Sentences with phrase «major changes to the test»

Major changes to the test include incorporating more relevant words such as «empirical» — which the Common Core State standards call «academic vocabulary» — instead of the traditional «SAT words» such as «sagacious;» including an evidence - based reading section; narrowing the focus on math topics to allow for deeper knowledge testing; and eliminating the previous penalty for wrong answers.

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No major change was made to Electron's hardware between the tests.

The Federal Reserve has decided to rescind a technical change in the way it calculates the CCAR stress testing calculations for large banking organizations, a decision that averts a major increase...

While the current test requires proof of an anti-competitive purpose or intent, with the changes, a small business would only have to show that the effect, not the purpose of a decision by a corporation such as a major supermarket, would be to eliminate competition.

According to a microbiology professor who has tested shopping carts in major markets, they're dirtier than public restrooms, diaper - changing tables, chair armrests and playground equipment.

Situations like this is why longitudinal testing over time is important when considering making major changes to your digital program.

An overhaul of federal education law moving through Congress — the biggest legislative change in 14 years — holds the prospect of a major shift in New York's contentious debate over the linkage of student test scores to teachers» job evaluations.

After the Wenchuan quake, researchers immediately began calculating stress changes on the major faults surrounding the rupture zone, in part to identify where dangerous aftershocks might occur and to test how well these stress change calculations might work to predict new earthquakes.

A major test of the world's willingness to phase out greenhouse gases will arrive in December, when nations gather in Paris to try to agree on what to do about climate change.

He offered her a job testing a CCD chip (that is, taking pictures of a blank wall in his basement laboratory) so she accepted the opportunity and changed her major to physics, having no real idea of what she was getting herself into!

One major change is the recommendation to test for alterations to the gene ROS1 in all cases of lung adenocarcinoma, which make up about half of all cases of non-small cell lung cancer.

If I can get through an hour and a half sweat session without stink on a doubled - up application day, I then allow myself to just change clothes and go to class the next day without doing a touch up — that's the major test.

I started having gi symptoms last summer (fairly major change in bm), went through three different doctors and two specialists, and finally they decided to test for celiac.

Ps my latest blood test shows great improvement in T3 conversion and I said to my doctor «that would be my salted ORange juice» she gave me a strange look, but the only major change in diet.?

Tracking your blood sugar test results daily in a log will enable you to spot any major changes.

While we waited on test results, she encouraged me to try some major changes in my diet and she was 100 % right - it was a huge help.

I've already had testing to better understand my health susceptibilities and what lifestyle changes I can make to prevent major challenges in the years to come.

Feedback on the resulting selection of big ideas has not pointed to a need for major changes but rather that it has stood the test of informal peer review.

As a result, it has been difficult for observers to determine which factor or group of factors was most responsible for these gains: a revised and strengthened licensing system; revised or new licensure tests; the use of first - rate standards in most classrooms, in annual state student tests, and in the professional development programs all teachers took for license renewal; and / or the major changes in K - 12 governance and finance introduced by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

Another change Alexander could pursue is a major reform to NCLB's oft - criticized standardized testing requirements.

The Education Roundtable on Monday recommended major changes to next year's ISTEP + exam as part of a plan to maintain the state's No Child Left Behind waiver, as well as major changes to a brand new test starting in 2015 - 2016.

«The most notable stressors revealed by the survey are the time devoted to testing, changing demands from outside the classroom, and teachers» perceptions that they lack a voice in major decisions.»

New York instituted CC tests in 2013 and did not do comparability from old to new and when they released results (roughly the same «declines» as Kentucky) they were not able to explain the changes to their publics, resulting in major negative publicity.

No report cards were issued last year due to upheaval in the state's standardized testing program, and major changes ordered by the state Legislature render comparisons to prior years invalid, according to DPI.

The District has made a good faith effort to implement the 2007 law that placed public schools under mayoral control, but there is no evidence that the change in governance has been a factor in improved standardized test scores, according to the first major independent study of D.C. school reform.

Through multiple changes to the state code, New Jersey has raised the GPA entrance and exit requirements for potential teachers, raised the entrance exam requirements for teacher education so that only the top third of test takers can become education majors without passing additional examinations, has added the Pearson administered edTPA performance assessment on top of the PRAXIS II examination as an exit requirement, and has expanded student teaching into a full year experience.

«Change brought about by the advent of Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) in Europe is one of the major challenges confronting European brands in this market, but we were able to take advantage of this situation to improve the best - selling car of its type,» said VW's Australian marketing manager, Ben Wilks.

The camouflage is on pretty strong so it is kind of hard to tell if there major changes to the design but as the company starts to get into the later phases of testing, we can expect more camouflage to come off the car.

While that display foible is a major one — a tablet is essentially one big screen, after all — it doesn't change the fact that the SlateBook 10 x2 turned in the fastest scores we've seen to date for an Android tablet on nearly all of our benchmark tests.

My female dachshunds statted bleeding lastnight I took her to the vet first thing theey did a pancreatitis test fecal parvo test and thryroid because she was overweight her theyroid was out of whack so they put her on meds and perscription food they also cleaned her anal glands because she scoots her bloody stool was caused by strrss we recently added a new pup and the vet said most dodsons do nt do well with change and recommend that we do nt keepbthe pup we kept the pup one night before buying so we could see how theyd act so we couldnt get pup vet said he gave abntibiotics for her inflamed anal glands and told us to hive 1/4 tsp of peptop since shes 12 lb it was nothing major causing her to bleed but better safe than sorry take your furbaby tobthe vet if u caby afford it try and find lowcost or one to set up payments or apply for care credit we use banfield animal hosoital very low cost and grrat sorry for typos phones freezing

When laboratory testing is performed, detected changes are often of little clinical relevance and do not prompt major changes to be made to the anaesthetic technique.»

The PUBG Patch 10 is also in the test servers, with one of the major changes included being the changes to the game's dreaded Blue Zone.

Keystone XL will be the Obama administration's a major test of its newly re-articulated commitment to taking action on climate change.

Its publication coincides with a major gathering this week of energy chiefs at the IHS - CERAWeek conference in Houston, Texas, and as oil companies back or prepare to support shareholder resolutions that test company resilience to climate change.

Dear Nir Shaviv, I would be glad to receive your comment about the recent paper from Andrew C. Overholt et al 2009 ApJ 705 L101 - L103 doi: 10.1088 / 0004 - 637X / 705 / 2 / L101 TESTING THE LINK BETWEEN TERRESTRIAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND GALA Does it mean - the spiral arm mechanism you suggest does nt fit - can some other mechanism explain your measurements and hypothesis - does this have an impact on the cosmic ray climate theory or not If we talk about the paradox of the faint young sun, imho its still an issue that any mechanism solving the problem of the major ice ages occuring each 140 million years in the last billion, does nt work for the first 3 billion years.

According to the research team, three out of five moss bank cores they tested showed major biological changes in the last half century.

Major International Environmental Agreements: A party to the Antarctic - Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution and Wetlands.

Major International Environmental Agreements: A party to Conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands and Whaling.

Major International Environmental Agreements: A party to Conventions on Air Pollution, Air Pollution - Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution - Sulphur 85, Antarctic - Environmental Protocol, Antarctic - Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands and Whaling.

We are very active in the WordPress and WooCommerce development communities and do everything we can to test new versions before they are released so we can make an update available to address any major changes or problems.

The supermarket employer wanted to make major changes to basic terms and conditions for a large section of staff; 9,330 employees agreed but 8,700 did not and a test case was brought on their behalf to challenge the employer's decision to go ahead and impose the changes.

This is build 17639 for Windows Insiders on the «skip ahead» program — in other words, those testing changes for the major update that follows the one due to deploy this month — and most of the tweaks revolve around Microsoft's big new idea of Sets.

No changelog has been released by Google, so you can use the comments field below in order to list some major changes that you've noticed after testing the Android 5.0.1 firmware on your Nexus 4.

Microsoft doesn't like to talk about the inner workings of its anti-piracy software, but it's clear from testing that Windows 10 included a major change in the way activation works.

Like the first Redstone 3 build Microsoft rolled out last week, today's PC test build does not include any major new features or changes, as Microsoft is continuing to do work under the hood on OneCore with code refactoring in preparation for check ins of new code.

Secret Conversations is in testing with a small number of Messenger users right now, but providing that test goes well and Facebook doesn't need to make any major changes, we can all expect to see it inside the Messenger app soon.

Support Laboratory Information System IT team in system testing for upgrades and major system changes with entering codes and canned messages in to the new system