Sentence examples for scholastic abilities from inspiring English sources

Early on, I didn't have much confidence in my scholastic abilities, particularly reading.

Early-life risk factors, such as family disruption, maltreatment, and poverty, can negatively impact children's scholastic abilities; however, most previous studies have relied on cross-sectional designs and retrospective measurement.

Relative strengths and weaknesses in cognitive functioning can become visible when children have to acquire specific scholastic abilities in school.

Abnormalities of attention, memory and language skills can have a profound impact on a child's scholastic abilities and their educational attainment.

However most of the work reported was conducted on high school students in the US who are younger than the students in our medical schools and who have a wider range of scholastic abilities.

Mothers were administered the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) (Dunn and Dunn 1981) to assess scholastic abilities at the 6-month visit, and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) (Radloff 1977) at the 12-month visit.

Beginning with the G.I. Bill, college has depended increasingly more on measurable scholastic ability than on the status of wealth or birth.

For example, the time someone stays in school is probably influenced by his innate scholastic ability, but this is very hard to measure.

"In Japan, the scholastic ability of people is not so high right now, and it seems to be decreasing, so I worry about the future of our country," said the teenager, who puts on a sober navy blue uniform and lugs a heavy book bag back and forth to his central Tokyo junior high school each day, including many Saturdays.

His parents and brother in Jacksonville, Fla., his friends and coaches at Florida State University in Tallahassee, his fellow teachers and former students in Fort Myers and his high school classmates and teachers in this town southeast of Cleveland, talked in awe of a young man of extraordinary physical prowess and scholastic ability.

Often derived from a quirk in the environment or in public policy, they affect the outcome (a person's earnings, say, to return to the original example) only through their influence on the input variable (in this case, the number of years of schooling) while at the same time being uncorrelated with what is left out (scholastic ability).