Note: Percent adjusted for parental education, child's race, sex, age, and
vocabulary test score in childhood.
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).
Results showed that a greater reported volunteer — student relationship quality predicted greater gains by EC students on passage comprehension and Peabody Picture
Vocabulary Test scores.
Not exact matches
According to people's
scores on multiple - choice
vocabulary tests, most of us don't reach our peak wordsmith - ing abilities until we're in our late 60s or early 70s.
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.
I
scored in the top 4 % on my GRE, but they
test for
vocabulary after high school.
When kids eat breakfast they demonstrate broader
vocabularies, improved memory and faster speed on cognitive
tests, and they
score higher in both reading and math.
A child's success can't be measured in IQ
scores, standardized
tests or
vocabulary quizzes, says author Paul Tough.
Testing confirmed that verbal IQ
scores, which measure
vocabulary and language skills, fell in proportion to the hours of TV the children watched.
Uccelli and Paez found that, on average, first - grade English narrative quality
scores were higher among children who, at kindergarten
scored higher on the English
vocabulary test, used a greater number of distinct words in their English narrative, and had higher story structure
scores on their Spanish narrative.
This strategy should raise their standardized
test scores, since researchers estimate that «85 percent of achievement
test scores are based on the
vocabulary of the standards.»
Those in their seventies nonetheless
scored higher than participants in any other age range on
tests of
vocabulary, a key component of crystallized knowledge.
She attributes the lack of advice to the fact that many teachers are as «stumped» about ways to increase
vocabulary and raise
test scores as she is.
This led me to wonder what I could do to increase my students»
vocabulary, thus producing higher
test scores.»
Tileston, D.) has clearly established that students will achieve higher
scores on standardized
tests if they know the
vocabulary of the standards.
Across all five plays we found that students randomly assigned to see live theater
scored significantly higher than the control students on measures of tolerance and social perspective taking as well as a
test of their knowledge of the play's plot and
vocabulary.
The SAT college admission
test will no longer require a timed essay, will dwell less on fancy
vocabulary, and will return to the familiar 1600 - point
scoring scale in a major overhaul intended to open doors to higher education for students who are now shut out.
Recent assessments of school - based pre-K programs in Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia indicate that they substantially raise children's
vocabulary, math, and reading comprehension
test scores at the end of one year.
For instance, in a study published in 1998, Meredith Phillips and her colleagues reported a raw black - white
test -
score gap of more than one standard deviation in
vocabulary using data sets collected between 1980 and 1987.
In a study tracking children from age 3 through middle school, David Dickinson, now a professor of education at Vanderbilt University, and Catherine Snow, an education professor at Harvard University, found that a child's
score on a
vocabulary test in kindergarten could predict reading comprehension
scores in later grades.
The results, published in 2007 in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, showed that the storytelling students
scored significantly better on
vocabulary and reading «readiness»
tests than the control group.
Combining such collaborative activities with regular doses of the other elements to incidental learning of
vocabulary (reading aloud and independent silent reading) can impact childrens
test scores, their writing, and their motivation and ability to read.
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.
The effect of the multiple exposure
vocabulary method and the target reading / writing strategy of
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.
The effect of the Multiple Exposure
Vocabulary Method and the Target Reading / Writing Strategy on
test scores.
Most important of all, TeenBiz is scientifically proven to accelerate reading comprehension, fluency, writing proficiency,
vocabulary development and high - stakes
test scores.
The point of this example is that knowledge of content and of the
vocabulary acquired through learning about content are fundamental to successful reading comprehension; without broad knowledge, children's reading comprehension will not improve and their
scores on reading comprehension
tests will not budge upwards either.
Students using student - completed graphic organizers outperformed students in researcher - completed and control groups on combined
vocabulary and reading comprehension
scores using the Gates - MacGinitie Reading
test.
Our research - based, classroom -
tested learning program is proven to increase
vocabulary retention
scores by 43 % and increase reading comprehension for ELL students by 46.5 %.
Low - income students generally
score lower on rigorous
tests, especially in subjects other than math, largely because they lack background knowledge and
vocabulary when compared to their more affluent peers.
There appears to be a poverty gradient in children's cognitive
test scores, with those exposed to persistent poverty
scoring approximately 5 to 7 points less in the naming
vocabulary test than those who never experienced poverty.
Nancy Marshall, Ed.D. received funding from Associated Early Care and Education to
score, review, analyze, and report on the Peabody Picture
Vocabulary Test (PVT) and Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) data for the children in family child care homes.