills.

If the child's work habits or ability to sustain attention or fine motor skills are less advanced than those of his peers because he is younger, parents fear that the child will be left behind.

This study shows that students who attended schools where less than 25 per cent of their peers have literacy skills when they start school achieved significantly lower, on average, than students who attend schools where greater proportions of their peers begin formal schooling equipped with literacy skills.

Among a subgroup of students who entered school with below - average alphabet skills and ability to sound out words, those who participated in SFA for three years performed significantly better than peers whose schools were not in the program on tests of phonics skills, word recognition, and reading fluency.

Second graders who had participated in the SFA program for three years significantly outperformed their peers who were not in the program on a measure of phonics skills, but on average did not perform better than the control group in reading fluency or comprehension.

Specifically, at age 14 months, children from higher - SES families are gesturing more than their lower - SES peers, and this gesture use is related to later vocabulary skill (Rowe & GoldinMeadow).

While millennials in the U.S. have attended more years of school than previous generations, their skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving are lower than those of previous generations and of their peers in other nations.

The study, which tracked nearly 1,000 native English - and ESL - speaking children immersed in mainstream English classrooms in Canada from kindergarten to second grade, found that by the end of second grade, the ESL children had attained reading skills that were similar to, and in some cases better than, their native English - speaking peers.

It is no coincidence then that research has shown students who spend their full K — 12 education career in public schools in states that require collective bargaining with teachers unions earn less money, work fewer hours, are more likely to be unemployed, and are more likely to be employed in lower - skilled jobs than are their peers in states without collective bargaining laws.

In fact, I believe low - income students who have fewer opportunities outside of school need integrated learning that builds academic, social, and emotional skills even more than their more affluent peers.

As in English, Spanish speakers with reading disabilities consistenlty display poorer phonological awareness skills and use a phonological strategy (sounding out) less often than their non-disabled peers.

If they leave their English Language Learner (ELL) programs with strong English skills and do so before they enter ninth grade, their graduation rates are slightly higher than their native English - speaking peers.

Students who completed social - emotional learning interventions fared better than their peers who didn't participate on a variety of indicators — including academic performance, social skills, and avoiding negative behaviors like drug use, finds the analysis, which examined follow - up data from dozens of published studies on specific interventions.

The inequalities of the national digital divide are well known — English language learners (ELLs) are far less likely to have computers and Internet access at home than their mainstream peers, and they are much less likely to have access to online technology beyond drill - and - skill testing programs in their schools.

These roles may include, for example: team leader, who takes responsibility for team and student growth; reach teacher, who takes responsibility for larger - than - average student loads with the help of paraprofessionals; master educator, who develops and leads professional development and learning; peer evaluator, an accomplished educator who coaches other teachers, assesses teachers» effectiveness, and helps his or her colleagues improve their skills; and demonstration teacher, who models excellent teaching for teachers in training.11 According to the Aspen Institute and Leading Educators — a nonprofit organization that partners with schools and districts to promote teacher leadership — teacher leaders can model best practices, observe and coach other teachers, lead teacher teams, and participate in the selection and induction of new teachers.12

Students of National Board Certified Teachers learn up to two months more than their peers, with an even greater impact for students of color and low - income children.54 A career continuum supported by a system of meaningful professional learning would put teaching more on par with other modernized professions such as medicine, engineering, and architecture.55 Such a continuum should support every teacher to aim for accomplished practice from the start of their career, to work in school - based teams to demonstrate and improve their knowledge and skills, and to expand their impact as accomplished teachers through a variety of leadership roles, which would allow them to continue teaching students.

Additionally, requiring attendance when age eligible circumvents redshirting, the practice of holding a child back a year so he / she enters kindergarten about a year older than peers and, presumably, more advantaged in skills (for more information on redshirting, see statement # 10).