Sentences with phrase «tests at their advanced age»

Indeed, he found, the bilingual people in this group performed better than expected on intelligence tests at their advanced age, and showed less relative cognitive decline compared to monolingual people.

Not exact matches

He has often resisted the advances of overseas clubs and rejected speculation as soon as it cropped up, but now at the age of 23 he feels that the time could be right to move abroad and test himself at another level of football.

My son hardly ever got sick, has tested out in schools at advanced level (he is actually a year ahead), is incredibly mature for his age and enjoys a ton of friends (he is now in 10th grade and just turned 14 in April).

New advances in genetic testing mean that children and adults with Usher syndrome are being diagnosed at an earlier age than ever before.

To test the potential benefit of testosterone treatment in men who had low testosterone levels for no other reason than advancing age, Yale researchers collaborated with investigators at 12 institutions, led by the University of Pennsylvania, to conduct the TTrials.

The new test is being used in research programs at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, which employs advanced diagnostic techniques, including genetics, imaging, behavioral assessments, neurology, and neuropsychology to treat people with age - related brain diseases.

Often lost in the discussion of girls» advantages is the reality that boys outperform girls on tests of visual and spatial abilities, and do at least as well on tests of mathematical skills at this age, and these differences widen as they advance in school.

[4] In other words, over 90 percent of those in recent age cohorts are not performing at a reasonably high level on any externally administered, subject - specific examination, a possible explanation for the much lower percentage of US students than students in many other advanced industrial societies who are performing at the «advanced» level on international tests.

Our best estimate, based on the number of passed tests and the average number of tests taken by any one student, is that only 7 percent to 8 percent of the age cohort in 2012 passed at a level necessary to secure an advanced placement in most institutions of higher education.

A few years ago, working with Muñoz, and looking at racial imbalances, Marshall moved about 200 elementary - school - age Latino students into the advanced track in their schools, even though the students had just missed the test score criteria for entry.