SAT scores began dropping in 1963;today,on average,30% of students do not complete high school in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighborhoods.

Although many of Hills dale's students came from wealthy households, by the late 1990 average test scores were sliding and it had earned the unaffectionate nickname (綽號) "Hills jail

Students focused more on test scores.

And scores of online discussion boards have popped up on which people discuss negative experiences tied to too much time on the Web.

At the start of junior high, the math achievement test scores of the students with a growth mind-set were comparable to those of students who displayed a fixed mind-set.

girls studying in a single-sex setting also earn higher scores on their College Board and advanced placement exams than girls who study in coeducational settings.

It produces Science Olympiad winners, classically trained musicians and students with perfect SAT scores.

Researchers in the Netherlands report that children who get more exercise, whether at school or on their own, 26 tend to have higher GPAs and better scores on standardized tests.

Your course load is set, your grades are set, your test scores are set.

Countries with the highest scores tend to be clustered in the West, where gender discrimination is against the law, and equal rights are constitutionally enshrined(神圣化)

Some otherwise high-ranking countries had relatively low scores for political representation.

Some critics blame affirmative action – students admitted with lower test scores and grades from shaky high schools often struggle at elite schools.

At two of these stages, when Obama's success was less than certain, the tests showed a clear difference between the scores of the white and black participants—an average of 12.

In a study analyzing data on thousands of Ohio State freshmen who lived in dorms, he found that black freshmen who came to college with high standardized test scores earned better grades if they had a white roommate — even if the roommate's test scores were low.

Black freshmen with high standardized test scores.

Their test scores rose gradually

For example, in research with 3920 college students, Doctor Snyder and his colleagues found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a more accurate predictor of their college grades, than were their SAT scores or their grade point averages in high school, the two measures most commonly used to predict college performance.

A group of researchers reveal scores of studies that trace the relationship between health and interaction with others.

And they didn't even report the actual test scores in the final paper.

As fifth-graders, children with early attention problems obtained average reading scores at least 3% lower than their contemporaries' and grades at least 8% lower than those of their peers.

Because previous research has shown that people with high intellectual abilities are better at filtering out distractions, researchers believed students with high ACT scores would not show a significant decrease in performance due to their use of digital

But students who surfed the web during class did worse on their exams regardless of their ACT scores, suggesting that even the academically smartest students are harmed when they're distracted in class.

By fifth grade, children with early attention difficulties had lower grades and reading achievement scores than their peers.

Educational outings help bright but disadvantaged students to get better scores in A-level tests.

Lower reading achievement scores and grades in fifth grade contributed to reduced grades in middle school and thereby contributed to a 40% lower high school graduation rate.

Researchers used ACT scores as a measure of intellectual aptitude.

Scores in various well-being measures began to go downward among young Americans in recent years.

Twenge's team's analysis of the answers confirmed the earlier, well-established well-being climb, with scores rising across the 1990s, and into the later 2000s.