Sentences with phrase «verbal test score»

They found for every 11 conversational turns, a child's verbal test score increased by one point.

Those who watched more TV had lower math and verbal test scores.

Verbal test scores increased only modestly.

The researchers found that the reform had small positive effects on verbal test scores, but no effect on the mean performance in the arithmetic or logical reasoning tests.

Parental education had minor effects on the test performance of the adoptees — statistically significant only for non-Korean adoptees» verbal test scores — but was prominently influential for non-adoptees.

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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.

Results Adjusting for sociodemographics, maternal intelligence, and home environment in linear regression, longer breastfeeding duration was associated with higher Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test score at age 3 years (0.21; 95 % CI, 0.03 - 0.38 points per month breastfed) and with higher intelligence on the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test at age 7 years (0.35; 0.16 - 0.53 verbal points per month breastfed; and 0.29; 0.05 - 0.54 nonverbal points per month breastfed).

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.

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.

Researchers found that people who engaged in more regular sexual activity scored higher on tests that measured their verbal fluency and their ability to visually perceive objects and the spaces between them.

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.

Students who took the SAT once under standard conditions and then requested an accommodation scored 45 and 38 points higher in verbal and math, respectively, when they retook the test with extended time.

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.»

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.

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

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.

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.

Students who score well on the verbal SAT invariably possess a broad vocabulary that represents broad general knowledge - which is hardly surprising, given that the verbal SAT is essentially an advanced vocabulary test.

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.

Good verbal ability should be shown by high test scores, good grades in school, or other measures.

For the teachers that don't teach a subject measured on the test, the state still uses the students verbal and math test scores.

On a verbally administered test, even profoundly dyslexic kids can score high on a verbal section if they are exposed to vocabulary in other ways.

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

But it's harder for parents to stay involved when they work long hours: Young children whose mothers or fathers work more than 40 hours per week score worse on verbal tests than children whose parents work full time.

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 achievement tTest (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 achievement tTest (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 testtest.

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.

University based programs are offered to junior - high - age students who have met a minimum score criterion on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), given in the spring to all students in the system who are at the 95th percentile or higher on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), mathematics or verbal sections.

Consortium and California officials have warned that the initial scores on the Smarter Balanced tests would be lower than on tests based on California's and most states» standards, because the Common Core standards are harder, and the tests, designed to measure critical thinking, problem solving and verbal reasoning, will be harder.

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The verbal response scale tests how coherent speech is following an accident, with scores from 1 to 5.

If you answered 92 % of answers on the Verbal Reasoning Test correctly and the majority of other applicants got 94 % of them right, your score will not be enough to recommend you for the applied position.

A mandatory GMAT test score in the 85th percentile (approximately 640), or a GRE test score of 160 Verbal Reasoning and 163 Quantitative Reasoning.

They also scored significantly lower on the Performance and Verbal Scales and the Verbal Language Development Scale, as well as showed deficits in mathematics and language tests, and in both receptive and expressive language (Augoustinos, 1987; Helm, Newport, Bonsall, Miller & Nemeroff, 2001; Kaplan et al., 1999).

Results highlighted a) through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, a meaningful six - factor model (emotion expression, task utility self - persuasion, help - seeking, negative self - talk, brief attentional relaxation, and dysfunctional avoidance); b) satisfactory internal reliabilities; c) test - retest reliability scores indicative of a satisfactory stability of the measures over time; d) preliminary evidence of convergent and discriminant validity with CERS - M being very weakly linked to verbal skill and moderately to emotion regulation strategies measured through the Flemish version of the COPE - questionnaire; e) preliminary evidence of criterion validity, with CERS - M scores predicting math anxiety, and to a lesser extent, students» performance; f) preliminary evidence of incremental validity, with the CERS - M predicting math anxiety and performance over and above emotion regulation measured by the COPE - questionnaire.

Their scores indicated that the mindfulness group significantly improved on both the verbal GRE test and the working memory capacity test.

This finding is consistent with prior research documenting that children with SB typically score in the low average range on tests of verbal IQ (e.g., Wills, Holmbeck, Dillon, & McLone, 1990).

Results highlighted a) through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, a meaningful six - factor model (emotion expression, task utility self - persuasion, help - seeking, negative self - talk, brief attentional relaxation, and dysfunctional avoidance); b) satisfactory internal reliabilities; c) test - retest reliability scores indicative of a satisfactory stability of the measures over time; d) preliminary evidence of convergent and discriminant validity with CERS - M being very weakly linked to verbal skill and moderately to emotion regulation strategies measured through the Flemish version of the COPE - questionnaire; e) preliminary evidence of criterion validity, with CERS - M scores predicting math anxiety, and to a lesser extent, students» performance; f) preliminary evidence of incremental validity, with the CERS - M predicting math anxiety and performance over and above emotion regulation measured by the COPE - questionnaire.

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.

Total SBST scores ranged between 1.13 and 6.50, were independent of child's age (r =.18, p >.05) and gender (r s = −.03, p >.05) but correlated with verbal IQ at test session 3 (r =.46, p <.001).