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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 effect of poverty on the verbal scores of gifted students.

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And impressed parents might engage in verbal and social - media - based word - of - mouth, prompting scores of purchases.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

However, we found no evidence of widening inequalities in child verbal IQ scores owing to the intervention, despite the beneficial effect of the intervention on cognition.

In a convenience sample of 45 children during a 1 - week training workshop provided by child psychologists and psychiatrists, inter-paediatrician agreement was high, with Pearson correlation coefficients of 0.80 (95 % confidence interval: 0.67, 0.89) for vocabulary, 0.72 (0.54, 0.83) for similarities, 0.80 (0.67, 0.89) for block designs and 0.79 (0.66, 0.88) for matrices.16 Since we previously reported that the intervention resulted in significantly higher verbal IQ scores in intention - to - treat analysis, 16 we focused on results for verbal IQ scores in the present study.

Mean verbal IQ scores of children in the lowest maternal education category in the intervention were also substantially higher than those of their counterparts in the control group.

We observed a similar pattern of attenuation for the KBIT - II verbal and nonverbal scores at age 7 years.

We also adjusted for maternal intelligence and the HOME - SF score, as well as numerous other potential confounders, and nevertheless found a substantially stronger association (3.75 points) of ever vs never breastfed with verbal IQ at age 7 years.

Differences in Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test — Second Edition Verbal Scores at Age 7 Years According to Duration of Any Breastfeeding, With Linear Trend Line

People with mild cognitive impairment were defined as those who have a slight decline in cognition, mainly in memory in terms of remembering sequences or organization, and who score lower on tests such as the California Verbal Learning Test, which requires participants to recall a list of related words, such as a shopping list.

In the California Verbal Learning Test, on a scale of 0 to 80, with 80 reflecting the best memory, the healthy participants had an average score of 55.8, whereas those with mild cognitive impairment scored an average of 40.5.

Children who had severely depressed mothers were found to have an average verbal IQ score of 7.30 compared to a score of 7.78 in children without depressed mothers.

«Future IQ assessments of individuals with OCD should focus on verbal and not performance IQ — a score heavily influenced by slowness,» the researchers say.

Compared with those who received no hormone treatment, athletes in the two estrogen treatment groups taken together had significantly better verbal memory and cognitive flexibility scores at the end of six months than their pre-treatment scores, the investigators reported.

After adjusting for maternal IQ and education, characteristics of the home environment, school district, and number of siblings, the children who were exposed to greater than 5 parts arsenic per billion of household well water (WAs ≥ 5 μg / L) showed reductions in Full Scale, Working Memory, Perceptual Reasoning and Verbal Comprehension scores, losses of 5 - 6 points, considered a significant decline, that may translate to problems in school, according to Gail Wasserman, PhD, professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia, and the study's first author.

It was these two sets of tests where participants who engaged in weekly sexual activity scored the most highly, with the verbal fluency tests showing the strongest effect.

Testing confirmed that verbal IQ scores, which measure vocabulary and language skills, fell in proportion to the hours of TV the children watched.

Among veterans with predicted exposure to the Khamisiyah plume, smaller hippocampus volume was correlated with lower scores on a test of verbal learning and memory.

UA researchers considered survey respondents» self - reports of physical health and quality of life, as well as their scores on cognition tests measuring verbal fluency, word recall and delayed word recall.

On a test designed to measure verbal and mathematical reasoning, for instance, men who were 65 to 70 years old at the beginning of the study saw their scores decline by 10 %, on average.

Perhaps not (and let's face it, even the most dedicated Bugs fans will have disagreements on this score) but they are all landmarks in their own way and the selection includes my picks for greatest of all Bugs Bunny cartoons: the hilarious highbrow farce «The Rabbit of Seville» (1950), «Rabbit Fire» (1951), which features the greatest verbal sparring (as well as the most insanely surreal identity swaps) of any Bugs cartoon, and the brilliant Wagner parody «What's Opera, Doc?»

, like uh composer David Arnold's fascinating process of discussing his score - in - progress with the leads, but they are few and far between the verbal tics of man to whom investors have entrusted screenplay duties on many occasions.

Students also scored nearly 0.20 standard deviations higher on the verbal portion of the ACT, were substantially more likely to pass trigonometry and chemistry classes by 11th grade, and earned higher grade point averages (GPAs) after 9th grade.

This will be a huge challenge for students, particularly in high school, as NAEP proficiency is the equivalent of an SAT score in verbal and math of nearly 1200 — or 200 points higher than the average student taking the SAT today achieves.

Thus, in a paper on Pell grants, Jenna Ashley Robinson and Duke Cheston recommend that Pell grant recipients have SAT scores of at least 850 (verbal and math) and a high school GPA of at least 2.5 (between a C and a B).

Must have master's degree in English literature or other academic subject that requires intensive reading, a verbal GRE score of at least 600, and a command of at least one foreign language.

But of the characteristics and attitudinal factors that were measured, «those that bear the highest relationship to pupil achievement are first, the teacher's score on the verbal skills test, and then his educational background — both his own level of education and that of his parents.»

Ohio State University's 19th - ranked business school accepted 25 percent of its applicants, and admitted students had a mean GMAT score of 660, while the university's education school, home to the nation's 2nd - ranked administration program, accepted 44 percent of doctoral applicants, and admitted students had a mean verbal GRE score of 480 (see Figure 1).

Meanwhile, the university's school of education, which housed the nation's 6th - ranked educational administration program, accepted 48 percent of its doctoral applicants, and the admitted students had a mean verbal GRE score of 480.

To be defined as high - achieving, we required that students score in the top 10 percent of test - takers on the College Board's SAT I or the ACT (1,300 math plus verbal on the SAT, 28 on the ACT).

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.

But the verbal gaps remain large, and average scores of 17 - year - olds have even declined.

If teacher - candidates took the SAT after April 1995, they would need to have earned at least 530 out of a possible 800 on each section, mathematics and verbal, and a combined score of at least 1100.

Dr. Leo Klagholz, a commissioner of education in New Jersey in the 1990s, surveyed his state's teacher colleges in the 1980s and found that, for prospective teachers, the verbal and math SAT scores, when combined, were lower than 800 out of a possible score of 1,600.

Other teacher attributes: Recent studies suggest that measures of teachers» academic skills, such as SAT or ACT scores, tests of verbal ability, or the selectivity of the colleges they attended, may predict their effectiveness more accurately than the characteristics discussed above.

Studies have found that graduating from a good college and achieving high scores on tests of verbal aptitude are reasonable, though highly imperfect, indicators of teacher quality.

National reports such as A Nation at Risk noted the failure of schools to provide the nation with a more literate populace as evidenced by allegedly declining verbal SAT scores and less than encouraging results of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessments.

Table 1 presents the mean SAT scores in Verbal and Math, plus the percentage of students eligible for FREE lunch (not Free and Reduced because the negative influence on achievement comes from FREE lunch eligibility), percentage of students who are limited English proficient (LEP) and the percentage of students with special needs for districts located in the A, B, (NJ's poorest communities) and I, J DFG's (NJ's wealthiest communities), plus those for charter schools (denoted by an «R» on the scatter plots).

One out of every two Newark students didn't graduate from high school, and average SAT scores were 311 in verbal and 363 in math.

Much of this feedback is verbal or written, not just scores and numbers.

Must be a Wyoming resident for at least five years; Wyoming high school graduate; score a composite score of 25 on the ACT or a minimum of 1120 on the SAT (verbal and math); enrolled as a full - time student in a teacher preparation program at the University of Wyoming community college.

Some of these tests give only verbal and mathematics scores, while others offer additional subject scores in science and social studies.

Conversely, kids with auditory issues (CAPD / APD) or hearing problems may score lower on the verbal side due to the lack of exposure to language and vocabulary due to their weakness.

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.

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.

Large scale studies show score increases of 38 - 50 points on SAT in verbal and math.

In a study of students selected not on IQ but on mathematical or verbal aptitude, Dauber and Benbow (199012) compared the popularity, peer acceptance and peer interaction of extremely gifted students who had scored 700 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Mathematical) or 630 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Verbal) before age 13 (an achievement placing them at the top 1 in 10,000 among their age - peers) with those of moderately gifted students who scored at the 97th percentile on a grade - level math or verbal achievementverbal aptitude, Dauber and Benbow (199012) compared the popularity, peer acceptance and peer interaction of extremely gifted students who had scored 700 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Mathematical) or 630 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Verbal) before age 13 (an achievement placing them at the top 1 in 10,000 among their age - peers) with those of moderately gifted students who scored at the 97th percentile on a grade - level math or verbal achievementVerbal) before age 13 (an achievement placing them at the top 1 in 10,000 among their age - peers) with those of moderately gifted students who scored at the 97th percentile on a grade - level math or verbal achievementverbal achievement test.

ANCOVA results demonstrated significant differences in verbal, quantitative, nonverbal and reading, mathematics, and writing scores of the cohort group exposed to the computer technologies.

I have posted previously about widespread errors in testing and recent discoveries that testing of nonverbal abilities for children with autism can yield scores signficantly higher than on typical evaluations based on verbal abilities.