Sentences with phrase «yield better test scores»

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Gaining a better understanding of what causes the test - score gap is of great importance because eliminating the gap could yield great advances in the well - being of African - Americans.

Criterion - referenced tests are a better tool for measuring mastery, and well - designed and scored performance tasks can yield even richer assessment data.

Schools that yield higher test scores by filtering out lower ones aren't really «good.»

Though the lonely supporters of Pearson will conclude that a reading test taker doesn't have an advantage by using any one given test prep, there a good deal of evidence to indicate that reading comprehension often has more to do with subject knowledge than reading knowledge per se and that, therefore, test prep that provides content is likely to yield higher scores.

Teachers made comments such as, «To gain the highest EVAAS score, drill and kill and memorization yields the best results, as does teaching to the test,» and «When I figured out how to teach to the test, the scores went up,» as well as, «EVAAS leaves room for me to teach to the test and appear successful.»

We scored our desirability ranking based on yield (the percentage of accepted students who enroll), admissions, test scores, endowment, student - to - faculty ratio, retention, as well as climate and the quality of facilities, housing, and dining.

We scored desirability based on yield (the percentage of accepted students who enroll), admissions, test scores, endowment, student - to - faculty ratio, retention, and as well as climate and the quality of facilities, housing, and dining.