Sentences with phrase «than test scores of»

Due to the attrition and replacement of students during the course of middle school, however, KIPP's eighth - grade students had pre-KIPP test scores that were about 6 to 7 percentile points higher than the test scores of students in district schools.

Not exact matches

Microsoft and the China University of Technology and Science taught a computer network how to take an IQ test, and it scored better than a college postgraduate.

U.S. teens scored a mean 492 on the OECD test, eight points below the overall global mean of 500 — and more than 100 points below first - ranked Shanghai - China's 603.

So were the average GMAT scores of its entering classes, which tended to range near 600, more than 100 points below the best schools, which typically report scores in the 700 - plus range on an entrance test where the highest possible score is 800.

In the next round of tests, the participants in the group that had been deceptive scored 20 percent lower than the team that did not.

«Those told they'd slept better scored higher on tests of attention and memory than those told they'd slept poorly.»

It found that children of American homeowners scored no better on math and reading tests than renters» kids, nor did they have lower high - school dropout rates.

Judge and co-author John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the Warrington College of Business looked at data collected as part of a multi-decade study that followed more than 1,500 California children who had scored high on intelligence tests.

The median GMAT score for its latest entering class of 710 is pretty darn impressive, considering that most of these students haven't taken a standardized test in more than 15 years.

All over the world, Blacks consistently score lower on IQ test than Whites or Asians regardless of income level, education, national origin, etc..

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.

I think that a college religion course better prepares a person for a high score on this test than being a communicant of any religion, if the diversity of the questions are similar to the ten question quiz.

A recent religious test showed that agnostics and atheists scored much higher on knowledge of the Bible than Christians did and had more education on average.

I suspect our teacher unions would not be adverse to let some portion of their member teachers compensation be based on a test score bonus rather than the meddling of school boards.

There were many delicious Greek yoghurts on test, but the following three products came out on top, achieving overall scores of more than 80 %.

The hottest variety tested was a chocolate habanero with a rating of more than 300,000 Scoville Units, a very high score.

The scores were lower than normal for a national championship and that made some upset, but it was a perfect modern test that rewarded all styles of play, so long as those styles were played well.

There's no bigger test of their defence right now than a game against Chelsea, who are scoring goals for fun, especially at the Bridge.

Toni Kroos has been the player of the tournament so far, Manuel Neuer has barely been tested and Mario Gómez looked much sharper versus Slovakia than in his first start against Northern Ireland, but he scored in both regardless.

A high school student's GPA, researchers have found, is a better predictor of her likelihood to graduate from college than her scores on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.

Remarkably, Jackson found that this simple noncognitive proxy was a better predictor than a student's test scores of whether the student would attend college, a better predictor of adult wages, and a better predictor of future arrests.

Children who were breastfed for any amount of time scored higher on the cognitive, receptive communication and fine motor portions of the test than children who weren't breastfed.

In most studies, breastfed kids score on average three to five points higher on IQ tests than formula babies, regardless of PUFAs they consume, which Willatts said can't easily be explained.

Breastfed babies score an average of 6 points higher on IQ tests than formula fed babies.

For instance, one study of 36 middle - class mothers and their three - year - olds found that securely - attached children scored 12 points higher on the Stanford - Binet intelligence test than did insecurely attached children (Crandell and Hobson 1999).

Winners are chosen from a pool of more than 15,000 finalists based on test scores, academic record and an essay.

Patients who underwent timed intrauterine insemination after the Cap - Score Test had a higher chance of pregnancy than under other treatment regimens for unexplained infertility.

The reason is that having your child tested can give you quite a bit of information, more than an IQ score.

This is in contrast to the usual ranking of schools by test score averages, which is more of an indication of how affluent the parents are than of how good the school is.

Last school year, more than 4,600 CPS students scored below the 24th percentile on a portion of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test and were required to attend summer school before moving to the next grade level.

Researchers have found that children aged 3, who as premature babies have several episodes of apnea and bradycardia, have lower scores in developmental tests than their peers.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

He concluded that traits such as perseverance and self - control were better predictors of success than intelligence and high test scores.

Concussed athletes on average completed the King - Devick test 4.8 seconds longer than their baseline score, whereas non-concussed athletes improved their score by an average of 1.9 seconds.

RESULTS Children breast fed for less than 3 months had an increased risk, compared to children breast fed for at least 6 months, of a test score below the median value of MDI at 13 months and of WPPSI - R at 5 years.

Odds ratio (OR) was calculated and used as an estimate of the relative risk of getting a low test score among children who had been breast fed less than three months, compared to children who had been breast fed at least six months.

Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

«The success of these new schools... is clear,» Bloomberg said, arguing that they have higher graduation rates, state test scores and parent satisfaction survey scores than the schools they replaced.

At least going by his rhetoric, he seems to have almost declared war on the teacher unions and he has proposed a new system of evaluation, which is more heavily based on students» tests scores than the one currently in use.

The Legislature today, led by the Assembly, reached an agreement on a package of education proposals that will immediately increase state aid to schools, provide that teachers are evaluated on more than a single student test score and ensure local oversight of struggling schools,» United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said.

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

Hofstra University is joining the growing ranks of campuses across the country that are making the SAT and ACT optional rather than requiring students to submit scores from those admissions tests when they apply.

The Utica City School District received more than $ 4 million from the state to increase the number of hours kids are in school during the year, in an effort to increase the district's Common Core test scores.

«To deny New York City's 1.1 million students anything less than the full preservation of mayoral control is to subject them to the dysfunction and chaos of the old system, as well as risk an end to higher test scores and graduation rates.

Does anyone recall that the Governor came in at the last minute of the SED regulation development process on teacher evaluations and asked the Regents for changes in the proposed regulations to include greater emphasis on test scores than the original legislation prescribed?

Always remember, when given a test of their knowledge of current events regular viewers of Faux News scored lower than folks who did not read a newspaper — or watch any TV news.

Some appear to be turned off by reports of Success suspension rates far higher than district schools» and the extreme focus on performing well on test scores.

Governor Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers should consider lowering the stakes in order to account for the flawed rollout of the Common Core standards in New York, rather than removing the test scores from the ratings altogether, King said.

The latest round of state standardized academic test scores showed gains both across New York State and locally.But rather than celebrate the largest bump since New York adopted new tests tied to the Common Core Learning Standards, education officials reported the increases with caution.

On this test of closeness, Cameron and Miliband score significantly better than Clegg — though none score particularly well.