Sentences with phrase «verbal scores»

For those without special accommodations, one finds no gains in verbal scores and just a 0.1 standard deviation gain in math scores over this period of time.

These families experienced statistically significant positive effects on their children's home learning environment and on the child's IQ and verbal scores when compared with families who were not offered services.

Results from global and verbal scores of cognitive tests at military conscription (mandatory for all Swedish men during these years) were compared between three groups (born 1968 — 1976): 746 adoptees born in South Korea, 1548 adoptees born in other non-Western countries and 330 986 non-adopted comparisons in the same birth cohort.

The average verbal score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test hits an all - time low, the College Board reports.

Only two shape patterns contributed to the prediction of achievement: relatively high verbal scores positively predicted reading and math achievement and relatively low scores on the AR subtest negatively predicted math achievement.

Many graduate schools, for example, require Graduate Record Examination verbal scores for humanities and social science programs but not for science and engineering.

The College Entrance Examination Board reports that students pursuing graduate degrees in education had a GRE Verbal score mean of 449 and a mean GRE Quantitative score of 533, for a combined total of 982.

For example, the WISC — III was found to provide only two specific shape patterns that contributed to prediction of achievement: relatively high verbal scores positively predicted both reading and math achievement, and relatively low scores on the AR subtest negatively predicted math achievement.

In 2004, the first full year after flagging was abolished, «special» verbal scores jumped by eight points, the largest one - year gain since such scores were reported.

Good verbal scores diminish the notorious income gap.

Research has shown that math SAT scores improved by 45 points and verbal scores shot up by 53 points when students were involved in extracurricular doings.

While math and verbal scores proved to be an accurate predictor of the students» later accomplishments, adding spatial ability scores significantly increased the accuracy.

Verbal scores on nonstandard administrations of the SAT are up by about 0.2 standard deviation since 1987, a small increase (see Figure 2).

Average SAT verbal scores are the lowest on record — at 497.

Despite the groans of educators wearied by today's emphasis on math and verbal scores, the two topics that headed your wish lists were those very things.

The effect of poverty on the verbal scores of gifted students.

The report said the 71,174 black students taking the 1983 - 84 test raised their mean verbal score to 342, up 3 points over the previous year's level.

But the verbal score was the same as last year, 508, and has registered an increase of only 4 points over the last 10 years.

That's why math scores are more related to each other than they are to verbal scores.

But scores from tests of math ability are more related to one another than they are to verbal scores; the same goes for verbal scores.

Verbal scores are reliable indexes to general competence, life chances, and civic participation.

Am I not remembering correctly that both say math and verbal scores (Hirsch says especially verbal, of course) correlate with things like marital happiness, income, and leadership positions?

Sourcebook simplification and its relation to the decline in SAT - verbal scores.