Sentences with phrase «to test scores»

It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

The higher the concentration of CO2, the lower the test scores.

According to an independent study done by nonprofit researchers SRI International, students who used Dreambox for four months improved their test scores by about 5 percent.

Personality tests are a «convenient way to categorize people, but they're not the absolute truth,» says Natella, who puts test scores into context by comparing them with the average scores of his best reps.. The bigger test comes when he puts potential salespeople on the phones for two half days to call potential clients.

To be sure, test scores are not a perfect measure of ability or potential to succeed.

The world of education revolves around tests and test scores.

The United States has been falling behind on math and science test scores for decades — and waiting for help from the federal government is almost always a bad idea, no matter who is in office.

Those lackluster test scores have caught the attention of the federal government, and the Trump Administration has proposed $ 200 million in STEM - focused grant funding.

Branson was, and is, dyslexic, a learning disability at least partially responsible for his terrible standardized test scores and below - average grades.

But if test scores and grades were a truer indicator of future success, Branson never would have been able to accomplish such greatness.

We looked at traditional measures of K - 12 education including test scores, class size and spending.

What predicted a leader's success far better than tech skills or test scores, they found, was simply making a human connection with followers, being interested in their lives and careers, and being accessible to them.

Everyone remembers their class valedictorian: perfect grades, perfect test scores and in some cases, perfect hair.

Mean test scores in reading (Programme for International Student Assessment) Mean test scores in science (Programme for International Student Assessment) % of those aged 25 - 64 who have attained tertiary level education Education expense, % of GDP

Not only did eating chocolate immediately boost participants» test scores, the study revealed that eating small amounts of chocolate daily boosted cognitive performance over a long period of time.

«The employees with the highest revenue per hour — an average of $ 208, compared with $ 138 for the full sample — were ambiverts who had a personality test score exactly between extroversion and introversion.»

But the belief, the expectation, colored the teachers» perception and influenced their behavior to be more attentive and caring to the students, thus improving their homework and test scores.

As most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challenges.

Your first impulse would probably be to look at a couple of factors: the average test scores of the schools» current pupils and their socioeconomic background.

Lower average test scores might not be a problem if you can find out that kids are rapidly improving over time, making that cute house in the cheaper part of town not only good for your wallet, but good for your child's education too.

«Don't judge a school by its average test scores or its socioeconomic or racial / ethnic composition.

We look at traditional measures of K — 12 education, including test scores, class size and spending.

A college student who earned a perfect SAT score wants to help others increase their test scores.

Founded in 2011, this education company provides one - on - one online tutoring to help students in grades K - 12 and college improve their grades and test scores.

They had the test scores, grades and pedigrees to prove it in spades.

Farrell notes that colleges and universities tout the successes of their incoming students — test scores, academic achievement, acceptance rates, and the like — but rarely spend the same amount of energy sharing data about job placement and success rates of graduates.

A University of London longitudinal study tested vocabulary skills of the same people at ages 16 and 42 and found at the younger age the average test score was 55 percent.

It's the first thing, other than standardized GMAT test scores, an admissions officer will look at.

Connecticut owes much of its improvement to a big jump in its Education ranking, climbing to No. 3 from No. 18, due largely to better high school test scores.

OECD researchers arrived looking for solutions to Sweden's poor test scores.

Low test scores are common.

While Cassin's GRE score was competitive enough to secure her admission to two top business programs — just shy of 700 — she said one thing she wished she had known was how much your standardized test scores follow you, even after the admissions process.

Many platforms stop sending traffic to one variation to reduce your ad spend, which messes with your test scores.

Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.'s and test scores, but we don't anymore, unless you're just a few years out of school.

One of the things we've seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.'s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand - new college grads, where there's a slight correlation.

Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper on the effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.

When you let the results define you — your talent, your test scores, your weight, your job, your performance, your appearance — you become the victim of a fixed mindset.

«It's ironic — with a group of professionals who have such high credentials,» in terms of graduate and undergraduate degrees and test scores and career ambition, «you would think the odds would be stacked in their favor for success and advancement,» said co-author and Georgetown University professor Laura Morgan Roberts.

Since Joel has started donating money to some of the schools, their progress on student testing scores have heavily increased showing that his money is doing something to help.

Why didn't they entitle the chart with something more positive such as, «Being Asian Can Get You A Lower Mortgage Rate,» or «Although Asians Need Higher Grades And Test Scores To Have The Same Chance To Get Into University, At Least Asians Get To Pay Lower Mortgage Rates,» or «Despite Some Disadvantages Of Being A Minority, You Can Still Get The Best Mortgage Rate Possible,» or «Being A Minority May Make It Easier To Get A Better Rate.»

Applications are considered complete and can be reviewed only after all supporting documents are uploaded on the online application and payment is received; this includes Letter of Intent, Curriculum Vitae, Transcripts, Letters of Reference, Test Scores (GMAT or GRE and TOEFL or other acceptable English Facility Test).

He spearheaded the creation of new teacher evaluations allowing half of a teacher's rating to be based on students» standardized test scores.

To gauge the school's success, it will rely on the data from a variety of indicators the district collects, which include several that go beyond standardized - test scores.

I guess that just means you think you're special enough to your god that prayer would get you to have good test scores, but god will continue to let children around the world starve, get kidnapped, raped, and all sorts of horrific things, but it's a priority that you get good grades.

Putting aside the surprising reemergence of test scores as the preferred standard of performance, I wondered what she would say about Catholic schools.

In fact, the researchers report that «if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide, it could close the gap between white and minority test scores by at least a third, possibly by more than half.»

This ignorance is why our students are scoring lower and lower on test scores every year in comparison to other countries.

It's the reason our test scores are lower than other nations in math and science.

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.

«We will continue to advise companies to be sensitive to student backgrounds and avoid unnecessary distractions that could invalidate test scores and give an inaccurate assessment of how students are doing,» the statement continued.