Sentences with phrase «time on test scores»

The Educational Records Bureau, a Wellesley, Mass., research and subject - matter testing group for private schools and suburban public schools, will jump into the admission market with an exam promising a better candidate profile, a timed essay, and a 72 - hour turn - around time on test scores, among other features.

I therefore separate the students in my sample by years of age and estimate the effect of start time on test scores separately for each group.

Not exact matches

'' [Besides] saving time, there's no real incentive to cheat on these tests because typically it's just to get a certification of «hours» for internal compliance training, so your score doesn't matter, and if you don't pass, you can take it again.

The bad news is that Kane is now well and truly over his early season struggles in front of goal and has scored four times in his last two Premier League games and got their Europa League opener last night, Hopefully Laurent Koscielny will pass his fitness test because we will need to be at our defensive best on Sunday to cope with the danger of Kane.

On two occasions the fastest testing team hasn't even scored a podium (2009, 2011), three times teams have scored podiums but not managed a victory (2008, 2014, 2016), and only once (2015) has the fastest team in testing actually gone on to win the championshiOn two occasions the fastest testing team hasn't even scored a podium (2009, 2011), three times teams have scored podiums but not managed a victory (2008, 2014, 2016), and only once (2015) has the fastest team in testing actually gone on to win the championshion to win the championship.

It is the first time Wales have scored six since beating San Marino 6 - 0 in 1996, and they will now face either Uruguay or Czech Republic in the final in Nanning on Monday in what will surely be a much sterner test for Giggs» side.

I hope that the adults in their lives are not so harried and stressed; that they have time to build significant relationships with the children and that children are given time to grow and develop based on their own trajectory and not some artificial standardized test score.

At Challenge Success, we believe that our society has become too focused on grades, test scores, and performance, leaving little time for kids to develop the necessary skills to become resilient, ethical, and motivated learners.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

- The Department of Education, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eating choices.

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.

These children score higher on language and comprehension tests by age five, than children whose mothers are not given extra time.

The study found that the players had poorer post-season reaction time and scores on a test of visual attention and task switching, which deficits were associated with greater head impact exposures.

«It seems every time she makes a statement, he follows through with what she has to say,» said Tedisco, who added that while he and Nixon likely disagree on most issues, she is «right» to want to decouple the test scores from the teacher evaluations.

In addition, teachers whose students» test scores are consistently low; those who have failed to secure their teaching certificates on time; those who haven't had a permanent position for six months or more; those who've faced department probes leading to substantiated allegations of misconduct; and those granted an extension regarding tenure could also be dismissed.

Teachers fear they will be evaluated on their pupils» test scores when there wasn't enough time to prepare and teach the new material.

Teachers fear that they will be evaluated on their pupils» test scores when there wasn't enough time to prepare and teach the new material.

Some real - life changes, however, are being made in a number of schools around the country that focus on the critical - thinking skills of one student at a time instead of the collective test scores of a class, or a whole school, or a state.

More than 200 teachers and principals received erroneous scores from the state on a contentious measurement that ties their performance to how well their students do on tests, according to state documents obtained by The New York Times.

The law, which bases as much as 50 percent of teachers» job ratings on student test scores, was strengthened during a time when more rigorous standardized exams, based on the national Common Core academic standards, were being introduced into classrooms.

For a long time, one of the signature elements of Mr. Cuomo's education - reform agenda had been tying teacher evaluations to the test scores students received on state exams.

De Blasio spokesman Dan Levitan wouldn't comment on the possibility of running against Donovan, but cited a record the mayor will run on next year that includes, «crime just hit another all - time low, jobs are at record highs, the city is building and preserving affordable housing at a record pace, while graduation rates and test scores continue to improve.»

The changes made to the state's tests have made it difficult to compare student performance on the assessments over time — a fact that has not stopped the de Blasio administration from publicly celebrating rising scores.

In test results released Friday, 38 % of city students scored proficient in English - a jump of nearly eight percentage points from last year that put the city's scores on par with the state overall for the first time.

That has meant a steady watering down of tests and scoring systems that might expose incompetent teachers — even doing away with time limits on exams.

Included among the proposed reforms is a teacher evaluation system based half on student test scores, an increase in the length of time before a teacher is eligible for tenure and allowing the state to take over failing schools and districts.

The two basic movements in the sitting - rising test — lowering to the floor and standing back up — are each scored on a 1 - to - 5 scale, with one point subtracted each time a hand or knee is used for support and 0.5 points subtracted for loss of balance; this yields a single 10 - point scale.

People who scored fewer than eight points on the test, he found, were twice as likely to die within the next six years compared with those who scored higher; those who scored three or fewer points were more than five times as likely to die within the same period compared with those who scored more than eight points.

None of the subjects had full - blown PTSD at the time of the test; the highest score on the symptom scale, 39, was just below the cutoff for a PTSD diagnosis.

Those who did more light physical activity or had less sedentary time per day had lower pain scores on the conditioned pain modulation test — indicating better pain inhibition.

After recruiting more than 600 cohort members for their study, Ritchie and colleagues tracked their scores on a simple visual task three times over 10 years, repeating the test at the mean ages of 70, 73, and 76.

The researchers then tested their scoring method using data on 688 AML patients in three different clinical trials, In each of these groups, patients with low scores (methylation patterns similar to normal HSCs) had approximately twice the median survival time of patients with high scores.

Dr. Wang explains that the fast turnaround time to measure the LSC17 score on the NanoString system will be key to moving the test into the clinic.

A more complex picture emerges among people who had anesthesia several times as small children: Although their intelligence is comparable, they score modestly lower on tests measuring fine motor skills, and their parents are more likely to report behavioral and learning problems.

Motor dysfunction was evaluated in mThy1 - AS mice using a modification of the established «coat hanger test:» [17] animals were assessed for time to fall when holding on to a suspended vertical metal bar, with additional scoring for the ability to use the hindlimbs to assist (zero, one, or both hindlimbs engaged).

The research focused specifically on cell phone use behind the wheel, and it found that people who scored highest on multitasking tests do not frequently engage in simultaneous driving and cell - phone use — probably because they can better focus on one thing at a time.

Research shows the younger a child begins spending time in front of the screen, the lower they score on language tests, despite being taught language on educational videos or television.

Those who took 100 mg of phosphatidyl serine three times a day, with meals for 12 weeks scored 30 % higher on memory and learning tests.

Students who consumed breakfast tested higher in standardized test scores, were absent less from school and were more on time to class.

Doctoral student Helen Malone has been researching time and learning and says that because this is so new, «there's no rigorous data yet, but what they are finding is that kids are making significant gains on standardized test scores.»

The New York Times reported that the study is the largest to address the controversial «value - added ratings,» which measure the impact individual teachers have on student test scores.

But ever since becoming a federally funded turnaround school in 2010, these meetings have become cherished time for the teachers and, according to Nolan, one of the key reasons their elementary school — once one of the lowest achieving in Boston — has seen significant gains on test scores.

Perhaps it's because white students score higher on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.

Other than the general disconnect between test scores and later life outcomes (in both directions), I notice that the No Excuses charter model that is currently the darling of the ed reform movement and that New York Times columnists have declared as the only type of «Schools that Work» tend not to fare nearly as well in later outcomes as they do on test scores.

We look at the students» scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests in math and reading (ELA) and improvements in those test scores over time.

The schools that agreed to participate in the study included 22 open - enrollment district schools, five oversubscribed charter schools, two exam schools to which students are admitted based on their grades and standardized test scores, and three charter schools that were not oversubscribed at the time the 8th - grade students in our study were admitted.

At a time when the national conversation is focused on lagging upward mobility, it is no surprise that many educators point to poverty as the explanation for mediocre test scores among U.S. students compared to those of students in other countries.

Opened by two teachers in 1994 and named Time magazine's «Elementary School of the Year» in 2001, the school reports that its scores on the Stanford Achievement test have jumped 97 percent since 1997.

We analyzed the test - score improvements made between each student's first 3rd - grade year and the following year on both the state's own accountability exam and the Stanford - 9, a nationally normed exam administered at the same time as the FCAT but not used for accountability purposes.

The reporters provide the reader with a host of mostly misleading state - provided test - score data, because the State of New York mis - constructed the proficiency scales on its statewide tests, thereby rendering interpretation of scores over time virtually impossible.