Sentences with phrase «spelling test scores»

For students as a whole, the overall effects of the Tulsa pre-K program are: a 52 percent gain in the Letter - Word Identification test score; a 27 percent gain in the spelling test score; and a 21 percent gain in the applied problems test score.

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And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

Boys who were mainly breastfed for at least six months scored 9 per cent higher in mathematics and writing tests, 7 per cent higher in spelling, and 6 per cent higher in reading, compared with boys fed with formula milk or breastfed for shorter periods.

Scores on standardized tests of academic areas such as reading, spelling, and math were analyzed.

The government had previously raised the bar on test scores by introducing higher floor standards, banning calculators for maths tests and introducing a spelling, punctuation and grammar test.

«I also have the option of giving bonus money to students who do something exceptional, such as getting a perfect score on a spelling test,» Finn explained.

A bipartisan group of House education leaders signed a letter to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings that raises concerns over why the test scores of some students are apparently not being counted under the No Child Left Behind Act.

After almost five years, the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act already has made a significant impact on U.S. schools, based on improved test scores and a narrowing of the achievement gap, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

Spellings: We'll be looking to see which states are making real progress raising test scores and closing the achievement gap.

In the detailed analysis, we are primarily interested in two main outcome measures: the percentage of children reaching the expected standard for their age in English, («level 4» which takes account of tests in reading, writing, and spelling) and the percentile score in the reading test (as low standards in reading were of particular concern).

With improved educational materials readily available, home schoolers are winning spelling and geography bees, scoring off the charts on statewide tests, and gaining access to elite colleges.

From IBM's test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades.

Proponents of the Common Core should put aside nationwide implementation and instead establish an independent governance board that has the authority to update the standards, determine acceptable tests, set passing scores, and spell out technology requirements and acceptable testing conditions.

Achievement tests that measure oral reading, word identification, word decoding, and rote spelling yield relatively higher scores than measures of reading comprehension.

RESULTS: Combined effect sizes show that very preterm and / or VLBW children score 0.60 SD lower on mathematics tests, 0.48 SD on reading tests, and 0.76 SD on spelling tests than term - born peers.